LKBM reviewed The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (The Dark is Rising Sequence, #2)
On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old …
Review of 'The Dark is Rising' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
This felt like a low-detail story about an old, sacred mythology, which is great, except it also needs characters with agency, and maybe a plot. Will has no agency--things happen to him and the world around him, and occasionally he knows what to do because Old Ones have Knowledge, but there's no decision making in order to address obstacles. Similarly, the plot feels preordained. It has no agency in its shaping. This is just How Things Go in the old story.
I recall liking it as a kid, but never being super into it. That's sort of how I feel now, but I like it less.