Over Sea, Under Stone

This book by Susan Cooper is the first to the series "The Dark is Rising." Unlike the rest of the world, I am not one who usually likes to read series. I guess I'm just enough ADD that I like to mix it up and read something totally different than the book I just finished. However, the other books in this series are supposed to be really great so I guess I will read them, I just need a break in between. Anyway, about the book, it has been compared to "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," but honestly the only similarities are the British children who are staying in an old house with a strange uncle, who are bored on a rainy day so they decide to explore the house and find a mystery hidden behind an old wardrobe. Okay, so I know that sounds exactly like "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," but that is where the similarities stop. Although this story is really just your basic kids-save-the-world-by-singlehandedly-fighting-all-the-bad-guys, I enjoyed it's quaintness and the fact that it was well written if not all believable. I have high hope for the next book in the series which is "The Dark is Rising" and is a Newberry Honor winner.