The Crystal Cave

I actually read this book first when I was 11 or 12 and would have rated it a 5 with that self. When I was a girl I was lucky enough to be a tomboy and have male figures in my life who taught me the things I would later realize were traditionally "guy stuff". I remembered this book with a mystical f......more

5 enthusiastic stars! "The first memory of all is dark and fireshot. It is not my own memory, but later you will understand how I know these things. You would call it not memory so much as a dream of the past, something in the blood, something recalled from him, it may be, while he still bore me in h......more

This has been on my shelf for so many years, why did I wait so long I loved it! Most likely will get the rest of the 'series' ✨ It flows so classically and I fell right in with this book x......more

The Crystal Cave is a lush, detailed historical fantasy about Merlin the magician, from his boyhood through when he was a young man (before Arthur comes on the scene). It's well written and richly imagined but the pace is rather slow, or "deliberate" if I'm being nice. So I've been having some issues......more

I love Mary Stewart's work. She always mixes the right amount of supernatural and realism, and here is no exception. Throw out your previous ideas of Merlin, Arthur, and Magic. Here's something a little more Organic. In her Arthurian Saga, Stewart mixes historical figures with figures of myth in a......more