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The Dark Is Rising
The Dark is Rising series is my favorite book series. I consider it to be the archetype of which modern day writers refer to. When I found out they had made a movie out of the second book I was ecstatic. I thought, key word thought, it was going to be a great movie. I was very wrong.
The second book is titled The Dark is Rising and it’s about a young boy named Will Stanton. Will is the seventh son of a seventh son and he has a prophecy written about him. On his 11th birthday he finds out the he is going to be the last one ever. By last one I am referring to a group called the old ones who are a group similar to king Arthur’s round table. The old ones are the light side and they stand to protect the world from the dark side. The old ones also

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