A review by serafim
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart

3.0

bit too christian for my tastes, also suffering a liiittle bit from gender essentialism at times but very minor really. very very grounded take on merlin's magic which is pretty cool, but on the downside the man himself has a rather boring personality, i barely care about him. the back half focuses more on large-scale conflicts without much of a personal stake for merlin, which i wasn't very invested in; despite his blandness i am still more interested in him than in how precisely ambrosius conquered britain