The Castle of Llyr

In my opinion, the weakest book of the quintet.

Prince Rhun makes his first appearance of the series (positive), as does Glew (negative). I thought Glew was annoying, and Spoilerreally, does he play any significant role in the series? Other than being a whiny, self-indulgent nuisance? thus, the fact that much of the story revolves around Glew's unfortunate predicament means that I found this title to be a lesser counterpart to the other four books in the series.

Furthermore, I thought the pace of the story fell off from the previous books, Spoilersave the final showdown between “our companions” and Magg, Achren & Co. and this further detracted from the tale. Of course, as this is one within the series, it is a necessary piece to the overall story of Prydain, and in this regard, as the middle book, it sets up the latter half of the adventure nicely.