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The deaths of all we are by L. Deni Colter

morarwen's review

5.0

Arthurian retellings are not exactly rare, but what I loved about this one is the way the characters are slanted ever so slightly different to their usual portrayals. Ywain and the Black Knight are not as noble or brutish, respectively, as canon would have them. Laudine is a golden mediocrity, the literal means to an end. Luned, on the other hand, is a lot more than a crafty servant. The world we see through her eyes is saturated with old magic, and her end (which she does not escape, unlike in canon) comes as an apotheosis. Brilliant.