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3.26 AVERAGE
3.26 AVERAGE
How is it possible to make the relationships between Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot so boring? Reading this just made me want to reread The Mists of Avalon or rewatch Camelot.
This was terrible. All the characters were one-dimensional. Arthur and Guenevere fall in love at first sight. Lancelot and Guenevere fall in love at first sight. All the drama came from every character being prone to severe bouts of hysteria.
Oh, and the author not only had Arthur pull the sword from the stone, but he also received Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake AND had his magic scabbard too. Good grief!
Oh, and the author not only had Arthur pull the sword from the stone, but he also received Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake AND had his magic scabbard too. Good grief!
This was an enjoyable book and I will finish the trilogy. I enjoyed that the author set up Guenevere as a Queen in her own right rather than just a princess in an ivory tower. The matriarchal society she grew up in is interesting but I feel that the author really disconnected her from it and weakened her character turning her back into the damsel-in-distress seen in most renditions of the story.
Good retelling of Arthurian legend, but could get heavy-handed and was less concerned with historical accuracy.
Not going to lie. This was hard to get through. I didn't even finish it, I stopped at the part after Guenevere is kidnapped, and Lancelot and her have sex, but I can't remember the scene where I absolutely stopped. Uuuuuuugh, where to begin. The writing was okay, the world build up was interesting, the characters are the worst. Soooooo flaaaaaaat. The religion building was difficult, mostly because of the abject, onesidedness of it all (yes, I know it's not a real word). I think where I lost it was the part where Guenevere get's kidnapped by the order of the crazy cast asides of the former Summer Queens (that whole scene was just gross). Miles is clearly influenced and inspired by the goddess centralism of Wicca, and it is a fascinating concept; what would an ancient society look like, where is was primarily female dominant? However, the way it was gone about just came off as....icky. The Queens of the Summerland are supposed to be powerful, inspire the love of their knights to protect and honor and obey, but the way that Guenevere portrays this, just shows the problems with such a society, and I'm getting the feeling that that wasn't how Miles had intended it. It's like Egalia's Daughters, without the intent. The rapid rise of Christianity, as it is depicted, I think was to supposed to be the negativity of maleness against the positive of femaleness. It's supposed to show the rising corruption of Christianity, and the way that men in this book are portrayed is just....insulting. Yes, most men suck, but these men, espeically the ones in Gunevere's life, are just so fucked up. Each of the men she deals with, in some way, have been fucked over by goddess culture in this story, whether they are cast aside as lovers, treated as lesser, or just outright abused. It's not really easy to side with our female protagonist, or with the women in general, when they treat men, the way that the men are supposed to treat the women, much later. Anyway, that was long enough, so I'm just going to stop there.