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A review by moholub
Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee
4.0
How do the Knights of the Round Table handle themselves against a peril not so corporeal as a dragon or a demon or another loud guy with an army? How do the Knights of the Round Table handle themselves when their old style of heroism is no longer needed?
Once you get past the doom-and-gloom of Lee's Arthurian re-telling mixed with socio-political commentary on climate change, this story of finding heroes in unlikely places (refugee camps, Welsh kingdoms, or crawling out from under a tree, perhaps) follows through with an uplifting message of hope in the face of desolation-- "The weight that would be crushing becomes bearable when it's spread over ten or twenty shoulders. When it's spread over a hundred shoulders it becomes featherlight. It becomes easy to overturn."
I really enjoyed Lee's adaptation of the Arthurian characters and his writing style reminiscent of some of those original medieval texts while still feeling all his own.
Once you get past the doom-and-gloom of Lee's Arthurian re-telling mixed with socio-political commentary on climate change, this story of finding heroes in unlikely places (refugee camps, Welsh kingdoms, or crawling out from under a tree, perhaps) follows through with an uplifting message of hope in the face of desolation-- "The weight that would be crushing becomes bearable when it's spread over ten or twenty shoulders. When it's spread over a hundred shoulders it becomes featherlight. It becomes easy to overturn."
I really enjoyed Lee's adaptation of the Arthurian characters and his writing style reminiscent of some of those original medieval texts while still feeling all his own.