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A review by hopegirl0727
The Wicked Day by Mary Stewart
4.0
I'm only going to give this book four stars instead of five because I was ecstatic to think there was a fourth book featuring Merlin only to be bitterly disappointed that he wasn't in it at all. Oh, he's mentioned quite a bit, and his prophecy is there, looming, about Arthur's bane, but he, himself, was absent. Ugh.
But aside from that bitter pill to swallow, this book continued in the excellent tradition of Mary Stewart's three other Arthurian books. Namely, she dedicates her narrative to depth and description. This book doesn't plod, but it certainly doesn't ricochet from action sequence to action sequence like so many books I've read these days. You know, things don't have to blow up to be exciting. And in the end, everything is built on the flimsiest of foundations and it goes to show what a gifted writer she is that these infinitesimally small moments turn the entire course of the narrative.
All in all, it was a good conclusion to the series, but I still wish it had been about Merlin.
But aside from that bitter pill to swallow, this book continued in the excellent tradition of Mary Stewart's three other Arthurian books. Namely, she dedicates her narrative to depth and description. This book doesn't plod, but it certainly doesn't ricochet from action sequence to action sequence like so many books I've read these days. You know, things don't have to blow up to be exciting. And in the end, everything is built on the flimsiest of foundations and it goes to show what a gifted writer she is that these infinitesimally small moments turn the entire course of the narrative.
All in all, it was a good conclusion to the series, but I still wish it had been about Merlin.