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DID NOT FINISH
DNF’ed at 52%. I’m just going to watch the Netflix series. At halfway through I wasn’t invested in any of the characters - except the weeping monk; he was getting relatively interesting. And for a book where it feels like things are constantly happening, you look back, and nothing really happened...
Nimue is a headstrong protagonist in an annoying way, and somehow she’s also not very active in her own fate. Everything she does (up to the halfway point) is because someone tells her to or because the sword is pushing her along. Arthur is also just a meh character, and I felt myself sighing and forcing myself forward every time the chapter focused on Merlin.
I think the concept is excellent, and I bet the series on Netflix is good (at least I hope so), but the book left a lot to be desired for me. The art also in no way contributes the the book’s readability. The colored pictures are beautiful, but they are few and far between, but the black ink drawings feel unfinished, and I just skipped right over them before long.
Nimue is a headstrong protagonist in an annoying way, and somehow she’s also not very active in her own fate. Everything she does (up to the halfway point) is because someone tells her to or because the sword is pushing her along. Arthur is also just a meh character, and I felt myself sighing and forcing myself forward every time the chapter focused on Merlin.
I think the concept is excellent, and I bet the series on Netflix is good (at least I hope so), but the book left a lot to be desired for me. The art also in no way contributes the the book’s readability. The colored pictures are beautiful, but they are few and far between, but the black ink drawings feel unfinished, and I just skipped right over them before long.