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A review by kristinecanwrite
The Camelot Betrayal by Kiersten White
3.0
While plenty happened in this book and the themes of The Guinevere Deception were interestingly continued, this one felt very middle-book-of-a-trilogy-ish. Many of the things that were easy to love in TGD lingered here in less fun ways. If I found the first one a bit circular and tedious, this one was more so, without the verve of the first one to buoy it up. I still enjoyed the character development and some of the twists of the story.
Ultimately it just feels like 300+ pages was too much for the story we got, and so a lot of fluff was built in to pad it out until we got to the interesting bits. I spent a lot of the book waiting for the story to move on. Finally, I was excited to move past the Mordred part of the love triangle after the last book, and am disappointed we did not. He felt like a stock accessory story, keeping Guinevere's choice between Camelot and magic open even after she made the choice, rather than letting the story move on to the more interesting question of what happens now that she's made it. This is the first Camelot story where Lancelot has been my favorite character though, so, I'm hoping the tension between her and Guinevere comes to a head in the final part of this trilogy.
Ultimately it just feels like 300+ pages was too much for the story we got, and so a lot of fluff was built in to pad it out until we got to the interesting bits. I spent a lot of the book waiting for the story to move on. Finally, I was excited to move past the Mordred part of the love triangle after the last book, and am disappointed we did not. He felt like a stock accessory story, keeping Guinevere's choice between Camelot and magic open even after she made the choice, rather than letting the story move on to the more interesting question of what happens now that she's made it. This is the first Camelot story where Lancelot has been my favorite character though, so, I'm hoping the tension between her and Guinevere comes to a head in the final part of this trilogy.