hopegirl0727 's review for:

The Lost Years of Merlin by T.A. Barron

3.0

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I was disappointed. The beginning really caught my interest -- Merlin had washed up on a shore with no memory of who he was before that moment. Unfortunately, it was based too much in Welsh mythology. Because of that, instead of being a playful retelling of the Merlin story (I'm looking at you, Mary Stewart), it felt like a crappy copy of The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. I found myself wanting to go read The Black Cauldron, with Taran and Eilonwy, two of my favorite miscreants, instead. I think I'll read the second book anyway, just in case it gets better, but I was really kind of disappointed in this one.