I had started this book once before and didn't finish it. Although I got much further this time, I am not finishing it again. Its not that it is a bad book, its just that it is a very SLOW book. The author's style is to repeat things over and over again in slightly different ways. I kept finding myself thinking "I got it already" and skipping paragraphs, or sometimes whole pages.
It left me with the feeling that if I only read the topic sentences I might have enjoyed the story more. I think I will listen to the audio version some day. The story was good, but not worth the time it would take to actually read the whole book. While the writing was good in certain sections, I found this book very slow, hard to get through, and easy to put down. Too many of the characters are also just not likeable enough to be redeemed when they do morally wrong.
Already knowing this story from one side from the rest of the series, I don't feel this one focusing more on Uther brought anything new or unique enough to warrant this book. Definitely not my favorite in the series. Mara Thompson. But amazing. Favorite Quotes I knew even then, the first time that I saw you, that I loved you. I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.
A man is a fool to live in hopes of a better tomorrow. I have a thousand, better ways today to spend what time remains ahead of me, and I have brighter, lighter and more pleasant places in which to spend it. She knew exactly how he was feeling, because experience had taught her that the kind of excitement she was feeling at that moment was never, ever one-sided. On the contrary, she knew that it was born of acute and mutual anticipation, and she knew, too, that it would not be denied.
During a time when I was interested in Athurian literature, I picked this book up from the local used bookstore. The owner told me it was supposed to be a good series. I had pretty high hopes. When I started reading it, I was disappointed at first, to discover that there was to be no magic but I decided to keep going.
After all, magic isn't everything. The writing is good, I suppose, but it just didn't hold my interest. It could also use better editing. I remember a part where Uther is is thinking or talking about his dead mother, when his mother was actually still alive. The part that made me stop reading was after Uther rescues a woman from brigands who had just repeatedly beat and raped her. On their journey home, they stop to rest and clean up.
When the woman's nakedness is exposed, Uther gets turned on and they eventually have sex What woman, no matter how strong willed, is going to want or feel like having sex just hours after being raped and beaten? Another in the Camulod series about The Arthurian legend this is such a great series , but coming from a different angle than the other 8 books. The other books are all written in the first person telling the story of Arthurs ancestry, firstly through the eyes of his great Uncle Publius Varrus, and the later books through the eyes of Merlyn, Arthur's second cousin.
This book tells the story of Uther, Arthurs father , and told in the third person, you will see if you read the series why this is It is a stand alone book and tells you the story already told in the first 6 books but coming at it from Uthers side of things. It is really clever as you can see the story vividly, as you go along, but from a different perspective!
I loved this book as I have loved them all so far and I couldn't recommend this series highly enough it's brilliant! Brandy Y. I bought this book when it was published, as I was a huge fan of the series. For some reason, it just didn't click with me, so I put it down after the first couple of chapters. Recently, I decided to re-read the entire series, and gave Uther another try.
I can see where I stopped before, but I kept going and found it just as gripping and fantastic as any other of these Jack Whyte books. Much of the story had been gone over in one of the earlier books, but in this one, we see things from an entirely different point of view, and questions that have been mysteries for many books now have answers.
Since the story was already part of another book, you know it's a tragic one, but it was a beautiful tragedy. Displaying 1 - 10 of reviews. Join the discussion. NO remainder mark. We're happy to provide pictures of any and all books for you, please just ask!.
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In the early fifth century, amidst the violent struggles between the people of Britain and the invading Saxons, Picts and Scots, he and his former general, Caius Britannicus, forge the government and military system that will become known as the Round Table, and initiate a chain of events that will lead to the coronation of the High King we know today as Arthur.
Creating their own army and joining with the Celtic people of King Ullic Pendragon, the colonists emerge as a new breed of Britons, ready to forge the government that will be the Round Table and its Knights and to prepare the groundwork for the future coronation of Arthur, first High King of Britain.
Caius Merlyn Britannicus is responsible for the safety of the Colony known as Camulod, and for the welfare of the colonists who look to him for guidance, leadership, justice and salvation. Uther Pendragon, the man who will father the legendary Arthur, is the cousin Merlyn has known and loved since their briths - four hours apart on the same day, the year the legions left Britain.
As different as can be, they are inseparable: two faces of the same coin. In a world torn apart by warfare and upheaval, each is the other's certainty - until a vicious crime, one that strikes at the roots of Merlyn's own life, drives a wedge between them. Merlyn is now the sole custodian of the great dream of his ancestors: that of independent survival in Britain amid the ruins of the imperial Roman world.
He is also the keeper of Excalibur, the wondrous sword crafted by his great uncle, Publius Varrus.
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