girish0731's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Rape, Animal death, Grief, Classism, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Religious bigotry, Blood, Child death, Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, and Misogyny
caskeene's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Gore and War
Moderate: Animal death and Sexual assault
Minor: Child death
seanml's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Also, this Lancelot is wildly different from T. H. White’s, which I didn’t expect. What a dick. 8/10.
Graphic: Blood, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, War, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Racism, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Slavery
Minor: Abandonment, Abortion, Alcohol, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, and Vomit
yurana's review
Arthur himself has hardly made an appearance so far. He apparently objects to rape and murder, but not enough to do something about it, when it is political inexpedient. I guess that makes him the good guy?
There is also the underlying story of the rivalry between Christianity and the old Druidic faith. The Christians all seem to be uneducated fanatics (and sometimes also pedophiles… let’s throw that in for flavor, too), while the druids are really into human sacrifice. I have no idea who I’m supposed to like here.
There is enough misery in this world already, I don’t need more of it. Especially since the book seems to have nothing more to say on the topic of violence and rape, except; “it happens isn’t that horrible(and/or exciting)?” Yes it is horrible and I don’t want anymore of it.
Graphic: Child death and Murder
Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, and Torture
ceallaighsbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
“Fate, Merlin always said, is inexorable… There was so much heartache, so much blood and so many tears that they would have made a great river; yet, in time, the eddies smoothed, new rivers joined, and the tears when down to the great wide sea and some people forgot how it ever began. The time of glory did come, yet what might have been never did…”
“Christianity now lapped around the old faith like a wind-driven high tide splashing through the demon-haunted reed-beds of Avalon.”
“The night was long and bitterly cold. But I wished the dawn would never come.”
- The Saxon Chronicles, by Bernard Cornwell
- The Once and Future King, by T.H. White
- The Story of Silence, by Alex Myers
- Legendborn, by
- Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
- The Welsh Princes Trilogy, by Sharon Kay Penman
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, Rape, and Violence
Moderate: Misogyny and Religious bigotry
Minor: Animal cruelty
Also contains problematic portrayal of a character with dwarfism, and confinement & banishment of the mentally ill (who are also portrayed somewhat problematically).