novelideea's review
3.75
Graphic: War, Violence, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Rape, Gore, Blood, Sexual assault, Slavery, Misogyny, Excrement, Cursing, and Toxic friendship
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
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).