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orryshorys's review
adventurous
informative
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: War, Violence, and Death
fdallachy's review
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
3.0
This is a nice idea - taking medieval myths and legends about the history of Britain and creating from them a new narrative. It replicates the medieval practice of taking multiple versions of stories, picking a main version to follow, but embroidering it with expansions from others and from the author's own imagination. My reservations about it, however, are that it doesn't flow terribly well; despite best efforts, the stories don't really have enough depth to combine into a coherent narrative, and the author's explanatory epilogues to each - which deliver some really interesting commentary - bring the momentum of the mythology to a crashing halt each time. It is, however, a really interesting experimental style of folklore writing, and very much worth reading.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Rape
zoezie's review
dark
informative
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: War, Violence, and Rape
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