A review by paulieg
Camelot & Vine by Petrea Burchard

2.0

This book begins as a contemporary romance (with a vaguely distasteful heroine) but quickly morphs into a historical adventure, which is where it remains for the duration. Initially this was a welcome surprise--particularly the dusty & magic-free depiction of Camelot, as opposed to the more traditionally romantic, Febreezed version--but the story soon suffered from almost too *much* historical accuracy: there was apparently a lot of waiting around between battles in the Dark Ages,and we get to experience that in close to real time. The heroine also remains curiously enigmatic throughout, despite the book's first person POV; I wonder if close third might have helped bridge this odd emotional distance between protagonist and reader. My interest was held enough to finish it, but this book was definitely not what I expected, and I'm not sure I would have picked it up had I known this beforehand.