A review by bookish_babe
I, Morgana by Felicity Pulman
2.0
1.5 Stars
I really really wanted to like this book. I love Arthurian legend and was so excited to get this story from Morgana’s perspective. I was hoping that this would be much like the recently released movie Malificent where were learned that she wasn’t as horrible as we all believed her to be and grew to love her character. Unfortunately, I Morgana,just didn’t grab my attention. I pushed, I really truly did but the writing was hard to get through and there was a lot of monologue. It drove me crazy. I finished it but I’ll admit that I did a lot of skimming. I kept waiting for it to get better but there was no real substance to it. The characters were poorly written and all of the characters we had grown up loving were portrayed as weaklings, or snobs/brats and very few characters in the book had any redeeming qualities. Its hard to enjoy a book when you hate everyone in it.
I really really wanted to like this book. I love Arthurian legend and was so excited to get this story from Morgana’s perspective. I was hoping that this would be much like the recently released movie Malificent where were learned that she wasn’t as horrible as we all believed her to be and grew to love her character. Unfortunately, I Morgana,just didn’t grab my attention. I pushed, I really truly did but the writing was hard to get through and there was a lot of monologue. It drove me crazy. I finished it but I’ll admit that I did a lot of skimming. I kept waiting for it to get better but there was no real substance to it. The characters were poorly written and all of the characters we had grown up loving were portrayed as weaklings, or snobs/brats and very few characters in the book had any redeeming qualities. Its hard to enjoy a book when you hate everyone in it.