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Summary: WHAT AN ENDING!
Review: After thoroughly enjoying the first two books of this series, I was delighted with Miles' end to the trilogy.
The saga continues without missing a beat and I was very satisfied with the "end" to the story of Merlin, Morgan, Mordred, Arthur and alike. It was infuriating, touching, sad, happy - you name the emotion - it's in there.I've visited Glastonbury, England - now I need to go back and sit under the hawthorn tree on the Tor and see it all with the "eyes" Rosalind Miles has given me. Loved the Epilogue - left me hungry for more.
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Summary: WHAT AN ENDING!
Review: After thoroughly enjoying the first two books of this series, I was delighted with Miles' end to the trilogy.
The saga continues without missing a beat and I was very satisfied with the "end" to the story of Merlin, Morgan, Mordred, Arthur and alike. It was infuriating, touching, sad, happy - you name the emotion - it's in there. I've visited Glastonbury, England - now I need to go back and sit under the hawthorn tree on the Tor and see it all with the "eyes" Rosalind Miles has given me. Loved the Epilogue - left me hungry for more.
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Summary: Best ending ever!
Review: As I neared the final chapter of this book I read more and more slowly, not wanting it to end.This final book of the Guenevere trilogy has the most satisfactory ending of any of the dozens of Arthurian stories that I've read before. The others always left me with a feeling of dissatisfaction and a gnawing sense that matters were not quite concluded but Rosalind Miles has hit on the perfect,most logical ending to this whole, magnificent fairy tale and her wonderful writing would satisfy even the toughest critics. I feel sad that this wonderful piece of magic has ended but would recommend the trilogy to anyone who is fortunate enough to have it all ahead of them.
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Summary: A totally new view
Review: I love this book. Ithought it was very inventive to write from Guenevere's point of view. I liked the stpry better this way as well. Now evertime i see something about King Arthur or Camelot that doesn't fit in with this story, i flip. lol great great book. I'm hooked on this trilogy and can't wait to read Isolde.
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Summary: Just All Right
Review: Of all the books in the Guenevere Series, this last one took me the longest to finish. Not that I didn't like it. It just didn't hold me in its grip like Marion Zimmer Bradley's THE MISTS OF AVALON, I guess, which is another retelling of King Arthur's story. By the time I was finished with Knight of the Sacred Lake (Book Two), I had grown too attached to Rosalind Miles's characters for me to just forget about them. That in itself shows that the characters have been pretty much well developed. What I didn't like so much, I think, is the unsympathetic way so many characters are portrayed. Sure, they're interesting, but maybe I was looking for more than just Guenevere and Lancelot to think kindly of as I read the entire series. If you love anything about King Arthur's court though, there's no reason you shouldn't read this. I give author Rosalind Miles credit for nevertheless producing a story with an interesting turn of events.
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Summary: You'll hate the characters!
Review: This book did not live up to its hype. It tries to do for Guenevere what Mists of Avalon did for Morgan le Fey, but it fails sorely because the title character is an embittered shrew. The plot repeats itself endlessly over the course of three novels. Guenevere loves Arthur, she hates Arthur, she forgives Arthur, she loves Arthur again, no wait, she hates him.... Arthur, by the way, is a weak, feeble-minded, doddering simpleton. This is not the great king of Arthurian legend at all. Lancelot is still a tasty dish, but there is no apparent reason why he would love a bitter, jealous, middle-aged woman who repeatedly casts him away. Morgan le Fey starts out as a promising character, but becomes a demonic harpy-type creature. And the tone is excessively anti-Christian. I'm not a religious person at all, but even I was offended by the way Christians are depicted in this novel. It's just not a pleasant read. If you want a great trilogy told from Guenevere's point of view, read Persia Woolley's Guenevere trilogy or Nancy McKenzie's Queen of Camelot. They're well worth the time and effort.
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