I can be choosy when it comes to certain retellings and Arthurians fall into that realm for me. When I first picked up Legendborn I was excited, but skeptical. I’ve always been weary over the years whenever magic beyond Merlin’s, specifically, is involved in tales of Arthur. Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table I guess a part of me is just kind of sick of them. This is a chosen one-eqsue narrative that needed to be precisely that. It is only the nuanced acuity of the treatise that made this twist brilliant. You see, were this twist not entrenched in the deeper commentaries of the book, I would have hated it. What’s worse, is I feel horribly conflicted over my distaste for it to the point that I’m still giving this book five stars despite finding it irritating. The all at once speed with which it happened was one thing. What bugged me, though, was the twist at the end. Sure, there was a half-baked almost love-triangle, but given the source material, I’m actually fine with it. In every single other way, this book was basically perfect. And truthfully, there’s really only one thing I didn’t care for. I would love nothing more than to say that I adored every single piece of this book. This is both a brilliant…and an unfortunate thing. And while Legendborn is certainly a story based around this story, it is in no way what you expect it to be. There is something utterly captivating about the boy king, his gallant knights of the round table, and the wizard who advised him.
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