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In which I cater to the whims of my core audience
Day 13 → a fictional book
From Publishers Weekly
I picked this book up not long after I started the Merlin tv series. I was looking for something Arthurian but unexpected and that's what I got. It's a gentle, poetic read and a great retelling of the story.
From the author
So there you go, 90% of my friends list should appreciate it. READ IT!
From Publishers Weekly
Though usually portrayed as the worm in the bud that was Camelot, Mordred, the illegitimate offspring of King Arthur and sorceress Morgan le Fay, gets sympathetic treatment in Clegg's revisionist Arthurian fantasy, the first in a projected trilogy. Born into exile on the Isle of Glass, the young Mordred knows his father only through the stories bitter elders tell of Arthur's theft of Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake. Mordred flourishes under the instruction of his mother and the wizard Merlin, but he's distracted from his education in druidic mysteries by his adolescent passion for a hermit living in the nearby wilds. That hermit's identity, coupled with a transgression that alienates Mordred from his community by the novel's end, all point to the inexorable destiny that shapes the tale's events and tinges them with pathos.
I picked this book up not long after I started the Merlin tv series. I was looking for something Arthurian but unexpected and that's what I got. It's a gentle, poetic read and a great retelling of the story.
From the author
Fans of King Arthur legends, particularly alternative ones, of slash fiction, of gay novels as well as those novels not classified as "gay," will enjoy this story. I wrote it for everyone who loves an exploration of a legend through adventure, mysticism, and even a good battle or two.
So there you go, 90% of my friends list should appreciate it. READ IT!
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