Review: very original take on a king Arthur tale
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2014
From reading the other reviews I felt I had to write one of my own. Yes the story starts slowly, but it's done to build backstory and to connect you to the character Meaghan. I appreciate that Terri Reid takes the time to make you become emotionally invested in her characters, then what happens to them actually matters! A measure of a good book and a good author to me, is a story that has characters that you actually empathize with, not a story you just rush through to get to the end.Now on to the review of the storyline itself! I am not a huge fantasy reader, but I have eclectic taste and really enjoy Terri Reid, so I was happy to try a King Arthur tale written by her. We start the story by getting to know Meaghan and her parents, and they present as a happy loving family, who also happen to be rather forward thinking by allowing their only daughter to learn things like sword play. In this story there happens to be a magical forest adjacent to their home, and it's filled by magical creatures like fairies, and of course, the Eochaidh. The Eochaidh are men who were transformed into horses by Merlin in an attempt to save them from a curse cast on them by Morganna, whom they were attempting to stop from traveling throughout time causing misery and spreading evil. This book focuses on the beginning of the last attempt to save the Eochaidh from Morganna's little cult who will stop at nothing to prevent the Eochaidh from being returned to men and ultimately stopping Morganna for good.