Review: Disappointed
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 23, 2013
I will start by saying that I enjoy Rain's first-person style and have really liked some of his other series. I was really looking forward to this one and felt it started off good with a modern twist to the Arthurian legend. Sadly, I was disappointed as it was filled with new-agey-Christianity psycho babble. I realize it's tough to have a quest for the Holy Grail without bringing in some religious content, but this was over the top and just weird to combine Christianity, faeries, psychics, reincarnation, etc, all into one big pot. Sure, most western mythology shares roots, or builds on each other, but this just felt bizarre. Plus it just bored me and lost my interest entirely. It is also very short, which is rather typical of Rain -- to publish serialized short books at a relatively high price point for the length, requiring you to buy more and more of them to get the whole story. Oh, and I didn't like Merlin as a bad guy; if nothing else, that would likely prevent me from buying the sequels.