Review: frustration
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 23, 2012
I stopped reading this at 88%. I don't want to call this a self-publish issue, but sometimes you still need an editor! This could have garnered more stars from me if it was not such a mess. I felt like 3 people wrote different parts of the book. It wavered from bare bones, passionless descriptions to conversation dumps. The writing style and pace were all over the place, the lack of consistency lulls you to read more when you get to a good patch, then to threaten your innocent Kindle with spine-crackage during the bad points. There were also points in the book where a character would be introduced, and I thought they would become important to the plot, but they were just dropped after a couple chapters, barely mentioned in passing after a quarter of the book. The hot/cold of the main characters was frustrating.The book had it's good points, I thought the King Arthur bit was good. Merlin developed a school populated with influential people across the world, there were "houses" on the campus with Camelot reigning supreme. Arthur slept through the centuries waiting to be awoken when he was needed. He wakes up a child and eventually go to the Levels school, known as Eddy (weird middle name) Moon. The girl is Madeline, moved from London and the incarnation of the Lady of the Lake. Madeline makes moves to help Eddy including getting him the school sword and leadership of Camelot house. She advises him on being a leader. But he pushes her away since he is fated for a Queen and cannot tempt himself with loving her.Other than Merlin, who was only mentioned by name in passing, no other traditional characters were known... except Morgan le Fay, who was one of those characters who I'm not sure has a big role or not considering the author's method of writing on someone for a couple chapters and then dropping them. But after the events in the 80th percentile, I had to quit reading. It was a convoluted mess and you can't have stuff like that happen without explaining the events better. A pivotal moment described in a bathtub dream and brushed aside, WTF!Also, what's with his middle name being an anagram of Endymion? The girl works on it through a bunch of the book, making stuff up. But Endymion is a Greek guy who loved Hera, was punished by Zeus to a long sleep, and then visited by Selene the Mood Goddess in his dreams since she loved him.