Review: An 'Okay' book
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2013
One has to expect that a retelling of the Arthurian legends is going to introduce some new elements. I was prepared to accept names being reassigned to totally different characters (for example, Aggravaine is now Arthur's uncle, not his nephew). Re-writing heroic characters as villains, ditto. What kept on jarringly breaking my sense of belief in this retelling, however, were the anachronisms. Everyone keeps saying 'okay'. Descriptions that could have easily been given a more historical tone repeatedly used modern slang. Arthur observes that something is like the explosion of a powder keg- despite explosives not having been invented during the Arthurian era. Sure, re-write a legend...but make it true to the era in which it's set.