Review: Oh, if only an editor had hacked out all the repetition.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2013
(Sigh) ...these books... Let me start on a positive note and say that I love retellings of Arthurian legends, and this one was original.It would have been so much more interesting if they had been properly edited.The characters were good, if not a bit stereotypical, but as a reader, I never really got a good sense of what made Ryan so special that both Matt and Vane were so in love with her. She was smart, and pretty bad-ass, but is that fascinating enough for the two most powerful wizards around? That dynamic, the back and forth between Ryan and Matt, and Ryan and Vane, became frankly pretty boring. She was unsure until almost the very end of the stories, and all the while both men are treating her like s***  with the occasional acts of love and/or kindness.The adventure side of the story was original, but so convoluted and confusing. Even knowing all of the legends that the author was playing on I was barely hanging on to what was happening and when. A little of the author showing us what the characters were doing instead of listing every detail of what the room looked like or what x, y, and z were wearing would have gone a long way. These books are definitely guilty of having the story told *at* you.The bones of these books are pretty sound, but are lost in layers of forced drama and useless descriptions.