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Printing Date: March 28, 2006
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The new king of Camelot wears no shining armor: Arthur and his knights have fallen and a new king rules.
In the darkest forest...
A scared, forsaken youth has become the most powerful -- and feared -- man in the world. Ruthless and unrestrained, Kerrigan has long ceased to be human.
In the heart of London...
A spirited peasant mired in drudgery, Seren dreams of becoming her own woman, but never expects that by fleeing her fate, she will meet her destiny.
Their worlds are forever changed...
Kerrigan's goal is simple: barter or kill Seren to claim Arthur's Round Table. Yet she is the one person who holds no fear of him. More than that, her nobility sparks something foreign inside him. In his nether realm, kindness is weakness and a king who harbors any sort of compassion loses his throne.
For countless centuries, Kerrigan has lived alone in the shadows. Now Seren's courage has forced him into the light that will bring either salvation to both of them...or death.
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Amazon, being the smart website that it is, recommended this book to me. It has everything I like and more. The main guy is evil, it's set in camelot, it's romance, it's medieval-esque, win-win all around for me.
The very first great falling out for me is the main guy is evil. The Kerrigan is as evil as I am, which is to say, I may 'say' I'm evil, but I'm not. He claims to be a liar but he lies to her two times in the whole book, and both times were to protect her. There was no killing, maiming or raping being done here. He's evil, let him be EVIL, not a prankster. Mind you, I like pranksters, but not when they're supposed to be ALL evil and a king.
There were far too many unimportant and unnecessary characters. Magda, Drystan, and half a dozen others mentioned once or twice and then never brought up again. For the most part, I'm okay with those extra unimportant characters, but in this book, there were far too many. They seemed important only for you to find out later that there really was nothing going on with them. Zero points for foreshadowing anything at all.
I believe the characters must be suffering from an extreme case of ADD. That seems to be the only logical reason I can think of for the main Hero and Heroine to be getting EXTREMELY hot and heavy and have the heroine start thinking, well, I may as well do this because it's not like I can go back to my life, or the shop...and oh all the people I liked..which reminds me of this time that my mother found a wolf in a trap...but really Kerrigan is like the wolf, so maybe that's what she meant, someone must have hurt him in the past...oh yeah, what was I doing again?
The unique idea behind this story alone deserved the three stars. I feel like a story that could have been one of my all-time favorites was completely destroyed by publishing it like this instead of working out the obvious flaws to characters and pacing that this book suffers so greatly from.
Future books in this series have the potential to be something honestly great, but this was the book that I was looking forward to. This was the story that I wanted to read, and unlike movies there are no remakes on books.
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I'm a huge Kennyon and Kinley MacGregour fan and this book did not disappoint. I loved the whole bad guy turn good but not completely good story line LOL. If you love her books you will love this one.
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Weird mix of time-travel and fantasy where Camelot is taken over by the evil Fey, Morgen, after Arthur falls; and the finding of the evil sword Caliban by a poor peasant boy leads to him becoming the Kerrigan, a centuries-old dark king and warlord of Camelot.
The nasty evil folk at Camelot are opposed by the Lords of Avalon, who seem curiously inept as they seek a girl who is prophesied will bear a merlin (magic-user). Seren is the girl, and she flees their crazy-talk right into the arms of the Kerrigan, who "saves" her by taking her straight to Camelot where Morgen hopes to use her to barter for magical items that will consolidate their power and enable them to rule the world. Seriously. Well, in this book, seriously.
It's a pretty weird mix of stuff: magic enables the good guys and the bad to be able to pop into the present day, so Morgen gets her slaves to buy her Starbuck's now and then, and drives the Kerrigan to distraction by playing INXS at her parties. The mix of the contemporary items and dialog isn't a happy one, and doesn't really seem to add much or have a purpose aside from being hip and anachronistic. Also, the very odd take on the Camelot legends can be disconcerting. But the basic story of the very evil Kerrigan finding love and redemption is cool.
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I expected an average bit of romance fluff, however surprisingly it was a unique twist on the Camelot Legend. It had somewhat of a mushy ending expected with most romances. But it left things open-ended where the war in the struggle between good and evil are far from over. I like the fact that unlike most romance novels, this one is filled with a fantastical world filled with magic.
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It felt like a cinderella-type fairy tale. Downtrodden peasant girl is taken by a prince of darkness, but he turns into a prince of goodness due to her influence. In the beginning, she stood up to him, did not fear him, this intriqued him, and he then fell for her. Their falling for each other seemed a little too quick and unexplained for me. I also did not like the many references to 20th century living. This story takes place in the middle ages, yet some of the characters would use words from the 20th century as if they lived in the 20th century. For example, she loves her Starbucks coffee, this is not a suicide hotline, I saw that happen on an episode of X-Files. Since some of the characters had the ability to time travel, I don't understand why they would choose to stay in the middle ages. Time-travel was not necessary to the plot. The only time it was connected to the plot was when they were running away from the evil queen for a short while before they returned to the safe place of Avalon (in the middle ages). The time-travel comments were a disconnect. They interrupted the flow of the story. I felt that the author was trying to be "cute," but I found it annoying rather than funny. The only redeeming quality in this story was that there were a few interesting plot developments.
Sexual language: mild. Number of sex scenes: four. Setting: middle ages, London, Camelot and Avalon. Genre: historical, paranormal romance.
For a list of my reviews of other books by this author, see my 3 star review of "Night Pleasures" by Sherrilyn Kenyon (aka Kinley MacGregor) posted 6/19/08.
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