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Shadowland (2012)

by C.M. Gray(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Smashwords

review 1: I loved this book. I won't go into the plot--it's been well covered. I couldn't remember what this book was about when I came across it on my Kindle. I was absolutely delighted when I'd read enough that it dawned on me it was a creative retelling of an Arthurian tale.The prose vacillated between moving the plot forward and waxing poetically. That really worked,There were some errors--homonym mix ups, some missing words, and some punctuation not quite right. I'm noting this so other readers who would have the story ruined for them by the errors won't buy this book.The errors took nothing away from the story for me. I thought it was beautiful, haunting, and the ending was perfect.
review 2: A wonder of Arthurian legend is the variety which authors draw from it. I... moret is, as Professor Tolkien designed in his lecture "On Fairy", like a big soup pot from which elements are drawn and fashioned into a tale. And, while the elements may be true--or not--the tale is assuredly a fabrication. And neither are the worst for it.Mr. Gray has constructed this tale from the well-known elements of the "historical" Arthurian and sub-Roman Britain. It was entertaining and well done. I prefer these tales which place Arthur earlier in history over those of Mallory and Tennyson's high Medieval epics.The framing tale of the storyteller was a welcome addition.A good read. less

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