Character Profile
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Summary
A fantasy/legend retelling about Merlin before King Arthur pulled the sword from the stone.
Stats
Genre: YA (16+) Arthurian retelling (fantasy)
Series length: Three books
Violence: High, intense violence
Magic/Supernatural: High supernatural
Romance: Minimal
Christian/spiritual element: Overt Christian elements
Recommendation: Excellent for those who love King Arthur legends and high fantasy
You might like this book if you liked...
The Pendragon Cycle or other Arthurian legends
Series length: Three books
Violence: High, intense violence
Magic/Supernatural: High supernatural
Romance: Minimal
Christian/spiritual element: Overt Christian elements
Recommendation: Excellent for those who love King Arthur legends and high fantasy
You might like this book if you liked...
The Pendragon Cycle or other Arthurian legends
Opening Lines:
The pine trees mocked his youth, their thin, green fingers fretting in the wind. If he didn't move fast, they would betray him--he just knew it--and the deer would get away . . . again. Arvel wiped his brow, stole across an expanse of dead pin needles, and crouched behind a bush strangled by bindweed and its poisonous red berries. Holding his breath, he nocked an arrow. The three deer chewed and sniffed. Arvel's throat tingled and his body tensed. He parted the leaves at the side of the bush with his arrow as shadows danced on its pewter tip. The deer twitched their ears and turned their heads in unison. |
Merlin's Blade (Merlin Spiral, Book 1)
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Opening Lines:
In the half-light of a dying day, Ganieda wept in her mother's embrace. She felt again the burning of her mother's forehead. Ashen birds silenced their squawking and watched the two with hungry eyes. Dark clouds gathered overhead, and farther up the tree-lined ravine, a spring gurgled out brown water that trickled past them in dirge-like procession toward the marsh. Ganieda had been hungry in the morning--so hungry--but now fear had soured her stomach. |
Merlin's Shadow (Merlin Spiral, Book 2)
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Opening Lines:
Morgana scowled at King Gorlas's back as he dug into the grave. "Accursed shovel!" he yelled to the darkness, slamming the iron edge once more into the ground and flinging the dirt up. Five more times he jabbed at the loamy clay before twisting his wiry neck around and gazing at her savagely. "Are you sure she's here?" |
Merlin's Nightmare (Merlin Spiral, Book 3)
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