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M. K. Hume

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Hume, Marilyn K.
Geburtstag
1948-01-01
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female
Nationalität
Australia
Wohnorte
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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I honestly can't remember why I DNF'd this book. I'm going to give it another try. I can remember getting a bit irate with the common way the story was being told - like it was following the Disney Sword and the Stone version but without the good writing Disney had? I'll have to try it again to remember.

*All thoughts and opinions are my own.*
 
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The_Literary_Jedi | 7 weitere Rezensionen | Jul 4, 2021 |
In a nutshell, this is the retelling of the King Author myth spanning from Author's birth through his rise to the kingship. As Arthurian legends go, this one tends towards the strictly realistic and pulls no punches about the state of the world at the time.
Artorex is the foster son of a Romanized Celtic nobleman, Ector, and his Roman wife Livinia, living a comfortable life at the Villa Poppini. However, as he reaches maturity, he discovers the truth of his parentage. His father is the evil and cruel High King Uther Pendragon, and his mother is the tragic Queen Ygerne, stolen from her beloved husband by Uther. Uther resists all who may take his crown - even in death – and wise men in the court feared for the baby’s safety. So his parents were told he was stillborn, and he was spirited away in order to protect him from the jealousy of the King.
Over the years that follow, three mysterious strangers visit the villa and check on the progress of young Artorex, eventually asking that he is trained in the ways of the warrior. From humble beginnings with horse and sword, Artorex's ability grows as he is trained by Targo, an old Roman Centurion, and the two eventually go from being adversaries to friends.
Artorex’s reputation builds as he exposes a child murderer associated with his foster brother, Caius, and comes to the attention of the local people and eventually Uther.
In an attempt to kill Artorex, Uther sends him on a suicide mission to take a Saxon stronghold but unwittingly gives him the chance to grow in popularity and fame. Uther also orders the death of the young man’s family and the destruction of his home.
Artorex had been reluctant to acknowledge his relationship to the tyrant, but this sets the steel in his character, and he becomes determined to replace Uther and redress the wrongs committed during his time on the throne. This part of his story closes with Artorex being crowned as Arthur, King of the Britons.
I'm in no position to question the historical accuracy of the novel, but the work has clearly been thoroughly and academically researched.
As a work of imaginative fiction, the first part of this trilogy is tremendously stirring stuff and rather well-written, taking time to establish the historical context of the period, considering the backgrounds of the personalities and making those characters come vividly to life through a number of personal challenges that they have to face. Prophesy and destiny are in this way mixed with history and personality, cutting through the legend to the people underneath, making it all very real and meaningful and thoroughly engaging.
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Jawin | 7 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 3, 2019 |
This tale continued the adventures and exploits of Arthur, the Last Dragon.

For several years, Arthur has been living in the land of the Denes – at first as a captive of the great Storm Bringer, then as his friend and ally. He has survived brutal and bloody conflicts with the barbaric Geats, the plague, and the evil force within the court of Heorot. Now he is a wealthy, valued and respected war lord.

However, through all this, he longs to return to his homeland.

Arthur eventually does return to Britain, with a company of northlanders looking to make their home in a new country. After quite a struggle, he establishes a kingdom of his own in which he makes his own legacy.

An excellent completion of the Arthur trilogy, well-constructed, good characters and a good read.
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Jawin | Dec 27, 2018 |
Peopled with real and fictional characters, who come all vividly to life, this tale of brutal warfare within the hard world of the Celts continues the narrative of Arthur, the Last Dragon, after he has been captured by the Denes.

Once again wonderful storytelling makes this book a good read, and the historical backgrounds of the world of the Celts are exceptionally portrayed.

I do have one complaint/comment/reservation, though.

At times, Arthur comes across as a very “politically correct” reluctant warrior and killer who spends an awful lot of time whining, being petulant or indulging in self-pity and melancholy. He agonises (figuratively, of course) after having killed his enemies on the battlefield, although this is exactly what he has been trained to do all his life. Of course, there is no way of knowing how people may have felt in the sixth century AD, but the chances are that they hardly had any time to spare to feel sorry for themselves and were likely to be more preoccupied by more earthly matters than their immortal souls and countless sins, such as their own day-to-day survival.… (mehr)
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