Various things happened in the first two books: we meet our Lancelot, and this Lancelot is a woman Guinevere develops an intense crush on Mordred, who seems shifty but also seems to understand Guinevere in a way others cannot, given his own connection to magic Guinevere must learn to navigate court politics, which being raised in a hut in the forest by an enigmatic wizard really didn’t prepare her for (especially for the politics of the women). And Excalibur is the sword that absorbs all magic, etc etc, there you go. There’s just one problem: magic is illegal in Arthur’s Britain, due to his long battle against his sister Morgana and the Dark Queen who is her–grandmother? I think? a faerie entity, at any rate, who is Arthur’s implacable enemy. The real Guinevere, our protagonist thinks, died and she took the girl’s place, in order to safeguard Arthur and the Britain he is ushering into being through the careful use of her magic. The premise thus far has been intriguing, after all: the series focuses on the perspective of Guinevere, newly married to King Arthur and brought to Camelot–except Guinevere is not what she seems, but some sort of fae creature trained by Merlin to aid Arthur in a Britain that is divided between various warring tribes. Kiersten White’s Camelot Rising trilogy has been a fun diversion through other points of the last two rotten years, so I was looking forward to the final book wrapping it all up.
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