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Dear Ms Rowley,
While I enjoy medieval set novels, they have the capacity to really push my bad buttons. Too often authors go for that period feel by randomly tossing in faux medieval dialogue, doing haphazard research and making the hero nothing but an angst filled bastard. Literally. And when an author takes on the whole opus of Camelot and King Arthur, well let’s just say things can get ugly. So when Jane forwarded your book to me I read the back blurb and hesitated. Then I read a few other reviews of it and thought, hmmm maybe. By the time I was finished, I was a happy camper and glad to have read this one.
I like how well you worked the standard Camelot canon into the story and really appreciated how you showed that many of the knights and ladies, for all their fine protestations, still have a ways to go to meet their own highly announced standards of conduct. It’s how a society treats its helpless people that shows how true are its convictions. I also agree with the Saxons that the role of a peaceweaver is easier for the men …
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