Judging from the reviews both on here and Amazon, I must be one of the only people who really couldn't stand this book!! To say I found this tiresome and a bit too heavy-going would be an understatement and, though I don't often give up on books, found myself turning away 2/3 of the way through the novel and finally admitting defeat. The idea is obviously to present a more historical view point of the Arthur legend and so is told from the perspective of Dreyfel- a member of Arthur's warband and an orphan taken in by the not-so sorcerous Merlin(who spends much of this novel absent whilst he seeks the lost and forgotten thirteen treasures of Britain)- who ...  Read the complete review

In the Mad Wicca household it tends to be Mr. Mad Wicca who does the lions share of our comestible shopping, usually at 3 am when our local all night Tesco is free of screaming children and people who leave their trolleys in the middle of the aisle whilst they go off to look for a packet of digestives. When he returns from these late night forays, more often than not, he’s bought me a little present, anything from a bar of chocolate to a soft toy witch (that I’d had my eye on for some time but no one had picked up on my many dropped hints for Christmas!) One time he came back with a book nestled between the potatoes and a tin of beans and said, ...  Read the complete review