Although I did like this prequel more than I expected to, I still wasn’t “hooked.” I was bugged a bit by the use of nei and ja... Sometimes dialectal quirks can work, but for some reason this one didn’t. I was also a bit hesitant to swallow the “there is a boy you’re destined to be with” plot dev...
This is well written with very few grammar issues—“breathe” that should be “breath”, “soothe” that should be “sooth”. It reads easily, flows well and I like the idea of “episodic” books. My complaint about this retelling is personal: Arthur has been my hero since “The Sword In the Stone” and I...