The Sluts
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Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and told...
The Queen of All that Lives (The Fallen World #3)
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She's a martyr. A myth. A ghost. A legend. She's my soulmate and my captive, my conscience and my...
They were enjoyable, I felt, but not the greatest such novels I'd ever read (I enjoyed the first one the most)
I also, relatively recently, read the first in his 'Rise of Sigurd' prequel novels and felt that one, at times, to be a bit of a chore to get through.
As such, I'd never really gone out of my way to look for any other book by Giles Kristian
However, being the optimist that I (sometimes) am, with loads of adverts extolling its virtue on a popular social-media networking site and with a intriguing premise, I thought I would give this one a go.
And I'm glad I did: it's in (I felt) a completely different league that any of his previous.
This is, effectively, a semi-historical re-telling of the Arthurian myth unique, however, in that it is told from the point of view of Lancelot himself: one third of, perhaps, the most well known love-triangle in the English language but of whom has always been given short shrift, dropping in and out of the Arthurian myth.
This, however, turns that on it's head, with Arthur only appearing roughly about half-way through this book, and with Lancelot having previous history with Guinevere before she is even Arthur's wife. This work follows him right from his boyhood, through his rescue and upbringing by Lady Nimue (Arthurian myth name drop? Check), his first meetings with Merlin (another check) and with Arthur (major check), the reimagined Excalibur (check) and the Lady of the Lake ("listen, just 'cos some watery tart threw a sword at you …"), Mordred (yet another check), his love affair with Guinevere, his exile and even Mordred's betrayal of Arthur.
I have to say, I really enjoyed this: a strong contender for the best book I've read so far this year.
Slow Road to Brownsville: A Journey Through the Heart of the Old West
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"Immensely illuminating and enjoyable account of a road trip along Highway 83 ...Books like...
Ending and Unending Agony: On Maurice Blanchot
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Hannes Opelz
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Published posthumously, Ending and Unending Agony is Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's only book entirely...
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Mary Boleyn: 'The Great and Infamous Whore'
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Sister to Anne Boleyn and seduced by two kings, Mary Boleyn has long been the subject of scandal and...
The Cosmic Influence
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Join in as Walter Cruttenden and Shawn Freeman explore the ancient myth and folklore of cultures...
My Body Welsh
Steffan Donnelly and Tara Robinson
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Jones and Davis are fighting. There's a skeleton in the well. There's more to being Welsh than...
Penelope
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From a re-telling of the Greek myth: When Ulysses failed to return, suitors flocked around Penelope....