Camelot
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Camelot
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Phillip Stevens
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Giles Kristian
About this listen
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Following his acclaimed Sunday Times best seller, Lancelot, Giles Kristian's new novel returns us to the realms of Arthurian legend....
Britain is a land riven by anarchy, slaughter, famine, filth and darkness. Its armies are destroyed, its heroes dead or missing. Arthur and Lancelot fell in the last great battle and Merlin has not been seen these past 10 years. Now the Saxons are gathering again, their warbands stalk the land, their king seeks dominion. As for the lords and kings of Britain, they look only to their own survival and will not unite as they once did under Arthur and his legendary sword Excalibur.
But in an isolated monastery in the marshes of Avalon, a novice of the order is preparing to take his vows when the life he has known is suddenly turned upside down in a welter of blood. Two strangers - the wild-spirited, Saxon-killing Iselle and the ageing warrior Gawain - will pluck the young man from the wreckage of his simple existence. Together, they will seek the last druid and the cauldron of a god. And the young man must come to terms with his legacy and fate as the son of the most celebrated yet most infamous of Arthur's warriors: Lancelot.
For this is the story of Galahad, Lancelot’s son – the reluctant warrior who dared to keep the dream of Camelot alive....
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Fabulous
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Excellent Will go back and listen to Lancelot
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At its heart this is a story about a young man trying to figure himself out and forge his own identity, separate from the long shadow cast by his legendary father, Lancelot. Having spent nearly a decade hidden with isolated monks, he is pulled away by Gawain and his comrades to embark on an epic adventure to find Merlin, allies and mythical objects.
It's refreshing to have a strong central female character, as, as pointed out by Giles, so many women have been misrepresented or tragically erased from our history.
Whilst there is a love story, for me, I missed the intensity and passion of Lancelot making it harder to invest in their relationship - a minor point in a great sequal.
Brilliant addition to the enduring Arthurian Legend
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Narrator, Phillip Stevens is getting better and better with each story; as he was at a very high level already, this is quite a feat. This particular programme, I believe, is his best so far and the best of all the narrators I have, so far, come across.
Camelot...As never before.
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In Lancelot we had a lot of build up to the main story. It started with Lancelot as a child and worked all the way up to him as an adult and one of the most famous warriors, and infamous lovers, that Britain has ever known. In Camelot, we don't have much of the build up with Galahad. He starts out training to be a monk and that's pretty much all the growing up with him we do. I'd have liked more just so I could get a deeper connection with him that I felt I had, but I don't think it was either possible due to the time and events going on, nor did it detract too much from my enjoyment of the book. After all, that experience in 'Lancelot' gave me one of my favourite connections to a character (Lancelot's sparhawk) and one of my all-time most hated antagonists (Melwas).
In Camelot, Giles Kristian is getting the band back together (with a new front man this time). Lancelot ended with our hero leaving his son on a windy hilltop to go off and fight the saxons. This book features that self same boy and his destiny to carry on the fight in reuniting Britain against the saxon hoard.
Characters that were more of a main focus are either entirely absent (for reasons in the prior book) or take a much lesser role in this one. It feels almost like the old guard standing to one side and allowing the new to inherit the earth.
As with Lancelot, events in this book deviate from pretty much any Arthurian retelling you have heard or seen before. And thank god for that. Who wants to sit through two hefty tomes of a rehashed story when, what we have been given instead is a fresh, new and far more unknown version of events. With Camelot, and the story that preceded it, Kristian has created a brilliant story and used the characters in such wonderful and interesting ways. There are, as you will notice (and as you will read in the author's note if you don't notice) nods of the head to the traditional events from retellings of old, just with a new twist.
If I had one complaint to go along with the 'I'd have liked the same in-depth childhood build up with Galahad that we had with his father', it would be how fast Galahad turns into a warrior. He spends so very long living the life of an aspiring monk and yet, in so short a time, he is fighting and killing men who have been fighting and killing for the best part of their entire lives. I know he was the son of the greatest warrior to walk the land, but fighting isn't a genetic trait. In all fairness, he isn't the greatest warrior himself. Much of his skill is talked up by Merlin and the other knights in order to make him more feared by the saxons. So it could have just been my needling too hard for criticism.
One high point, after such a minor lowpoint, is that Kristian has a real knack for building up to a fight and giving you that 'big fight feel'. If ever he gets tired of writing great books, he could easily become a booker for wrestling, or a boxing promoter.
I hope there is more to come in this series as I am very much interested in what happens next with Galahad's band of warriors.
Another great listen from Kristian
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