Those followers who enjoyed my recent blog about Merlin’s Ghost and Tintagel Castle, will really love The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart. This is the first part of a Merlin trilogy and focuses on 5th Century Britain where the young Merlin is starting out on his path to immortality. It deals with all sorts of contemporary stories and finally offers some suggestions about Merlin’s parentage, and the trick that he played which resulted in King Arthur’s conception.
Mary Stewart’s writing is simply the best – she has that rare ability to give deeply convincing descriptive passages combined with dialogue which is realistic; too many writers produce wooden dialogue which grates. But be warned, once you start this book, it will take over your life until it’s finished. Then you will go out immediately to buy the next two in the series.
No comments:
Post a Comment