![]() ![]() The central character, and the emotional heart, of this series is Merlin himself he is barely a cameo in The Wicked Day, and the book suffers proportionately. Stewart wrote one more - The Wicked Day - and she would have done well to have refrained. I particularly liked how Stewart managed Merlin's "enchanted death", the sealing-up alive by the enchantress Nimue from Arthurian legend as always, she invests it with enough real-life elements to give it plausibility, while retaining enough magic to enthrall the reader.Īlso, sad to say, the series should have ended here. ![]() Stewart handles all these iconic events with her usual skill far from being predictable and blunted by their mythical draperies, they seem fresh, resonant and nuanced. ![]() But there are a couple of terrific parts to this installment: Arthur's marriage to Guenevere, the Arthur/Guenevere/Lancelot triangle (in this version, Arthur's childhood friend Bedwyr fills the Lancelot role, which is good - I couldn't take anyone named "Lancelot" seriously - it's just too much like a joke about male genitalia), and the Merlin/Nimue story. The Last Enchantment is perhaps slightly less interesting than the previous two books all the big events have already happened, and Stewart has less legend to draw on. ![]()
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