Review - Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a pretty interesting book, in terms of surmises about how the henge was built and the reasons for various things being there and so on. Unfortunately, as a novel it didn't work for me. The writing style, for a start, is very simplistic. I've read and enjoyed Bernard Cornwell's writing before -- namely the Warlord Chronicles -- which unfortunately made me notice that characters are very much recycled. It's easy to see some of Ceinwyn in Aurenna, and a bit of Nimue in both Aurenna and Derrewyn. Saban isn't quite Derfel, but it's close, and I can see a bit of Arthur in him too. Camaban is Merlin, and Camaban's goals are just about the same as Merlin. Aurenna's betrayal is the same as Guinevere's, and not even as interesting and heart-wrenching.

Easy to read, reasonable to curl up with and just relax, but it doesn't have the same life in my head as the Warlord Chronicles, and I'm not keeping it.