Review - Guenevere
Aug. 10th, 2008 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wilderthanJust finally finished reading the Guenevere trilogy by Rosalind Miles. Numerous times when reading these three books, I declared to anyone listening that if there was another purple prose sex scene or another scene in which Guenevere makes an irrational outburst, I'd actually burn the books. I never have yet, but I came very close to just getting out a box of matches and doing it.
I'm not quite sure why I even bothered reading the whole trilogy. Stubbornness, I suppose. And it is readable enough -- once I put my mind to it, I could read great chunks of the books in one sitting. But the characterisation is erratic and inconsistent, and it doesn't really bring anything new to the Arthurian legends. It's supposed to be a feminist take on the legend, or so I read, but Guenevere's behaviour makes it seem rather the opposite to me.
I do not recommend.
I'm not quite sure why I even bothered reading the whole trilogy. Stubbornness, I suppose. And it is readable enough -- once I put my mind to it, I could read great chunks of the books in one sitting. But the characterisation is erratic and inconsistent, and it doesn't really bring anything new to the Arthurian legends. It's supposed to be a feminist take on the legend, or so I read, but Guenevere's behaviour makes it seem rather the opposite to me.
I do not recommend.
