One of them was The Guinevere Deception, which I only just picked up to read last week! (I’ve conveniently used it to to fulfill my BCB Reading Challenge prompt: A Book That Has Been On Your TBR List For A While.) It was intriguing and I finished it quickly. This series is to be a trilogy and I’m sure she will become stronger and more assertive as she learns and develops her own power and future.Earlier in the year I received a few books from my fellow Belle, Samantha. Guinevere has been thrown into something much bigger than she can control and her struggles dealing with it all make her a likeable character, even if as she learns herself gullible to other’s plans for her. We get to know Guinevere (who is not Guinevere), the Queen (who is not really the Queen), well. This retelling of this classic includes a female Lancelot, good and evil magic, nature against man and layers of deceptions and lies. Who can she trust? Which way will she turn? To Camelot and all it stands for, or to her own roots of magic, freedom and truth? Something deep and dark and malevolent is watching her, waiting for its moment. Hers is not the only deception in Camelot, with one after another revealing itself, each more dangerous than the next. Just when Guinevere believes she has worked out where the threat to Arthur is to come from, she realises her mistake. He seems to really see her, much more than the busy king. The more she gets to know Arthur, the closer she feels to him, but there is another who is close to her husband. She makes new friends but is always careful to keep her magic to herself, casting it where she can to protect the king. The wedding is grand and she learns much about her new husband, but is constantly wary of all those about him. Guinevere isn’t who she says she is – she is actually Merlin’s daughter, sent to protect King Arthur from a hidden foe. This man is none other than King Arthur of Camelot – the boy who became king after pulling the famous sword Excalibur from the stone when none other could. She’s never met her groom to be, but knows he is 18 years old, 2 years older than her and ruler of the knights that guide and protect her on her journey to marriage.
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