The first book in the Camelot Code series, The Once and Future Geek , mixed time travel between the medieval world of King Arthur and our own, and it is a very entertaining book. The second book in the series, Geeks and Holy Grail (Hyperion, October 2019), is also entertaining (though not quite as funny; King Arthur as a modern day high school student is hard to beat....). When Morgana, sworn enemy of King Arthur, attacks the druids of Avalon, Nimue, the youngest of them, takes the Holy Grail and runs with it. King Arthur is dying, and only the Grail can save him. Desperate to keep it from falling into Morgana's hands, she stumbles into Merlin's Crystal Cave. But instead of Merlin there to help her (he's on vacation in Los Vegas, in our time), there's only his very inexperienced apprentice, Emrys. His attempt to hide the grail works, in a sense--as a small, flatulent dragon, it sure doesn't look much like a grail. But it isn't much use to Arthur as a...
by Cat Winters
It's 1918, and death is everywhere. Mary Shelley Black's best friend, Stephen, has gone off to fight in the war, and the Spanish influenza is rampant. When her father is accused of being a traitor and is imprisoned, Mary is sent to live with her aunt, Eva. Her aunt lives near Stephen's house, and Stephen's brother, Julius, takes spirit photographs, in which the spirits of the dead appear. During a visit, Eva and Julius convince Mary to sit for a picture, and when she receives the photograph, the ghost of Stephen stands behind her. Not long after that, Stephen's insane ghost starts to haunt her, and Mary is thrown into a tangled mystery as she attempts to determine exactly how Stephen died.
Supplemented with photographs, this book is brutally haunting. Because school was closed, Mary is stuck with nothing to do but contemplate the horrors around her, which are emphasized by the gauze masks that everyone wears. There was nothing that really bothered me until the end, although there were a few too many onions for my taste. It ends with a hopeful tone, and everything is tied up except for one thing. It just got dropped out halfway through the book.
I don't know much about this time period, so I can't comment on accuracy.
This book is a 3.7. The writing was good, but not spectacular. I have read books that pull me in and convince me the world is ending, which this book did not. The cover is excellent; it is exactly what this book is like. It was like tea without sugar. Bitter and a bit difficult to drink. This is not a sweet, easy-to-read book, but there is a comfort in having a good book to read.
It's 1918, and death is everywhere. Mary Shelley Black's best friend, Stephen, has gone off to fight in the war, and the Spanish influenza is rampant. When her father is accused of being a traitor and is imprisoned, Mary is sent to live with her aunt, Eva. Her aunt lives near Stephen's house, and Stephen's brother, Julius, takes spirit photographs, in which the spirits of the dead appear. During a visit, Eva and Julius convince Mary to sit for a picture, and when she receives the photograph, the ghost of Stephen stands behind her. Not long after that, Stephen's insane ghost starts to haunt her, and Mary is thrown into a tangled mystery as she attempts to determine exactly how Stephen died.Supplemented with photographs, this book is brutally haunting. Because school was closed, Mary is stuck with nothing to do but contemplate the horrors around her, which are emphasized by the gauze masks that everyone wears. There was nothing that really bothered me until the end, although there were a few too many onions for my taste. It ends with a hopeful tone, and everything is tied up except for one thing. It just got dropped out halfway through the book.
I don't know much about this time period, so I can't comment on accuracy.
This book is a 3.7. The writing was good, but not spectacular. I have read books that pull me in and convince me the world is ending, which this book did not. The cover is excellent; it is exactly what this book is like. It was like tea without sugar. Bitter and a bit difficult to drink. This is not a sweet, easy-to-read book, but there is a comfort in having a good book to read.
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