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 Kiersten White (text) and Jim Di Bartolo (art)
Charles is sick with a disease that doctors cannot cure, so his father sends him to a boardinghouse for fresh air with his brother, Thom. There, they meet sisters Cora and Minnie as well as another boarder named Arthur. Together, they delve into secrets left by Arthur’s father that seem to be following Charles and Thom in the form of a group of mysterious strangers. It struck me as gothic in tone, complete with hidden pasts and witches.
Charles is sick with a disease that doctors cannot cure, so his father sends him to a boardinghouse for fresh air with his brother, Thom. There, they meet sisters Cora and Minnie as well as another boarder named Arthur. Together, they delve into secrets left by Arthur’s father that seem to be following Charles and Thom in the form of a group of mysterious strangers. It struck me as gothic in tone, complete with hidden pasts and witches. Overall, this book was flat. It is told in sequences of pictures (done by Jim Di Bartolo) alternated with text chapters (done by Kiersten White), and it seemed as though the authors skimmed over the story like an in-depth summary rather than really digging into it. The entire time I read it, I felt emotionally detached. The characters weren’t fleshed out and the depth of plot and world was hinted at rather than explored.
This book is a 2.2. I’m left with very little to say about it given the lack of feeling I was left with after finishing. There was some mild confusions over what I had just read. It was like a cereal bar. It’s not terrible, but you eat it, you finish it, and you go on with your life. Eating the cereal bar is barely a blip in the day, which is how I felt about reading this book. It’s good for a quick read if you need something to use up some time.
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