I liked this twist on the Sword in the Stone story. A little to in your face with the LGBT equality. Yes, it's nice to know many people can relate to the differences but it could have been more organic. The scene I'm thinking of . . . yes, we kneaded to know this specific characters preference but the way she just announced it when no on asked? That could have been better, it just felt thrown in. All in all a great book, will recommend. Only took issue with one paragraph, lol. ( )

I tried to like this, but the writing was... not good. Excessive use of adverbs and awkward figurative language plus I didn't really find it funny though it was clearly trying hard to be. Not terrible, but really not my taste. I would probably give this two stars, but I really liked the LGBTQ representation. It's strange that this future world is repressive in many ways, but very open when it comes to the fluidity of gender and sexuality. But I like sci-fi with some aspirational elements as opposed to just a straight dystopia.

This could be popular with teens who are hungry for books with LGBTQ representation. I'm not sure if it will please fans of Arthurian stories. I really don't see it appealing to hardcore fantasy or sci-fi readers. ( )

There were ideas I just loved in this book such as Merlin’s entrapment- going through time reliving the Arthur story/triangle. It explains how Merlin gets into this strange future.

I even liked Arthur was a woman/teen. It made things pleasantly different.

It just kind of fell of the rails at times throughout the book. There were a bit too many “oh look we are pushing boundaries” moments that drew attention to themselves. The pushing boundaries was great, but pointing directly at it, took away from the narrative.

It was ok and I enjoyed it at times, but can’t really recommend. ( )

Had to drop it, it was not bad but I wasn't in the right mind to read it and can't really see myself picking it up anytime soon.

I thought is was a funny sci-fi adventure and I’m kind of disappointed.
Sometimes it was funny, but not as much as I’d liked. To me it felt like this book put too many concepts in 400 pages.

There’s the king Arthur myth, the sci-fi world, reincarnation and history repeating itself, action scenes, friendships and romances, plus it includes serious topics like space refugees and an evil mega corporation (I didn’t feel like those topics were ever as serious in the book as they truly are)
And all of these things are solid, but didn’t get fleshed out enough for me.
The evil mega corporation was cliche evil, the space refugee situation was mostly backstory and I really didn’t like the romance between Ari and Gwen. Guinevere is one of the core things from this myth, so I hoped there would be a slow love story to go with the dramatic ending. It was the absolute opposite.
I don't know how to describe it other than that it felt chaotic through all that was happening.

However, the reincarnation part of Arthur’s story was really well done. Many familiar elements showed up in interesting sci-fi ways. Everyone wants to do better than the last times, but they all see the signs. ( )