I feel par­tic­u­larly bad about not fin­ish­ing this, since Tem­plar kindly sent it to me for review, and it seems like the kind of book I prob­a­bly would have enjoyed as a kid. I’m not going to rate it, because if I did based on my own enjoy­ment it would pretty low and I don’t feel that is exactly fair, given that I not only didn’t fin­ish read­ing this, but that I’m also roughly fif­teen years older than the intended audience.

I have read and thor­oughly enjoyed a lot of junior fic­tion, but this one just didn’t work for me. The writ­ing was just too sim­ple for my lik­ing and the char­ac­ters didn’t feel real enough for me to care. Unfor­tu­nately I really didn’t like the hero­ine. She was the kind of char­ac­ter who is incred­i­bly naive but thinks she knows best and basi­cally causes a lot of bother for every­one else along the way. I found her bossy and unlik­able. Truth­fully I can­not name a char­ac­ter I really liked and it’s prob­a­bly the main rea­son as to why I gave up on this. This is also quite a long book for its age group and I per­son­ally found the story slow going.

I was hon­estly sur­prised that Sword of Light failed to cap­ture my inter­est. I love any­thing to do with the leg­ends of King Arthur and when I first heard the syn­op­sis for it I was very excited about the book. One of the great­est leg­ends retold, but with a Pen­dragon woman (or girl in this case), at the helm? It sounded like my kind of book. Sadly, I found myself pick­ing this up, grow­ing bored and putting it back down again many times over the last few months, and so I’ve finally decided to call it a day.

It’s such a shame, but I wouldn’t dis­cour­age any lit­tle read­ers from pick­ing this up, as they may well enjoy it far more than I. It has all the com­po­nents for a fan­tas­tic, mag­i­cal adven­ture but, per­son­ally, it didn’t come together. I guess I’m just too old for this one.

Read: 249/463 pages

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*Many thanks to Tem­plar for send­ing this for review*

A (bru­tally hon­est) fea­ture cre­ated by the lovely Lori at Pure Imag­i­na­tion.

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