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The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Best Book of the Year (So Far) • A New York Times Editors’ Choice • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium
“Grossman, who is best known for his The Magicians series, is at the top of his game with The Bright Sword.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A thrilling new take on Arthurian legend. . . . Marvelous.” —The Washington Post
“If you love King Arthur as much as I do, you’ll love Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword, a fresh and engrossing take on the Matter of Britain featuring a colorful cast of Round Table knights who don’t often get as much story time as they deserve. The creator of The Magicians has woven another spell.” —George R. R. Martin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Game of Thrones
A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a place at the Round Table, only to find that he’s too late. King Arthur died two weeks ago at the Battle of Camlann, and only a handful of the knights of the Round Table are left.
The survivors aren’t the heroes of legend like Lancelot or Gawain. They’re the oddballs of the Round Table, like Sir Palomides, the Saracen Knight, and Sir Dagonet, Arthur’s fool, who was knighted as a joke. They’re joined by Nimue, who was Merlin’s apprentice until she turned on him and buried him under a hill.
But it’s up to them to rebuild Camelot in a world that has lost its balance, even as God abandons Britain and the fairies and old gods return, led by Morgan le Fay. They must reclaim Excalibur and make this ruined world whole again—but first they’ll have to solve the mystery of why the lonely, brilliant King Arthur fell.
The first major Arthurian epic of the new millennium, The Bright Sword is steeped in tradition, complete with duels and quests, battles and tournaments, magic swords and Fisher Kings. It’s also a story about imperfect men and women, full of strength and pain, trying to reforge a broken land in spite of being broken themselves.
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The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
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Booklover in AZ –
When young I was an avid reader of Le Morte D’Arthur and other works about King Arthur. Then I lost that avidity in adulthood after I found myself gasping at the ghastly circumstances of the birth of Arthur and the brutality of the times. But I was intrigued with the news of The Bright Sword and this impressive author and bought it – and loved every word of it, every side path into the lives of the superb characters, and the reader’s own working through the same fog as the characters do to find their way. This is not a small book. It hints at almost a picaresque path, but only hints. The quest is an internal one, so marvelously developed…to the last page. While I leave the synopsis to others and the publisher, why I’m writing this is to convey my reaction as a reader and hope that others will open the book and continue the journey I took. This is my favorite book of the year so far, and I cannot part with the big blue book with the gorgeous cover, the memorable characters, and the journey into an imagined journey with the Knights of the Round Table.
Jon Shemitz –
I loved this book. I have no nits to pick with this book. I was a bit dubious (really, yet another King Arthur novel?) but it got good reviews, so I gave it a shot. Totally worth it!
This book will be banned in Florida: there’s sex and scatology and blasphemy; a gay knight and a trans knight; magic and adventure and cheerful, willing, historical violations. I laughed and laughed and kept reading – I only read it in two sittings because I had to get up in the morning.
Jay Martin –
Recalling that Arthur’s story was arguably mostly mythology, this is an interesting approach to the legend and other author’s writings about Arthur. The construction of the book – with the insertion of backstories in particular – can be a little off-putting. The protagonist while likable, is a bit formulaic – poor boy, mysterious background, etc etc. and of course you have the band of misfits. That said, still 5 stars as it all fits together nicely.
BK –
I’m not sure what I was expecting from this story, but it wasn’t this story. It’s messy, complicated, and completely jumbled. It’s not about Arthur or Excalibur or even Lancelot. It’s about trying to survive in a world where everything is a miracle, therefore nothing is. I’ll read this book again in about a year or two, and I suspect I’ll like it better then.
Harry A. Burnett –
There was a spot, close to the middle, when I was beaten back by the recent appearance of so much random fairie magic and skipped ahead 50 or more pages – to find, and be delighted that either the book had settled down or, more likely, I had. And finished it as accepting of that magic as I had been accepting of the rough manly work at the first third, which, in fact I had been getting tired of (as maybe the author was), to be thoroughly delighted by the fem-power and mixed metaphors and even a little wisdom for modern Britain, if not life in general, at the end.
Now back to those 50 pages!
Richard P. Jasper –
But I grew up with Mary Stewart and the anachronisms — which Grossman comprehensively acknowledges in the afterword — chafed. Eventually, I let go because Collum’s story, not Arthur’s, is the real one and it’s too good not to thoroughly enjoy. Until the very end I thought that I would give this one four stars but Grossman finally won me over. Bravo!
Maree W. –
Lev Grossman is good at writing characters that are deceptively ordinary, the ones that worm their way into your hearts before you’ve noticed that you’re invested. Sir Collum, the hedge knight from nowhere, who arrives too late to Camelot, after the fall of Arthur and the death and dissolution of the Knights of the Round Table, is a character like this. The Bright Sword is a slow burn; I was probably 40-50% of the way through the novel before it really hooked me. Grossman takes his time introducing each character and their motives, with chapters moving back and forth between past and present but somehow never disorienting the reader. He manages to combine research on the ancient post-Roman Britain with a healthy scoop of Celtic folklore plus the Arthurian mythology of later medieval romance to make something that reads as fresh and modern and emotionally honest. And on top of that, he writes a action and battle scenes no one I’ve ever seen. I have to admit that I am the exact target audience for this book, having grown up on Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon, so your mileage may vary. I loved The Bright Sword and will be thinking about it for a long time.
James Moore –
Had no idea what to expect but Lev Grossman (author of the excellent _The Magicians_ trilogy) has written a beautiful and thoughtful novel tying together the Arthurian mysteries.
Tremendous
Mr. Wallace W. Hargrave –
Fresh, humerus take on the tale of King Arthur
Freder –
Lev Gross is quite good at creating vivid worlds . It’s easy to fall into them and come up for air, surprised that you are back in reality. This work is no exception. Those at least somewhat familiar with Arthurian legends will be most comfortable. And, unsurprisingly, there are a lot of brutal fights. Characters are interesting, and the main character is one that the reader will care about.
All that being said, it runs somewhat too long and the end felt a bit muddy.
Nevertheless, well worth a read.