I read this book as a young boy in third grade. It completely changed what I expected from a book and helped gear my tastes in reading at an early age. This is the story of three kids living in a post-apocalyptic world. There are some standard tropes, the nerdy book girl who is very smart and turns pretty, and the strange separate child who is much more than he seems.

There are small humorous touches in this book as the children attempt to understand the world that comes before them, one of them More...

One of my favorites as a kid, and a book that I read several times. It introduced me to the part of the Arthurian legend that claimed he would come again to save England in her hour of greatest need . . . which would be when? In this book, it's after a nuclear war which has changed the face of the world. I mostly remember it always being overcast, bleak, rather feudal in social matters but with some technology. A pair of misfits at a boarding school befriend a charismatic new student who begins More...

One of my favourites from childhood.

After the nuclear devastation, magic reclaims the world.

Okay, the main characters are three misfit kids at boarding school... but the similarities end there

This is part of the blurb:
The nuclear holocaust is history. The survivors have a name for it: the Devastation. At boarding school in what used to be called Wales, three...kids eager for adventure form a secret society. Welly, Heather, and their new friend Earl, a foundling with no memory of his past.
...Ev More...

I remember reading this as a kid and loving it! I would like to re-read it sometime as I can't quite remember all the particulars but I remember the contrasting combination of the futuristic post-nuclear holocaust setting with the ancient characters of Merlin and King Arthur being pretty fun and interesting.

I read this book years ago, like in middle school, and it bugged me that I could never remember what it was called. But it is a solid little scifi/fantasy tale combining the legend of King Arthur with a nuclear winter that is finally ending. It has good characters, good action, good description, and I could easily see it as a young adult movie in our current age of obsession with such things.

One of my friends loved this book when I was young, but I could just never get into it. Reading it as an adult, it's not bad, but there were things that just didn't add up that got under my skin.

I read the beginning of this in middle school, I think, and it stuck with me all this time. (I was into post-apocalyptic stories even then.) So glad that Sharon reintroduced me to it!

This is one of those books that I loved when I was a kid and that I'd be afraid to go back and reread now in case it is not that good. At a certain point in my reading career, however, this book blew my mind: the desolate post-nuclear winter English landscape, cold and snowy and inhabited by strange mutants; the medievalish culture built on the ruins of the present; the reawakening of magic... Probably, this is not, objectively, a great book. But it certainly captured my imagination to the point More...

I loved this book when I read it as a kid and intend to read it again so I can put a real rating on it. My young self would have enthusiastically given it 5 stars.

Still awesome 20 years later! :)

Love this book! One of my favorite YA novels from my youth. Longer review to come. :)

Service, Pamela F.