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Gawain & Lady Green (Arthurian novel)
""You love me, Lady Green. Even as I love you.""
Gwyneth wasn't supposed to fall in love with Gawain. Not like this. Gawain was the May King-a sacrifice offered to the Goddess for a bountiful harvest in return. Gwyneth knows this. His fate has been decided by powers beyond her control. But the warmth of his touch and the taste of his lips have blurred the lines of what she...more
Gwyneth wasn't supposed to fall in love with Gawain. Not like this. Gawain was the May King-a sacrifice offered to the Goddess for a bountiful harvest in return. Gwyneth knows this. His fate has been decided by powers beyond her control. But the warmth of his touch and the taste of his lips have blurred the lines of what she...more
Paperback, 214 pages
Published
December 1st 2010
by Sourcebooks Fire
(first published April 1st 1997)
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The last section of this book is based firmly on the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, even lifting lines from the fourteenth century Middle English original. However Gawain is a chaste and virtuous 'gentil parfait' knight in that poem and he is certainly not in Crompton's retelling.
In fact, her beginning has much in common with the French versions of Gawain’s story, where he is very much the lady's man. However, the parallels are only very loose. Nothing French fits the start with the same...more
In fact, her beginning has much in common with the French versions of Gawain’s story, where he is very much the lady's man. However, the parallels are only very loose. Nothing French fits the start with the same...more
In this tale of Arthurian romance for young adults, Lady Green, witch and priestess to the Goddess, but decide between her people and her love when Gawain stumbles into their May Day celebration. Crowned the May King, Gawain must be sacrificed at summer's end to ensure the next year's crop and his fate is outside Lady Green's control. Or is it.
I had high hopes for this tale but was terribly disappointed. Gawain, the Christian Knight is portrayed as a prideful and arrogant fool. Yet, he is also p...more
I had high hopes for this tale but was terribly disappointed. Gawain, the Christian Knight is portrayed as a prideful and arrogant fool. Yet, he is also p...more
To be fair, I didn't finish this book. I only was able to sit through about 25 pages and put it down, so keep in mind my review and judgement is based on this beginning.
This book didn't hold me. I couldn't read any longer.
And I have a major gripe with it. Mainly that this was placed in the YA section. This book should not be considered YA, it should be in the adult fantasy/sci-fi section. Reason being? Way too much sexuality and the fact that Lady Green is a teenage mother. I'm sorry but I simpl...more
This book didn't hold me. I couldn't read any longer.
And I have a major gripe with it. Mainly that this was placed in the YA section. This book should not be considered YA, it should be in the adult fantasy/sci-fi section. Reason being? Way too much sexuality and the fact that Lady Green is a teenage mother. I'm sorry but I simpl...more
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Pretty good read. I was kinda bored in the beginning, having read Gawain and the Green Knight, I kept waiting for *that* portion of the story to begin. This story actually has a pre-story to the original that's important for the set up of the retelling of the rest of the tale. So, it's important to read and then you get it and it's like "oh"!
And for some reason this is marketed as a YA book, but it's not really. I mean someone 14 years old could read it and enjoy it and it would be fine, but it'...more
And for some reason this is marketed as a YA book, but it's not really. I mean someone 14 years old could read it and enjoy it and it would be fine, but it'...more
Jun 27, 2008
Sidhe
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Fans of Arthurian fiction
In this novel Crompton retells the Arthurian legend of Gawain and the Green Knight in such a way that is both enchanting and believable. Sir Gawain of Camelot has lost his companions, his supplies and his way when he stumbles upon a Beltane celebration in a rural Celtic village. Riding into the celebration with the intention of demanding hospitality, Gawain is unwilling crowned May King, an honor which may prove to be more dangerous than it seems. The only hope for the haughty nobleman to ever r...more
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As the novel opens, Gawain is a big entitled git. Admittedly, he has reasons for being surly, since he's being kept in the village as the May King, and his horse has been killed, his weapons taken... Still, even before that, he just expects to be given whatever he wants, just because he's a knight. He's a very young Gawain.
The writing-style seems... amateurish. Gawain's thoughts, for example, are amateurish, and the transition between third person limited to Gawain and third person limited to La...more
The writing-style seems... amateurish. Gawain's thoughts, for example, are amateurish, and the transition between third person limited to Gawain and third person limited to La...more
I went back and forth between thinking this was an okay book and being utterly disgusted with it. its suppose to be a feminist retelling and the premise is good... a woman who is priestess and a powerful figure in her community would be a powerful feminist figure if she wasn't portrayed as manipulative and evil. mostly it was just insulting.
Aug 28, 2009
Karen
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Sheepngoat1
Interesting variation on an old tale.
One of the few Knights at the Roundtable books I have read.
Apr 17, 2013
Christine Drosehn
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Apr 14, 2013
Sarah McLain
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1 of 5 stars
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Shelves:
fiction-with-out-catagory
Mar 12, 2013
Rosemary Bell
marked it as to-read
Mar 06, 2013
Lisa Able
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Shelves:
historical,
young-adult
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ANNE ELIOT CROMPTON is an award-winning author of children's books. She has raised ponies and goats and painted wildlife. Born to Ethel Cook Eliot (a writer) and Samuel Eliot (a professor) she attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart (now Doane Stuart School) in Albany, New York. She worked briefly in Providence, Florida; then married Willard Crompton and moved to the small hill town of Chesterfie...more
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