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the comic relief only occupies maybe 10% of our time.

and some plot-important incest happen in the last two chapters.

The time period of the setting is kind of weird. It's explicitly the 12th century (and Uther Pendragon is William the Conqueror and 200 years old??) but the sensibilities of everything are very Victorian, and not just because Merlyn remembers backwards This is definitely done on purpose, and would make more sense if this was more solidly a comedy, but

White is some kind of expert at writing books in which absolutely nothing happens.

Book 1: Merlyn turns Wart into a long sequence of things. I think these are all supposed to teach him different lessons about kingship, but if so they were too subtle for me. In the literal last chapter the sword is introduced, drawn, and he becomes King.

Book 2: There are some Scots. Arthur is preparing for a battle. Battle and some

I thought this was mostly going to be about university. But it's mostly about Catholicism. Written just long enough ago that the prose style is still awesome. Why does no-one write like that anymore?