One of the three books I've been reading the last coupl weeks was "Gawain and Lady Green." I picked it out at Barnes & Noble when I was up in Salt Lake with Kristy. It caught my interest beacuse I've always been a sucker for a story that takes place during the time of knights and kings, peasants and princesses. Plus, this one had the added bonus of being about a knight from King Arthur's Round Table. (Confession Saturday Morning: I love Arthurian stories)
This story, however, I did not like. It was the novelization of the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Now, let me be clear. I thought the author did a fantasic job of writing the book like an old medieval text. The story itself, however, left a lot to be desired. I'm going to be honest, I've never read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, so I was going into this book with no expectations except that it had to be good. I mean, it was about a knight and a woman who falls in love with him. How could that be bad?
It was weird. **Spoiler alert** There were fairies, druids, magicians, lying, kidnapping, love, betrayal, and death. The people I thought would end up together didn't. Gawain gets killed and Lady Green ends up with the creepy druid guy from her village. Dumb. And dumber. Bottom line. Don't read it. Unless you want to read a book that doesn't have a happy ending.
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