![]() She comes across as weak and strong, driven and passive, at various points along the story. The main character of this story is clearly Morgaine, later Morgan la Fay, and her struggles to unite Britain with its pagan half as the weight of the Christian world force Avalon deeper into the realm of fairies. ![]() Even knowing the history of the saga, or watching the television series based on this book, didn’t keep me from being surprised in places and moved by the quality of both characters and story. ![]() It comes across as odd to the casual Arthurian reader, as the stories were about the Knights of the Round Table and their quests. Except for the scrying on Galahad with the Holy Grail, the main focus is kept tight on the women of the myths. ![]() Told this time through the female characters. Mists of Avalon is a reworking, retelling and re-imagining of the Arthur Pendragon saga. Most of these underwritten descriptions provided a rash cattiness to the characters that seems standard in this genre. The stock actions, and trite descriptors made me feel that the female characters where being underwritten and not given the attention or development that they deserved. Those wishing to avoid spoilers have been duly warned with this sentence as spoilers may follow.Ī friend recommended this book to me as my complaints of basic female characters in the fantasy fiction I’ve been reading had gotten out of hand. ![]()
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