Reviewed by Stephen K.
TITLE: Darkest Knight
SERIES: Guardians of Camelot #3
AUTHOR: Victoria Sue
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 249 pages
RELEASE DATE: Nov 3, 2020
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Destined to be together.
Kay of Isca knows Charles St. John is his fated soul mate, but between battle, duty, and saving the world, staying in the same reality, never mind the same bed, is proving a bit more of a challenge than either stubborn man will admit.
The malicious armies of Morgan le Fay are gathering, and the chance that one of their friends has already been lost to evil is a real possibility too terrifying to contemplate.
Nothing is ever as it seems, but unless Kay can unravel the vile plans centuries in the making, they won’t just die before they get a chance to love.
They’ll die before they get a chance to live.
REVIEW:
The author continues her incredible, complex tale of Arthurian knights in modern day New York City battling the magical beasts conjured by Morgan la Fay and her minions.
This time the knight having “tresor trouble” is Kay. While he’s convinced that he’d met his tresor in the person of the Hospitaller knight, Charles, Charles isn’t convinced.
This is the third installment in the Guardians of Camelot series and the earlier somewhat muddled aspect of the storytelling due to filling in backstory and revealing additional plot twists was a bit easier to follow this time around than in book two. But that and the inability of knights and “tresors” to get together without one or the other objecting, disbelieving, or disappearing is beginning to feel a bit formulaic.
In a way, we now have all the knights with their “tresors,” and the way has been cleared for the final battle in the next and final book in the series. Yet, I’m hoping that before we get the epic final battle, we get a good healthy dose of romance between the last two that were united. Neither one of those last two were in any real shape for any romantic action given the way that this book ended.
The saga is compelling and at points brilliant. I will certainly want to read book four soon, but I am suffering a bit from epic-quest fatigue. It’s a bit like the chivalry-lit equivalent of an ice-cream headache. While I’ve enjoyed each and every one of the books in this series I recognize I need to slow down a bit in order to fully appreciate the final denouement.
If you’re a fan of epic fantasy, enjoy Arthurian legends, enjoy in-depth world building, not to mention an intricate and sometimes complicated plot involving the struggle between good and evil, then this is a series you really should explore. But slowly! Ice-cream head-aches can be the worst.
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