{"id":109,"date":"2005-08-09T19:40:02","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T02:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=109"},"modified":"2021-06-02T18:33:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T22:33:58","slug":"in-camelots-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/109","title":{"rendered":"In Camelot’s Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Camelot’s Shadow<\/a><\/em> (2004) Sarah Zettel<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I knew when I started the book that this was going to be a fantasy\/romance. Perhaps for that reason, or perhaps because the romance was well done, and I haven’t read a well written romance before. But whatever the reason, I really liked this book.<\/p>\n

I picked it up because I had read a positive review, and then came across a used copy, and so decided to take a chance. And because it has a gorgeous cover. Yay for strong beautiful women, and yay for cover at that gets things precisely right. The character and costume are exactly as described in the book, but the cover doesn’t give away any of the story.<\/p>\n

As far as historical accuracy, oddly enough my knowledge of legend and folklore has a huge hole in it the size of Camelot–I may own La Mort d’Arthur<\/em>, but I haven’t yet gotten around to reading it. So everything I know of Camelot comes from The Mists of Avalon<\/em>. However since I don’t know the story, I wasn’t bothered by the fact that the story wasn’t accurate, so that’s probably a good thing.<\/p>\n

The story is of Risa’s flight from her father’s deal with a sorcerer, and Sir Gawain attempt to save her from her plight. However, I was quite pleased with the fact that Risa wasn’t waiting around to be rescued, but was instead going about attempting to rescue herself. Again, this may well be historically inaccurate, but I have no interest in reading about women waiting around to be saved, so this was perfect.<\/p>\n

The book seems a combination of modern and historical–Risa is a strong woman, probably stronger than one might have found at that time, but not unreasonably so, given that she was an only child, doted on by her parents. But even if it is unreasonable given the context (and I don’t know if it is or not) it doesn’t bother me, because I’m used to fantasy placed in a setting where women can be strong without causing comment. She was, however, concerned with propriety; knowing that travelling alone with a man, even a knight, it would be assume that her virtue had been compromised. But she wasn’t that concerned. Again, no clue if it’s historically accurate, but it was interesting.<\/p>\n

So I liked this book, and enjoyed it although it was a departure from y normal fare, the romance wasn’t too overwhemling, and was tame enough that I will have no problem loaning this book to my grandmother.
\nRating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Camelot’s Shadow (2004) Sarah Zettel I knew when I started the book that this was going to be a fantasy\/romance. Perhaps for that reason, or perhaps because the romance was well done, and I haven’t read a well written romance before. But whatever the reason, I really liked this book. I picked it up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,30,2,33,291,26],"tags":[327,301],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-10","category-british","category-fantasy","category-historical","category-paper","category-romance","tag-camelot","tag-sarah-zettel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":169,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/169","url_meta":{"origin":109,"position":0},"title":"For Camelot’s Honor","author":"Michelle","date":"December 24, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"For Camelot's Honor (2005) Sarah Zettel In a burst of paranoia, I held of reading this book, for fear that it wouldn't be as good as the previous in this series, In Camelot's Shadow. Once again I was proven to be just that--paranoid. I was pleased to discover that Sarah\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "8\/10"","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Camelots-Honor.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4396,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4396","url_meta":{"origin":109,"position":1},"title":"In Camelot’s Shadow","author":"Michelle","date":"February 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"In Camelot's Shadow (2004) Sarah Zettel I originally picked this book up because I fell in love with the cover. This is one of my favorite book covers, ever. It's gorgeous, it's romantic, and it shows an active heroine not in need to rescue, but capable of defending herself. Luckily,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "8.5\/10"","block_context":{"text":"8.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Camelots-Shadow.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":224,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/224","url_meta":{"origin":109,"position":2},"title":"Under Camelot’s Banner","author":"Michelle","date":"April 12, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Under Camelot's Banner (2006) Sarah Zettel Under Camelot's Banner is the third book in Sarah Zettel's Camelot series. There isn't a specific name for this series, but all the books have Camelot in the title, so that's obvious enough. Books published by Luna typically have a romantic or erotic element,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "British"","block_context":{"text":"British","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/british"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Camelots-Banner.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":606,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/606","url_meta":{"origin":109,"position":3},"title":"By Camelot’s Blood","author":"Michelle","date":"July 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"By Camelot's Blood (2008) Sarah Zettel I've been waiting for this book since before Luna lost it's collective mind and dropped Sarah Zettel and this series. (And if anyone from Luna reads this, it's made me more reluctant to buy books in the Luna line, wondering if another series I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "British"","block_context":{"text":"British","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/british"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/Camelots-Blood.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4489,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4489","url_meta":{"origin":109,"position":4},"title":"Under Camelot’s Banner","author":"Michelle","date":"March 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Under Camelot's Banner (2005) Sarah Zettel Lynet Carnbrea is the daughter of Steward Kenan, the man who holds Camilard for Queen Guinevere, whose name is under a shadow, for she acted as a go-between for Tristan and Iseult. Shamed, and broken by her penance, she is seen as damaged goods,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "British"","block_context":{"text":"British","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/british"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Camelots-Banner.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4479,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4479","url_meta":{"origin":109,"position":5},"title":"For Camelot’s Honor","author":"Michelle","date":"March 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"For Camelot's Honor (2005) Sarah Zettel I still love the cover, but the contents didn't live up to my memory. I'm not saying it was a bad story--it's not--I just remember it as being fabulous, and instead it's just fine. Elen is the daughter of a Welsh chieftan, and King\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "British"","block_context":{"text":"British","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/british"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Camelots-Honor.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}