When was the first time you heard about King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table? I was a kid and Disney had just started playing The Sword in the Stone – not the most accurate to the original story line. Then I heard about the quest for the Holy Grail as a teenager. And now as an adult I’ve seen a few renditions of Merlin and Arthur appearing in modern times, being made into a Showtime series and even receiving visitors from the future into their court.

You would think that this story has been done or overplayed. And perhaps Daniel Diehl would agree with you in regards to Merlin’s relationship with King Arthur. But in his latest series he’s focusing on another one of Merlin’s relationships from the time of Arthur – the one between him and Morgan LeFey, the daughter of Uther, who never saw the throne thanks to the appearance of her half-brother.

1500 years later…

Can Merlin turn the up-tight, nerdy archaeology student into his next Arthur? Will Merlin ever discover the way in which to defeat Morgan? Will Morgan ever release her dragon friends from their homeland and destroy the modern world as we know it?

Don’t look for all these to be answered in this book. This is only book one. I think Diehl did a great job at giving some hope and closure at the end of this story without foretelling too much of what’s about to unfold in the subsequent books to come. I’m looking forward to continuing the series so I can find out the answer to these questions.

This book is linked with the post “e-Book Review: The Merlin Chronicles: Revelation by Daniel Diehl”.