by Jack Whyte
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We know the legends: Arthur brought justice to a land that had known only cruelty and force; his father, Uther, carved a kingdom out of the chaos of the fallen Roman Empire; the sword Excalibur, drawn from stone by England's greatest king.
But legends do not tell the whole tale. Legends do not tell of the despairing Roman soldiers, abandoned by their empire, faced with the choice of fleeing back to Rome, or struggling to create a last stronghold against the barbarian onslaughts from the north and east. Legends do not tell of Arthur's great-grandfather, Publius Varrus, the warrior who marked the boundaries of a reborn empire with his own shed blood; they do not tell of Publius's wife, Luceiia, British-born and Roman-raised, whose fierce beauty burned pale next to her passion for law and honor.
With The Camulod Chronicles, Jack Whyte tells us what legend has forgotten: the history of blood and violence, passion and steel, out of which was forged a great sword, and a great nation. The Singing Sword continues the gripping epic begun in The Skystone: As the great night of the Dark Ages falls over Roman Britain, a lone man and woman fight to build a last stronghold of law and learning--a crude hill-fort, which one day, long after their deaths, will become a great city . . . known as Camelot.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Continuing the epic Skystone saga, 2008-03-17
The is the second fascinating chapter of Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles. While I didn't enjoy this one quite as much as I did the first installment, it's still a very addicting and enjoyable read. At times it seemed a little overly verbose in the discussion of Roman military tactics, which to me killed the pacing a little bit. In the end I understand why Jack Whyte did this. This book primarily focusses on the development of the colony set up towards the end of the Skystone. In order to give the reader the true breadth of changes that Caius and Publius set in motion for the colony, the explanation of the improvement of roman military tactics in order to keep up with the ever evolving world around their little colony was necessary. While it was a little drawn out at times, it gives the reader a sense of epic wheels of change the founders set in motion.
I don't want to spoil anything, but the book brings back all the characters from the first book as well as a few new characters, some of which are easily recognizeable. That's all I'll say on that!
I can't wait to get my hands on the next chapter to see where Whyte goes with this epic tale next!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent Begining, 2008-02-27
The Singing Sword is a really excellent beginning to a 9 volume saga of historic fiction (merging with mythology) which attempts to set the Arthur legend into what we can realistically know about Britain starting in the 5th century of the common era.
The author has done his homework; there is great verisimiltude in the details of how the Roman legions (where we start) were organized and how they operated in the far reaches of the Empire. He obviously has closely studied much of the historical record regarding how the fall of the Empire impacted the complex nature of the polity in Britain at the time.
But like good historical fiction, he interplays his research and narrative with interesting characters, each of whom have a political outlook which seems to represent major factions of the time.
It's fast-paced, compelling, and a page turner. Before I was half-way through, I had ordered the sequal.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Excellent Book, 2007-03-08
I'm a person who loves books about King Arthur and that period of time. This is an excellent book in my mind the thing that might give some people a problem is the sometimes racy scences. I read my first book by Jack Whyte called Knights of the Black and White and fell in love with that one and now I've fell in love with this series.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Sex and violence in Somerset, 2007-02-13
The second volume of a an interesting series putting the Camelot myth in a real historical setting. Maybe a little slower than the first volume and has rather more explicit sex; which may be a consideration if you are thinking of giving this series to a young person. Lots of action and almost too graphic detail of battles - heads cleaved open, brains spilling out and blood everywhere. But the historical detail is great, the characters well drawn, the weaving of myth and reality is masterful. A good read for those who like their action graphic and a smattering of sex to keep up their interest in the slow sections.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 S...L...O...W Going, 2007-01-27
The fist novel in the series was quite good. This one, the second, is bloated and slow going, with little action and page after page of windy, tedious, and oftentimes wholly unnecessary dialogue. Characters telling each other---in stilted, monologue fashion---what they're going to do followed by the author then describing in detail that very thing being done, which is redundant, unnecessary, and irritating enough early on, and over the course of this 300-plus page novel, infuriating. One hopes that the rest of the novels in the series will be better.
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