Sänger und Seher - Die Pendragon-Saga Serie Piper 2611; Die Pendragon-Saga #1
taschenbuch, 575 pages
German language
Published April 1, 1997 by Piper.
It was a time of legend, when the last shadows of the mighty Roman conqueror faded from the captured Isle of Britain. While across a vast sea, bloody war shattered a peace that had flourished for two thousand years in the doomed kingdom of Atlantis.
Taliesin is the remarkable adventure of Charis, the Atlantean princess who escaped the terrible devastation of her homeland, and of the fabled seer and druid prince Taliesin, singer at the dawn of the age. It is the story of an incomparable love that joined two worlds amid the fires of chaos, and spawned the miracles of Merlin...and Arthur the king.
I picked this up a while ago and was looking forward to seeing another take on the Arthurian myth. But this book was a real disapointment.
It's slow to the point of being plodding and I found myself unable to care about any of the characters. Talesin is a 512 page prologue to a larger work that I will never read.
Personally I was hoping for a bit more magic. It was a tough book to get into because of the sheer number of characters and the switching back and forth between the two stories. Once you get into it though it becomes more interesting, I'm looking forward to the other books in the series but I have to say I'm not dying to read them.
