That sounds scary, but really what she’s trying to do is save the environment. Our three main characters are Sir Kay, Sir Lancelot, and Mariam, an eco-terrorist. But this time, this time something is seriously different. This means, of course, that they’ve been woken up quite a lot over the course of their thousand plus years of existing. All the knights would never permanently die - instead, they would sleep under their trees, and awaken when the realm was in peril. And then Merlin did some magicy-things, and made them all immortal. You see, a long, long time ago, the original Arthurian Legend happened. Perilous Times borrows familiar characters from the Arthurian legend, but definitely isn’t a retelling or spinoff or anything like that. Perilous Times seemed like it would be right up my alley, and yep. Any opportunity to dive into a different version of this tale, and I’m all in. I gobbled that show up, and then Camelot the musical, then Disney’s Sword in the Stone, then Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and well, you see where I’m going with this. I have since I was little and first watched the miniseries with Sam Neill as Merlin. Luckily, Excalibur lies within reach–and Kay’s starting to suspect that the hero fit to carry it is close at hand.

In perilous times like these, the realm doesn’t just need a knight.

And if their plans can’t be stopped, a dragon will be the least of the planet’s worries. Lancelot is back too–at the beck and call of immortal beings with a sinister agenda. So when she meets Kay, a figure straight out of legend, she dares to hope that the world’s finally found the savior it needs.Īs the two quest through this strange land swarming with gangs, mercenaries, and talking squirrels, they realize that other ancient evils are afoot. But she’s just one ordinary person, up against a hopelessly broken system. Mariam’s devoted her life to fighting what’s wrong with her country. The dragon that’s running amok, that he can handle. But now he finds himself in a strange new world where oceans have risen, armies have been privatized, and half of Britain’s been sold to the Chinese. After a thousand years, he thought he was used to dealing with a crisis. Kay fought at Hastings, and at Waterloo, and in both World Wars. Thank you to Netgalley and Ballantine for providing an ARC copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.Īn immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet-saving the politically polarized, rapidly warming world from itself-in this slyly funny contemporary take on Arthurian legend.īeing reborn as an immortal defender of the realm gets awfully damn tiring over the years-or at least that’s what Sir Kay’s thinking as he claws his way up from beneath the earth, yet again. CONTENT WARNINGS: Violence, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny.

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