I received a free e-book copy through a read-to-review board in the YA LGBT Books group in Goodreads.

In Children of the Knight, King Arthur of old legend is back - and in Los Angeles. His mission is to help the children who have been targeted and neglected by adult society. Many of these children are homeless or live in abusive homes, and two of the main boys the book focuses on have been thrown from their homes for being gay.

Mark and Jack became friends on the street, where they turned to sex work for survival. When Lance, our main character, first meets them, he uses a slur towards them and expresses an inability to work with them, because of what their sexuality is. Over the course of the book, this changes, and ask three boys become very close.

Although the main focus of the book is on Arthur's mission, and the experiences of all the children (his knights) that have made it a necessity, my heart was with the gay boys the whole time, because their story is closest to my heart.

I won't spoil anything, but I will say that I cried for at least an hour and a half at two different parts of the story, and that people who will be triggered by deep exploration of feelings of worthlessness, unworthiness, guilt, rape, and death, should think before reading this book and make sure doing so will be safe for them. That said, this book was amazing and I'm very glad to have had this opportunity to read it.