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The White Enchantress by Caitriona Drexler
5.0
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Warnings: explicit sex scenes, rape, death of parent, death of spouse, depression, bullying, partner abuse, hp references

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The White Enchantress is a King Arthur retelling that starts as a contemporary romance novel before sucking the reader back into a fifth-century historical romance. 
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This is the second novel by Drexler that I've read and once again she sucked me in. In this novel we follow Guinevere as she falls back in time to a who new world and discovers who she is. She is stuck between a rock and a hard place -- because she grew up knowing many of the various legends of King Arthur and Lancelot -- she is unsure of her role in the version she is living. Guinevere grows so much as a person throughout this novel and I honestly love her. Because this is also a dual POV novel we also get to learn more about Lancelot and his life alongside King Arthur. I'm very angry at one of those two guys anyone care to guess who? 

Couple quotes that stuck with me.

"Though our voices may be docile and soft, our words are powerful and fierce. Men only pretend not to listen to us."

"I don't give two shits about what you are offering me. I choose my own path. I write my own story. And you are not on it."

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