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Once & Future by Cory McCarthy, A.R. Capetta
5.0

Long live the king

I grew up in the legends of king Arthur and I adore everything and anything to do with Camelot. This book was incredible. I thought it was a stand alone but I am delighted there is a sequel on the way and can't wait to read it. It was a nice twist on the old tale, Arthur in space, and I liked how events and history repeated for Merlin and Morgana (two deeply complex and interesting characters) I also loved the fact that Morgana wasn't Turkey evil and Merlin wasn't perfectly good but they learned from their past and they were both acting out on profound loss. What I especially enjoyed from this novel was it was set in a world where being gay, bi, trans, non-binary and lesbian was the norm and words like homophobia or racism did not exist. That was beautiful and I hope we can live in a world like that one day (without intergalactic evil company's of course)

Overall a refreshing spin on the old tale with a fresh set of Knights and a new round table on an epic space mission. It was slightly confusing at first but once I got into the flow of it I was lost in this AMAZING world. Fans of Merlin will love this and you don't have to know the tales of King Arthur to enjoy. Highly recommend.