![]() ![]() ![]() Isolde is a competent woman, and as a healer, she is able to get into and out of places that otherwise - even as high queen - she wouldn’t be able to. There is much positioning for power, negotiating, and war-making, which sounds more boring than it actually is. ![]() While Elliott includes a fantasy element with Isolde’s Sight and ventures into the Arthurian world, it’s more a gritty, political book than anything else. It’s only through her own wits, abilities, and the help of a half-Saxon prisoner named Trystan, that she’s able to escape and find a way to prove to the court the truth about Lord Marche. Especially since she knows - due to a rare Sight-influenced vision - that Constantine was murdered by Lord Marche, who is scheming for the high kingship himself. However, seven short years after their crowning, Constantine is dead and Isolde fears for her own life. Isolde, who is Mordred’s bastard daughter by Guinevere, was made high queen soon after her father’s death, by marriage to King Constantine. The story picks up where the Arthurian legends leave off: Arthur has been betrayed by his bastard son, Mordred, and both are dead. Twilight of Avalon takes two ancient myths - Arthur and Tristan and Isolde - and fuses them together into a political/romance/historical/fantasy. ![]()
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