Review "Sorcerer: Metamorphosis" By Jack Whyte

"Sorcerer" is the next book in Mr. Whyte's Camulod series. In this book Arthur comes of age (finally!) and Merlyn changes from military leader to sorcerer. Merlyn completes Arthur's training and leads him back home to fight a war and assume the throne.

Mr. Whyte does an excellent job of describing an era when Arthur could have existed and how the essential elements of the story could have come about (Merlyn, Camelot, the Sword, the round table, close friends from Scotland, etc.) And his setting seems to be very historically accurate to me (Saxons and Danes invading Britain and driving everyone before them.....some fringes of Roman civilization hanging on, Celts, Druids, etc.)

While I have stated before that this series is slow (and it is), I enjoyed it. It is a new and interesting take on the Arthurian legend using the historical fiction approach. But if you wanted to read a series about Arthur I would point you toward Mary Stewart or Bernard Cornwell first.

There are two more books in the series, but I am in no rush to read them.