a slow start but clarity emerges
Daughter of Camelot (Empire of Shadows #1) by Glynis Cooney Wales at the waning of Camelot. The High King's star is failing. Guinevere has been unfaithful, Lancelot has killed Gareth, Merlin has disappeared from court and the land is on the edge of breaking up into smaller kingdoms Arthur had bound together. Darkness is about to descend. The tide is turning against the High King. The threat of minor kingdoms devouring each looms. The opening scene of Deirdre practicing sword play with her brother Rhys gave evidence that here was a somewhat unusual sort of girl for the times. Indeed she is. Deirdre has ambitions beyond being a wife and mother and yearns to go to Camelot. However dreams are not always answered in the way we would wish. When Deirdre is sent to the court at Degannwy with her sister Nia she is the butt of unkind comments. Reviled by the superstitious for being a twin, and all but accused of being a witch she is spurned by the devout...