Customer Reviews
Enjoyable, workmanlike, a little misleading - By: K. Partner, 27 May 2008 
Read the synopsis on this site & take a guess at which pointin the book Arthur actually pulls the sword from the stone? That's right,in the last 10 pages!
This series has been enjoyable, if a bit undemanding. Whyte enjoys exposition (the next book: The Lance Thrower has the longest exposition sequence I've ever read) a little too much & at the expense of action. The fact that I've made it this far through suggests that these books are readable but Whyte is a workmanlike writer rather than a page-turner.
Reading Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series (and his absolutely superb Warlord Chronicles featuring a very different Arthur to here) is like a breath of fresh air since he is a writer of economy & action.
Having said all that, I like these books but I would recommend reading The Warlord Chronicles first, they'rein a different league.
Sixth Book in the Camulod Series - By: J. Chippindale, 28 Jan 2008 
Jack Whyte was born & raisedin Scotland, but has livedin Canada for the last forty odd years. He is the author of the Camulod series of books & has just had published the firstin a trilogy about probably the most famous Order of knights, ever to come through the pages of history, the Knights Templar.
This is the sixth bookin what has turned out to be a terrific series. Yes there are some reader's who do not like the approach of the author to the subject of Arthur & they have every right to voice their opinion. Personally I feel that the time frame he has placed Arthurin sits wellin my own mind but if the truth be told none of us know whether Arthur actually existed never mind the period he lived in, so it is all pure conjecture. He certainly did not ride aroundin tournament armour, as Hollywood would have us believe. That type of armour was perfected several hundred years after the time that he may have lived.. He is much more likely to have lived at the time that Jack Whyte places him.
In this, the sixth book, Merlin, Arthur's guardian & mentor has realized that the time is right for his dream to come to fruition. He has groomed young Arthur away from prying eyes, there is nothing more than can be done. It is time to present Arthur as the High King of Britain, a role that he was born for. Merlin cannot protect the boy from his destiny any longer . . .
What happened to Jack Whyte? - By: Daniel Dean, 08 Feb 2001 I loved the first four books of Whyte's Camulod Chronicles, but apparently he lost his wayin Fort At River's Bend (book 5). Nowin Sorcerer, he has recovered quite a bit, but still fails to hold a candle to his previous works.
Finally, Whyte resolves dozens of our expectations & dangling questions. Certain characters have died, as we knew they must. Camulod is becoming less Roman, & more like the Arthurian Britain we all know. Merlin has now become the sorcerer, & Arthur has pulled the sword from the stone & become King of all Britain.
Unfortunately, the mannerin which he did all this... left me far from impressed. While Whyte had spent immense detail on every little meaningless eventin previous books, he then chaotically rushed through these MAIN events we have been waiting for since The Skystone.
It's a shame, but after six books- I am no longer interestedin how this series will turn out.
read it today! - By: , 12 Jun 1999 
these books convey a sense of being there, you share Merlyns truimphs & sadness as he guides young Arthur to his destiny. The whole series of these books presents an exiciting & imaginative view of how ancient Britain may have been. Jack Whyte must finish this series!
Another solid A-1 success - By: , 08 Jun 1999 What can you say? Whyte is tremendous. The story goes on, with the twists & turns we have grown to expect.
Buy it! Read it! You will love it!!!
Gosh, I hope that Jack does not come to an unexpected end prior to finishing this wonderful series.
