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The Broken Sword: The Return of King Arthur

The Broken Sword: The Return of King Arthur

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Arthur, Merlin and Life! Everything IS possible!
Review: A sequel that surpasses the original is a rare find. Molly Cochran & Warren Murphy have given us that rarity that is so joyful to find! Great characters, superb plot and above all a message for the ages. "All being is eternal and part of All That Is." "It is not important to prove the existance of the soul. All that matters is to perceive it." These thoughts are priceless and fit the Camelot that was and the one that, according to Molly & Warren, will be again. I can hardly wait to read more about Arthur, Merlin and the entire gang brought to life in so real a fashion. Really great writers can take a subject that I have loved for over 40 years and do it better than any I have previously read. I really do believe that ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE! Thanks, Molly! Thanks, Warren!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A bit disappointing
Review: After reading the truly wonderful "The Forever King", I could barely wait to delve into this sequel. After finishing the novel, I must admit that I felt some disappointment. The villian of the story is so similar to the villian in "The Forever King" that they might as well be clones. Arthur's Aunt Emily is barely in the story at all. Her brief appearance seems to hint at another sequel. A new character, Beatrice, is introduced. She spends most of the story in a hospital while Arthur stays at her bedside. The Knights of the Round Table are released from Camelot and join Hal on a quest to protect Arthur. The Knights are hopelessly outdated, and while this provides some great comic relief at first, the endless drinking and bar-wrecking become mind numbing.

The story once again revolves around a villian who is out to get the grail at any cost. I do hope that if Cochran & Murphy write another sequel, it will have a totally different plot and villian. I did like the book enough that I will buy the sequel if or when it is published, and I'll hope that it is as captivating as "The Forever King."

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A bit disappointing
Review: After reading the truly wonderful "The Forever King", I could barely wait to delve into this sequel. After finishing the novel, I must admit that I felt some disappointment. The villian of the story is so similar to the villian in "The Forever King" that they might as well be clones. Arthur's Aunt Emily is barely in the story at all. Her brief appearance seems to hint at another sequel. A new character, Beatrice, is introduced. She spends most of the story in a hospital while Arthur stays at her bedside. The Knights of the Round Table are released from Camelot and join Hal on a quest to protect Arthur. The Knights are hopelessly outdated, and while this provides some great comic relief at first, the endless drinking and bar-wrecking become mind numbing.

The story once again revolves around a villian who is out to get the grail at any cost. I do hope that if Cochran & Murphy write another sequel, it will have a totally different plot and villian. I did like the book enough that I will buy the sequel if or when it is published, and I'll hope that it is as captivating as "The Forever King."

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A sequel that does itself proud
Review: Again Cochran and Murphy have done themselves proud. They have taken one of the most written about legends, King Arthur and the Holy Grail, and breathed new life into an old legend. These two authors have done something that I personally didn't think could be done, they made King Arthur nobler than any legend you may have read. This book is exciting and fast paced so don't get any ideas about reading this book before you go to bed or else be ready to be awake all night. The only knock against the book could be the shifting of centuries in the story. Yet that is handled so well you wish they would have made this into two books so you could read their revision of the story and the modern story seperatley. I highly recommend this book and the prequel

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: AN OKAY BOOK
Review: Although I liked The Forever King better, I thought this was a good book. I liked the end a lot, but I think the authors should do a third book. The end practically leaves you hanging.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: all the expected hype a sequel should have.
Review: arthur is now thirteen years old.saladin has passed the torch to someone named aubrey who will stop at nothing to get and keep possession of the grail.hal ends up with the knights of the round table who are driving him nuts adjusting to life in the twentieth century.emily is gone.they meet a man nammed zack,I liked him.I'm waiting for book three.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not worth the time and effort
Review: As a follow up to The Forever King, this book is pointless. I felt as though the authors only wrote it because of their ealier success, not because they had a story to tell. The emphasis was not on Arthur or Artherian legend, this book details the life and rituals of Saladin, Arthur's evil rival for world domination.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: every bit as exciting as a sequel should be.
Review: aurthur is now thirteen years old.hal has been with him searching for emily all this time,when finnaly they meet.there reunion is short lived.salidin has passed the torch to someone else a man nammed aubry who will stop at nothing to have posession of the grail.also all the knights of the round table have been brought back to life but are having a rough time adapting to life in the twentieth century,driving hal crazy in the process. this sequel has 5 stars written all over it.a must read if you enjoyed the forever king... there also is a new character named zack,i must say HE`S THE MAN!!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great read, absolutely fantastic, the usual Cochran / Murphy
Review: Being a Murphy reader from the beginning (Destroyer, etc.)I found the plot enthralling, a page-turner I really could not put down. Keep them coming.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Aimless and clueless
Review: Confused and boring. While the main idea is interesting although not original, the characters are lifeless and the story didn't grip me.

The villain is _evil_, so evil in fact, that I didn't even bother to ask myself why he was doing all this. The author tries to make him a character, I think, but he remains a cardboard cutout. I soon began to skip over the chapters about him - they were mostly an orgy in occultic practises, with gory details meant to show the readers how evil he is. I've seen it before in other books.

The good guys seem mostly clueless and nice - although the author tried to make them threedimensional individuals, mostly by showing us a lot of angst. It simply didn't work.

King Arthur's knights, woken from a sleep that had lasted from the Middle Ages, are from the "medieval people looked like and thought much like a motorcycle gang" school of thought. I am not even going to begin discussing my views on that one.

I'm interested in the Arthur Legends, and have read rather a lot of different takes on them. Most of them are vastly superior to this one. If you want to read about Arthur, I can recommend T. H. White's 'The Once and Future King', Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy, 'Camelot 3000' (comic) and Rosemary Sutcliffe's 'The Sword and the Circle'.


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