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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: 3 stars
Summary: Hey, it's OK.
Review: It's OK to like this book. it's friendly, it's fuzzy, it's... it is, in the end, a kid's book written for adults. Or an adults book, written for kids. Thoroughly enjoyable, a good adventure based on all the old stories and fables. It's a yarn that needed to be told (wasn't Arthur known as the once and future king?) and Cochran and Murphy tell it well.

The sequel will be interesting - a republican king? And what will Charles, Camilla, Henry, and all that pasty-faced lot do?

Listen - if you have any interest in the Arthurian stories, you'll have to read it, because it does add to the lexicon.

But if you want something that tells what Arthur and Co. might have really got up to, go to Amazon's Bernard Cornwell site, and buy the Winter King series. Now, that's Arthur!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: enlightening, exciting contuination of the story
Review: Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy entranced me with their unique telling of "The forever king". "The broken sword" has taken their unique telling to new heights. I love their twist on the legend and they way they bring it into present day. I was only dissapointed that I logged in to find out if the story continued in a third book.....but I guess not yet.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This book is totally worth the time!
Review: Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy wrote a fantastic sequel to The Forever King!They are both the best books I've ever read in my life!I reccommend both of them deffinetely!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A GREAT NOVEL!!
Review: Murphy and Cochran have done themselves well with this novel. Although I liked The Forever King better, this novel also intrigued me.

First of all, let me list the few faults this novel had compared to the first one: it was a lot darker than the first novel, it had too much on the history of the characters, and it didn't even develop the evil character, Aubrey Katsuleris (Thanatos). Sure, he was developed in some way, but Cochran and Murphy could have taken out about 15 of the 70 or so historical pages involving Arthur and Taliesin, and put Katsuleris into it.

Next, the good things: it displayed Merlin's past, which is good in some ways, we got to see the knights come together again, the bad guy was a lot better in this one, and it was just so great! Worth reading, although I advise you all to read The Forever King before this one.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Better Then The First One
Review: Once Again Molly Cochran & Warren Murphy have written a great book here, much more wittier & more action then there first master piece, once the nights of the round table come back to life in our present time, thats when this book really takes off, all the misfit thengs they do & the Hell they put Hal in is priceless, once again I could not put this book down, WAY TO GO!!!!!!!!1

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: PLEASE, PLEASE,MORE, MORE
Review: One of the best of any Arthur series I have ever read. Right up there with Mary Steward's The Crystal Cave series, and, of course, The Once and Future King. Please Molly and Warren, don't keep us waiting for more!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A bit disappointing
Review: The is a sequel to The Forever King and, like most sequels, it doesn't measure up. Pass it by.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A bit disappointing
Review: The is a sequel to The Forever King and, like most sequels, it doesn't measure up. Pass it by.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Really Cool
Review: This book rocks!The desciptions and the way they depicted the Knights of the Round Table were awsome!This book was very well written, and I recomend it whole-heartedly.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Very dissappointing sequel.
Review: This book should not have been written to begin with. The Forever King (the prequel) ended appropriately, and did not need a follow-up. Somehow, the originality of the previous book has lost its luster the second time around. Many of the prolonged passages between Merlin and "the Innocent" are drawn out too long. There is too much emphasis placed on the evilness of the villan. This is mostly done through the graphic depiction of gory, sexual satanic rituals which were not necessary to the story. When I first read the summary of the book, I thought "Reading about the Knights in modern N.Y. City will be cool," however, there was very little of this. I must strongly urge anyone who read and enjoyed The Forever King to avoid The Broken Sword at all cost.


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