Squire's Tale

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Summary: It's SOOOOO funny!
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This book was okay, but nothing special.

Terence lives with a hermit who sees the future, but does not remember the past. One day, a knight comes to the hermitage and Terence ends up going with the knight, Gawain, to Camelot, as Gawain's squire. Upon arriving at Camelot, and after Gawain is knighted, a strange event happens and Gawain, Terence and a fellow knight, Tor are sent on an adventure to find a white hart and hound. After finding these 2 things, the knights and their squires continue questing with 3 Questing Ladies.

While this book had the potential of being very entertaing, it was nothing special. I felt as if the characters were shallow and unreal.

~Atalanta

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Summary: A Squire's Tale by Gerald Morris
Review: A Nice Read! Good for People who like Fantasy!

This is a fairly good book. Not the best, but definitely one you should read. It is especially good for people who are into fantasy and adventure. If you enjoy books about Arthurian times you will enjoy this book. Fans of the Harry Potter series or of the Lord of the Rings might enjoy this book. I would not recommend this book for people who are into more realistic books, because this book is definitely not realistic. Great for people who do like fantasy though!

The plot of the story revolves around fourteen year old Terence and the knight of the round table, Gawain. Little does Terence know that even though he grew up with a hermit, he himself is royalty. WHen Terence and Gawain arrive at King Artuer's court, they are quickly sent on a quest to find a white hart (stag). The frivolous journey includes much more than they could ever imagine including two stupid lovers, faeries, and a perilous crossing to a faery enchanter's castle. When they get back to court though, things are in disarray. King Arthur is on the verge of death. The court is about to fall apart. And it all has to do with a mysterious dark sorceress. For fans of Harry Potter or of the Lost Years of Merlin series, read this book!

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Summary: This is one heck of a great book!
Review: First thing: This book is awesome!!! Mr. Morris captured my attention like no other author has been able to do.

"The Squire's Tale" is a wonderful book based around Terence, a boy searching for his past, who comes to be Sir Gawain's squire, and soon encounters more adventure than he ever thought he would! Sharp, witty dialogue and absolutley lovable charaters (Like Tor, Polgrun, Gawain, Robin, Lori, Ganscotter, Authur, Kai, and, of course, Terence himself!) made this book one of my favorites (Bested only by it's sequal, "The Squire, His Knight and His Lady).

After Gawain, a young man seeking to be Knighted by King Authur has a(rather humorous, stewpot) fight with Sir Hautubris, he recrutes a Squire out of young Terence (With the help of the Hermit of the Gentle Wood, Trevensent.)

The two set out to Camelot, on the way meeting young Tor, who also wants to be a knight. Gawain gets his wish of being knighted,(Poor Tor doesn't, yet!) but only after Terence tells of the fight with Sir Hautubris. ("I have an ill-mannered squire." Gawain replied. "Will you punish him for telling of this deed?" Gawain hesitated, then shook his head. "No, sire. How could I punish him for telling what I wish to be known?")

After a wonderful fight scene with the five kings, who were threatening Camelot and Aurthur, Gawain, Tor (He's knighted, yay!), Kai and Terrence are all rewarded by the king.
A few months later, King Authur is married to Guinevere. During the party, a hart and hound, both almost compeletly white, wreak havoc. Soon after them, a hag on a white mule appears. A brief quarrel causes the hag to have Gawain pursue the hart and Tor follow the hound. ("King Aurthur," The woman said, "Send Sir Gawain after the hart." She looked at him through the corner of her eye. "Perhaps he will find adventure where he saw none before.")

Gawain and Terence set out Questing. In the course of three months, they encounter quarreling brothers, rude men, one beautiful, but unusually blood-thirsty girl, one quiet knight who befriends them after a quick jousting competition, Gawain's "autie" Morgan Le Fay, ("You always were a twisted wench, Morgan.") two love-sick fools, The Lady of the Lake, Ganscotter the Enchanter, Lorie, his daughter (Also the hag from the feast), and many others. (I won't say who else! Surprise, Surprise!)

All around, I'd say this is one execllent book for young readers. I'm 13, and even though I've read it many, many times, it still enchants me! HIGHLY RECOMENDED!!!

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Summary: The coolest night and stupidest squire on earth!
Review: Gerald Morris is the best King Artherian author ever!!! All his stories are amazingly funny and well written, and sutable for all ages. I started reading them three or four years ago, and expect to continue reading them for at least another four years. My favorite part of the books are the afterwards, he uses old-fashioned lauguage, combined with modorn too. For example, a quote is, "And Sir Garhais quoth, "No thanks, tournaments are boring and I always lose anyway." Buy this book! and then read all the other ones, of which it is a shame that he hasn't written more.

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Summary: A very fun read!
Review: Gerald Morris' writing does not have the depth and description of many books, but I do love the story and the characters, especially Terence. The story has a slight mystery to it: who is Terence really? It is adventurous and set in the time of King Arthur, in fact Arthur is a part of this story as is Merlin and the greatest knight of all: Sir Gawain. As the story goes, Terence becomes Gawain's squire and later Gawain becomes a knight of the round table. It very quickly becomes apparent that Terence has faery blood in him, and he makes an excellent squire for the good knight Gawain, as they both go questing and encounter several adventures. And eventually, Terence does find out who he really is. "The Squire" has its bit of humor and is a book worth reading, very fun and charming.

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Summary: Sir Gawian the Greatest Knight
Review: I was looking in the library for a book and stumbled onto this one and it's sequals. I loved them all! If you like midevil or are into fearies or magic books, than these are books for you. If you like these books, read some by Tamora Pierce, she also writes midevil books that have some magic in them.

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Summary: Sir Gawian the Greatest Knight
Review: Sir Gawian the Greatest Knight

Gerald Morris wrote the Squire's Tale. The plot of Morris' book is basically about King Arthur's nephew Gawain and his squire, Terrence, and Gawain's quest to knighthood. After Gawain becomes a knight, he is sent on another quest.

The Squire's Tale is set in the tale end of Roman Empire or in the 200-300 A.D. All over Britain is the location of the story. Terrence and Gawain travel to Camelot twice. Once they go in hopes of Gawain being knighted and then they return to Camelot later in the book. The main characters are Terrence, Sir Gawain's squire, Sir Gawain, Sir Tor, Sir Marhault and Plogrun, Sir Marhault's squire. One of the conflicts in the story centers around Gawain, who didn't want to talk about his parents. Another conflict was that Terrence was trying to decide if it was important to find out who his own parents were. A physical conflict in the book was when with king Arthur's army, to help Sir Gawain and Terrence were sent to stop the rebellion of five kings and their armies with king Arthur's army to help.

I find this book is a worthwhile read because it is very exciting and suspenseful. I would recommend it to the Arthurian lover and historical legend reader alike. I would recommend this book to teens and adults alike because the action will please teens and adults alike.

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Summary: What a wonderful book!
Review: This, is the first book of four (so far) in a spectacular series of tales of Sir Gawain and his squire, Terence. In this book Morris carefully develops each of his characters, even ones that are only in one chapter. The Dialogue is very witty and the plot has some surprising twists from the other versions I have read. Altogether it is a fantastic book which I recommend to everyone!