Saint Camber

4.5 stars. This book sets the stage for book 3. This is the calm before the storm. Cinhil secures his throne. Bad choices are made for seemingly good reasons by well intentioned characters.......more

So when last we left our heroes, Cinhil Donal Ifor Haldane had (reluctantly) been plucked from his monastic life and assumed the kingship (by chucking his predecessor Imre's dead body off of a balcony into the royal courtyard). Saint Camber picks up six months later. Cinhil is still uneasily settling......more

So it's an interest premise. And it's competently executed. And it's clearly written by someone steeped in Catholicism but not evangelical about it so it feels like you are learning about that perspective without being lectured plus there's magic wielders trying to put a lost heir to the throne in o......more

2.5 stars Metaphorosis reviews Having deposed a Deryni tyrant, Camber and his family struggle to convince Cinhil, reluctant human king, to accept his new role and stop pining for his calm, monastic life. One of the things I'd forgotten until this re-read of the serious is just how morally flexible Cam......more

I'm rounding up to three stars. I regret that I bought the third book in the trilogy along with this second one because I don't really want to continue with it. This wasn't horrible, but it also wasn't at all what I wanted nor what it could have been. I expected this to go into the building of Cinhi......more