Morgan Is My Name / Le Fay / Storm Over Camelot by Sophie Keetch -- a close to perfect Arthurian trilogy
Posting my review because imo not enough people are talking about these books, and I just finished the last one and needed to talk about it! If you’re a fan of Arthurian stories and/or dark fantasy move this to the top of your TBR. What an incredible series of page turners.
Morgan is a fantastic lead, a powerful woman from the start whose relationship with Arthur grounds the entire series. She's handled with so much nuance and care; she is fallible, she's angry, she's sharp, she makes huge mistakes, but at the same time is tragically misunderstood. The magic feels ancient, earthy, dangerous -- and requiring every bit of the protagonist's fierce intellect. In this story, Merlin is the closest thing to a villain there is, simultaneously the cause of much of Morgan's early misery and the foundation of her story.
The prose is just lovely, beautiful to read but not too dense, and the twists and turns in each novel of this trilogy had me reading way up into the night.
The final novel, Storm Over Camelot, released just last week and was a beautiful way to end this narrative. I just wish there were a few more chapters to flesh out the ending. But that might just be me wishing to live in this world just a little longer.
Anyone else here a huge fan of these books?