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The Sons of Constance: The Swithen Book 2 (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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The first king is a tyrant.
The second king hasn’t long to live.
The third king is out of his depth.
…And Merlin rules them all.

The second installment of the series faithful to the real Arthurian legend picks up where the last left off, taking us to the reign of King Arthur’s future father in a tale packed with magic, dragons, battles and intrigue.

King Vortigern lives in terror, fearing the return of the sons of Constance, who fled the country as boys when he had their brother killed. In his quest to build a tower to protect himself, he enlists the young wizard Merlin, who tells the king he must first dig up two sleeping dragons—one of which is the red dragon that is still the symbol of Wales. After the dragons clash in an unprecedented battle, the king can build his tower, but is a tower enough to protect a tyrant?

When the sons of Constance return, older brother Pendragon assumes the throne while his brother, Uther, leads the battles. With the strength of Merlin’s foresight, they quickly secure the country, but none of them are sure whether the wizard is ensuring their success—or whether they are simply pawns in his plan to bend the country to his will.

"If you weren’t fascinated by how Telek depicted Merlin in the first novel, I guarantee you will be here... Merlin is the star of the novel, although the depiction of the three kings who precede Arthur are Telek’s triumph... Telek has created the most real and sympathetic version of Vortigern to date."
—Tyler Tichelaar, Author of "Children of Arthur"

Along the way, a conspirator in the court learns the danger of deceiving Merlin, for which the consequences are devastating—and deadly. Rival seers who try to have Merlin killed discover his foresight far exceeds theirs. The Round Table is constructed and the first Knights of the Round Table are selected. It all culminates in a massive battle—presaged by a dragon of fire in the sky—that will decide the fate of the fledgling country. And all the while, Merlin is setting the pieces in place that will result in the conception of King Arthur.
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Matthew Wallhead
5,0 su 5 stelle Classic tales told without pretentious language or unnecessary revisionism.
Recensito in Germania il 16 aprile 2024
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5,0 su 5 stelle Classic tales told without pretentious language or unnecessary revisionism.
Recensito in Germania il 16 aprile 2024
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Judy K. Jolliffe
5,0 su 5 stelle Book Creates a fascinating world of nature, danger, beauty & magic.
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 16 settembre 2018
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I really liked this book. It creates an atmospheric world filled with nature, danger, beauty and magic, then lets you relax within this world as you read. The plot has a lot of twists and turns… it begins with clerics plotting Merlin’s death, then has a fight between dragons that predicts the king’s death (the scene where Merlin tells the king that he is going to die and nothing can save him is the pure Merlin/Arthurian drama we love), then the plot shifts and Merlin joins a new king and his brother, who then become the main characters. This king does something that makes Merlin very mad (in the midst of a very wicked and delightful little subplot) and he says something that throws that king and his brother into turmoil. Then there’s a big, spectacular battle at the end, and Merlin creates the round table.

Throughout, the emphasis is on what would it be like for a real person to interact with Merlin, a supernatural being who is like nothing they’ve ever dealt with before. We also get a lot of the Merlin action we like; him using his knowledge of the future to help the kings win battles, creeping people out by seeing right through their schemes, being very friendly and warm with people he likes, and I especially loved the scene where he tells one king the important part he will play in the history of Britain… and toward the coming of Arthur (which everything here is obviously leading to). This book makes the characters seem like real people (you almost forget they’re Arthurian characters completely) and captures the sweep of history and all the momentous events leading up to Arthur.

I read the previous installment, and where this one is similar (probably because it sticks to the old legends and their very odd story structure) is that each section advances the story in a different direction, and where it ends is very far from where it started. The first part is an involving little self-contained story, then Merlin continues into part two, where he meets two kings (one of whom we know will be Arthur’s father) which is intriguing but a bit meandering, but all that gathers resonance which grows in part three and finally comes to a very emotional climax in the last section, which draws power from everything that was building up to it. The book then sets up Uther’s reign, knowing as we do that he will father Arthur in the next installment. This isn’t a sequel to the last one so much as the story that happens afterward.

Between the two books we can start to see how the author is tilting the story even as he remains faithful to the legends, and what he’s doing is creating credible—and very shaded and sometimes dark—psychologies for each of these people that bring them to life and make them relatable, while also supplying all the majesty and grand sweep we expect from King Arthur stories. That said, I can’t wait to see what he does once we get into the characters we know; Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot and all the others. For now, I’ll be looking forward to book three.
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4,0 su 5 stelle Mom Kat Reads
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 10 aprile 2018
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This is a story about Merlin and continues the tale begun in “Our Man on Earth.” It is based upon several legends written between 1150 AD and 1450 AD. Merlin is now 7 years Old. King Constance has passed away, leaving his eldest son Maine, then 17 and inexperienced, as his heir. Vortiger, a trusted advisor to the young king, gives in to his jealousy and Maine is murdered. Maine’s younger brothers, Pendragon and Uther, are taken away from the country to save their lives. With Vortiger now King, many soon regret their desire for his rule over the rightful heir.

As time passes, and both the people and the King realize their mistake, Vortiger begins building a tower to provide him with protection against the eventual return of the rightful heirs. However whenever the tower reaches a certain height, it collapses. Advisors to the king convince him that the only way it can stand is to mix the blood of a fatherless child (Merlin) with the mortar. They don’t truly know why the tower keeps collapsing, but they do know that if Merlin becomes an advisor to Vortiger they will lose what power they currently possess as well as their lives.

From here the tale continues through the rest of Vortiger’s reign and the eventual return of the sons of the former King Constance. Merlin is a great influence on those ruling the country. One thing is certain: while he never lies to those he advises, lying to him or not trusting that he is there for the good of the country is always a big mistake. Merlin may have his own plan, but it is meant to bring the country to a time of true greatness. At least it will if those in charge can trust him and not betray his trust.

This was a longer book than many that I have read lately (almost 500 pages), but I enjoyed the unique perspective it gives on Merlin and those around him. While I am familiar with a lot of the legends surrounding him, this one gave a slightly different view than what I had previously read. While there were still some typos in the book, the editing was greatly improved from the first book in this series. If you enjoy tales of Merlin, I believe you will enjoy reading this one. It may take place before Arthur & the Knights of the round table existed, but it is clearly leading up to those legends. I enjoyed reading this book and am looking forward to reading the next one in this series as well.
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RC
5,0 su 5 stelle Start with this one because it’s much more “King Arthur”
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 14 maggio 2018
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I read the previous book and while I liked it, I liked this one a lot better. I would actually recommend starting with this one, because you don’t really need to know the first to get it (it starts a whole new story), and this one is a lot more action-packed, filled with magic, and overall, it’s really fun. It’s also more of what you think of when you think “King Arthur” or “Epic Fantasy,” with Merlin advising kings, dragons, battles, magic and all that good stuff.

While the first set up Merlin’s birth and how he came to understand his mission, in this one he sets that in motion, and the scope of the story expands exponentially. These books are based on the real old legends and because of that, they don’t follow the expected story beats—which is a good thing, because you are actually surprised. The first part follows Merlin coming in to advise a tyrant king, and it’s kind of like a little self-contained novella, except that the brothers who overthrow him go on to become the main characters of the rest of the book, with Merlin giving them advice on how to take control of the country.

The thing is, they soon discover that while Merlin offers them success they could never have on their own, it comes at the cost of maintaining their own control. The book goes into the psychology of the king as he realizes that he’s not really in control at all, which makes it cool, as it really digs into what it would feel like to be in that situation. The other thing is that this Merlin is not at all the nice guy we’re used to. We know he’s a good guy, but he has a plan for the country (which obviously is building toward his creating of Arthur) and will let no one stand in his way. This book makes clear why we started the story long before Arthur is born, because you can see how it’s all heading there.

There are a lot of cool individual parts, like a knock-down dragon fight, a cool episode with a guy who tries to trick Merlin (bad idea, btw), and a huge battle, but one really cool thing… Apparently in the original legend Merlin creates Stonehenge, and he also creates the round table (which I didn’t know existed before King Arthur). It sounds a little silly to imagine that Merlin created Stonehenge, but the author threads it into the story in such a way that creates a strong, and very cool, connection between Stonehenge and the round table and the knights that will come in the future. There is stuff throughout the book that seems unrelated, but at the end it all comes together and you realize it was building toward the round table the whole time.

So I would start with this one, and it might make you want to go back and get the additional context of the first one. Now I'm definitely on board to stay with this series, because it clear that it knows where it’s going and we haven’t even gotten to the main character of the series yet!
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Tyler R. Tichelaar
5,0 su 5 stelle New Merlin Novel Delves into Psychology of Arthur’s Three Royal Predecessors
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 26 maggio 2018
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The Sons of Constance is the second book in the new Swithen series by Scott Telek. The first book Our Man on Earth, tells the story of Merlin’s conception, birth, and amazing ability to speak as a young child and defend his mother against the charge of sexual immorality when she claims he is the son of the devil. In this second novel, we see Merlin at age ten, at the time when traditionally in the legends, King Vortigern seeks to have him killed to offset the continual falling down of his tower. Telek’s purpose is to write a series of Arthurian novels that remain faithful to their originals “by retaining the plot, story, and weirdness of the original legends from nearly a thousand years ago, but filling in the character and psychology in ways that are compelling to modern readers.” So far, I believe he’s been successful in this endeavor.

If you weren’t fascinated by how Telek depicted Merlin in the first novel, I guarantee you will be here. At age ten, Merlin is wiser than any other man. His great wisdom is the result of his being the son of the devil, as explained in the first novel. The devil granted him the power to know all things from the past. However, God stepped in and redeemed him, and in the process, gave him the power also to know all things in the future, which means he has a great gift for prophecy.

The novel opens in the time of King Constance, who has three sons: Maine, Pendragon, and Uther. When Constance dies, Maine becomes king. He is welcomed as king by the people, being handsome and charming, but it soon becomes apparent that he is more a pretty boy than an able administrator of a kingdom. His primary advisor is Vortiger (Telek drops the “n” because he is following the spellings used in the Post-Vulgate version of the Arthurian legends), and soon the people realize that if they want to get something done, they need to go to Vortiger. Then people start suggesting Vortiger should be king. He responds by saying he can’t be king while Maine is alive, a remark that people interpret as his wanting them to kill Maine. Of course, they do and Vortiger becomes king, while Maine’s brothers flee to the continent to safety.

Merlin enters the story when Vortiger is trying to build his tower and it continues to fall down. His counselors tell him he must sacrifice a boy who has no father in order to appease the gods so the tower will stand. Of course, Merlin is that boy, and he knows of this plot against his life before the counselors even arrive. Anyone who is a fan of the Arthurian legend will know what happens next, and there’s really nothing to Telek’s basic plot that will surprise anyone in that regard, so I apologize for any spoiler alerts that follow.

Merlin reveals to Vortiger that the real problem is that two dragons are lying under the tower, one red and one white, who occasionally move or roll over and cause the tower to fall. Vortiger is finally convinced that Merlin might be telling the truth, so he has his men dig under the tower, and indeed, they do find the two dragons. As Merlin predicts, the dragons wake and fight and the white dragon wins. Vortiger realizes the red dragon is symbolic of who he is since he always wears red, and that his death is approaching.

Arthurian fans will know what happens next. Vortiger dies and Pendragon (or Aurelius Ambrosius as he is often called, although Telek avoids the name) becomes king. In time, Pendragon also dies and Uther becomes king. What is fascinating about the novel is not the plot—truthfully, I thought the pacing of it a bit slow at times—but the psychology of the characters as the chain of events unfolds.

For me, Vortiger may have been the most interesting character in the novel. Telek gets into his mind, showing his guilt and fear over Maine’s death. It’s clear that he did not intend for Maine to be killed, but his words that led to Maine’s death were misinterpreted, and yet, perhaps on some subconscious level he did mean them as they were spoken. In his conversations with Merlin, he comes to realize Merlin’s great knowledge and also to feel guilt over his past. The battle of the dragons he also sees as a prophecy of his death, which leads him to make a rash act that ends in his destruction. I don’t want to give away the details of Vortiger’s death, but I will say that I think Telek has created the most real and sympathetic version of Vortigern to date. Vortigern has always been a rather undeveloped figure in Arthurian legend (except in Helen Hollick’s The Pendragon Banner Trilogy), but here he comes to life as a fully-rounded individual.

Both Pendragon and Uther are also well-rounded characters. Merlin immediately befriends them and helps to establish Pendragon as king, but Pendragon has a counselor, Brantius, who is skeptical of Merlin’s powers, primarily because he doesn’t like that Pendragon listens to Merlin over him. He sets up an elaborate ruse to prove that Merlin is a liar and cannot predict the future, but of course, it backfires on him. Merlin is then angry that Pendragon does not trust him and foretells that one day Uther will be king. This prophecy sets off a chain of events that are more emotional and psychological than action-packed. Telek delves into the feelings of Pendragon in knowing he must die so Uther can have the throne and into Uther’s feelings of guilt over his brother’s approaching death and his unreadiness to be king. Both brothers also are presented as realistic and ultimately noble as a result of the prophecy.

Of course, Merlin is the star of the novel, although the depiction of the three kings who precede Arthur are, in my opinion, Telek’s triumph simply because they have been sketchy and not fully detailed in most Arthurian works to date. But Merlin remains fascinating. At age ten, we see him able to change his appearance to that of an adult. We also see him able to open doors in the air so he can pass from one place to another (a type of portal apparently). And he is already predicting that an even greater king will come after Uther and setting events in motion for Arthur’s reign, including creating the Round Table and being concerned with the sangreal. And yet, despite all Merlin’s wisdom, his mother Meylinde still proves herself wiser in teaching him the secrets of the human heart and the true will of God.

The Sons of Constance ends with Uther as king and the realization that he will be a good king, but also a short glimpse at what will come in the third book The Void Place, yet to be published, in which will occur the events that lead to Arthur’s birth. I am looking forward to the next installment in this series.
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