Jacquelyn Holmes

From the back of the book: "The boy is Pelleas, bastard son of Uther the Pendragon. The smith is Myrddin, known as a sorcerer wise in countless arts. Through Pelleas' eyes unfolds the harsh, violent, surprising world of fifth-century Britain: a land torn by strife, struggling toward glory, and changed forever when a royal baby- Arthur- is smuggled to a remote island. There Arthur will be raised by Myrddin, Pelleas and the enchanting child Nithe... until it is time for him to pull the sword...

There are two types of readers that I've met in recent years. The first are readers who were born readers. They carried a book between classes in school. They own a tower of paperbacks, and have boxes of them stuffed into corners. These readers can't remember a time they haven't had a novel near at hand. Just ask. They probably have a book nearby right now. The second type of reader is the newer reader. Maybe they got into it with Fourth Wing or A Court of Thorns and Roses. These folks are...

I want to start this review by saying that Orson Scott Card is definitely not an unknown, or even lesser known, author. If you don't know who Orson Scott Card is, stop now and go find a copy of Ender's Game. Run, don't walk. I read Ender's Game years ago, and there are still only a handful of books that can top it, in my mind. It changed my view of childhood intelligence, and what a child could be capable of. Possibly as impactful as the book itself was the foreword I read in my edition...