CAMELOT FOREVER – Lancelot’s Redemption
By Robert W. Hickey & Bill Nichols
Published at Amazon
333 Pgs
Morgan LeFay is using her magic immortality to hunt down the descendants of King Arthur’s fabled knights in modern-day England. Her chief killer in charge of her devil hounds is none other than her son, Mordred. Among this evil duo’s targets is a young woman named Elizabeth recently become a mother. She is also the great-great-granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes. Somehow Holmes, over the years, became aware of the LeFay’s murderous quest and to thwart her began amassing magic arcane artifacts to protect his beloved Elizabeth.
All of that is the basic plot and is dumped on the reader without much preamble. Rather, the authors throw us off into the pool’s deep end without much warning. As we read through the book, so much is related in flashbacks. We couldn’t help but think this was not the first in the saga as indicated but the second. Then to add more confusion to the tale, at the book’s end, the authors offer up what they call a “prequel story” which actually details events we’d already been informed of in the character’s flashbacks. We really wish before publishing, Misters Hickey and Nichols had given thought to simply offering the “prequel” as the first chapter in the books. It would have certainly made their narrative so much easier to follow and thus enjoy.
There is a good story somewhere in this book and with more cohesive plotting, would have been doubly exciting. Sadly the execution left a lot to be desired.
