I’ve already mentioned the associated downside of this, that he lets his tendency to floridness get away with him, but the upside is lavish descriptions, witty dialogue, and outlandish but utterly logical scenarios. – Wright’s command of language is, of course, worth full marks.
In Swan Knight’s Sword, Gil (spoiler!) gets his father’s sword back, returns to the court of the elves, declares himself openly as the Swan Knight’s son, restores his mother’s honor, gains the respect of knights and kings, everything goes just fine and all wrongs are righted and his mom meets his girlfriend and is okay with it (whew!)…ready to live happily ever after and have more adventures when the time comes. This being part two of a trilogy, it ends on a down note as Gil loses his father’s sword–one of the Thirteen Treasures of Lyonesse–and has to be rescued by his mermaid girlfriend. On the other hand, he does end up in jail….įeast of the Elfs follows Gil as he is recruited into The Last Crusade by the man in the dark room from Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday, swears allegiance to King Arthur, attends the titular Feast, meets The Green Knight–yes, the same one as in the Arthurian saga, what a coincidence–and finagles actual weapons training out of the elf king’s champion. The fact that his mother is Ygraine of the Riddles, a Swan May, his dog talks and is an elf spy, and that there is a magic door in their house that follows them across country and opens to a moonlit room with his father’s armor, makes this a little easier for him than it would be for a strictly normal modern-day boy.
Plot: Swan Knight’s Son is about a modern-day boy’s journey to becoming a knight. Chesterton…but we’ll get into that in a minute. Some of work is downright Vancian: mood, setting, and descriptions are clear, vivid, picturesque. Nevertheless, when he gets in gear and writes, he writes well, and I don’t think there is a single other author today who uses language as well as he does. I can’t help shake the feeling that JCW’s writing career would do way better if he met an editor who could bloody well make him stop monologuing. Very Catholic, somewhat long-winded, but quite good. (Review of Dark Avenger’s Sidekick to follow) The trilogy is the first part of a 12-book series, Moth & Cobweb, of which 6 books have been published. The three books are: Swan Knight’s Son, Feast of the Elfs, and Swan Knight’s Sword.
The Green Knight’s Squire is a YA Urban-slash-High-slash-Christian Fantasy trilogy by John C.
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