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Okay, it’s 5 am and I am VIBRATING with excitement. I was not expecting to love this as much as I did. I randomly started the first chapter at midnight and never stopped reading. Recommended for fans of Galavant and A Knight’s Tale. Think sly, anachronistic, compulsively readable, and medieval-set YA fantasy with satirical elements. Not recommended for Arthurian purists, lol. Let's just say it diverges from the source material quite a bit.

We need more fun, frothy, and easy-to-read fantasy. I love SFF, YA and adult. But complex worldbuilding gives me a headache when I'm not in the mood to process so much information.


know “girl disguises herself as a man” is problematic for valid reasons, but this book avoids many of the common pitfalls of the trope execution. Emry is bi and lots of secondary characters are queer (super excited to see the Lancelot/Percival ship become official in the next book). Arthur does lust after Emry when he thinks Emry is a boy, but he's fine with that possibility. Arthur's not like “eww, what’s wrong with me that I’m lusting after men?” (he’s into the idea, and is hurt when he mistakenly believes that his feelings are unreciprocated).