Once & Future

Books | Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic

3.4

(294)

Amy Rose Capetta

Cori McCarthy

King Arthur as you’ve never seen her! This bold YA novel reimagines the Once and Future King as a queer teenage girl on an epic quest to save the universe. Coming to terms with your identity is always difficult. But for Ari, the 42nd reincarnation of King Arthur, it just got a whole lot more complicated. Gender-bending royalty, caustic wit and a galaxy-wide fight for peace and equality all collide in this epic adventure. With an awkward adolescent Merlin and a rusty spaceship, this is the Arthurian legend as you have never before seen it. ‘A rip-roaring, no holds-barred, gloriously queer reinvention of Arthurian legend.’ Malinda Lo, author of Last Night at the Telegraph Club ‘Utterly compelling, brilliantly witty, and delightfully queer.’ Simon James Green, author of Noah Can't Even

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Author

Amy Rose Capetta

Pages

368

Publisher

Oneworld Publications

Published Date

2019-03-26

ISBN

1786076551 9781786076557

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"Great, inclusive story with an interesting twist on the source material. "

Thain

"Sapphic Arthurian retelling "

Maram

"Fun read, and I throughly enjoyed it but the direction of the ending kinda felt like it was suddenly tacked on to forcibly lead to a sequel. It felt like it came out of nowhere, and while it fits well enough with the method of the story, it’s not what I would have expected. Nevertheless, I still plan on reading the sequel."

Honey Dragon

"Most of my dislike towards this book comes from the fact that I almost never read sci-fi, but this was pretty good other than that fact. (In fact, this is really 3 stars but I gave it 4 stars for everything other than the fact it’s a sci-fi novel.) This definitely had a similar vibe to the Lunar Chronicles, but with more representation. The queer romances are more subplot than the main story, but they were fun and well developed, especially Gwen and Ari’s (but there was also a bit more talk about the love interests physical body and making out then I would expect in a YA novel…), and the side queer rep is also good. The world was also creative and the villain (space capitalism!) was genius. Also the overall story was fun, and my dislike over it was only because I’m not a sci-fi fan. And the story was pretty humorous in some parts, especially in the beginning, but also had a bunch of emotion. I don’t think I’ll be reading the sequel because of my “I don’t read sci-fi so it impacted the book” issues, but it looks really different from this one plot-wise so that’s interesting. Again, most of the issues I had with this were for personal reading preference reasons, but I still recommend this for larger sci-fi fans and fans of retellings."