![]() ![]() This part of the story is told from a distance-years of the girl’s life experienced over the course of a few pages, stopping on a moment here or there that she will look back on later. We see her running through the forest as though she were a sprite, communicating not only with the animals around her, but the very earth itself. We don’t know why, only that the little girl is special. The book begins by introducing us to a young girl whose mother keeps her hidden away from the world. I’ll be honest and say I don’t remember much about Percival, but if the stories I’ve read before Spear had been anything like this, I would’ve paid more attention. ![]() And that’s all before you get to the author’s note and her meticulous list of citations. Not that it matters-because even a layperson such as myself recognizes the amount of time, devotion, and research Nicola Griffith put into writing this book. I know the basics of Arthurian legend-the sword in the stone, Merlin, the Lady of the Lake, and all that-but I have to admit that any deeper knowledge I may have once had (if I had any at all) has been lost to the annals of time. Our Spear book review dives into Nicola Griffith’s lush queer retelling of Arthurian legend’s very own Percival. ![]()
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