Bloodline vs The Arthur Trilogy, Book One: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Middle Ages, Identity, Great Britain, History, Children's fiction, Fiction
Bloodline
While traveling through early seventh-century Britain trying to stop an impending war, Essa, who bears the blood of native British tribes and of the invading Anglish, discovers that his mother is alive and he, himself,…
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The Arthur Trilogy, Book One
“TUMBER HILL! IT'S MY CLAMBER-AND-TUMBLE-and-beech-and-bramdle hill! Sometimes, when I'm standing on the top, I fill my lungs with air and I shout.”
In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many…
The verdict
- Bloodline runs the darker storyline; The Arthur Trilogy, Book One stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Bloodline | The Arthur Trilogy, Book One | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.6 (328) | — |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | — |
Reception
| Bloodline | The Arthur Trilogy, Book One | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 328 | — |
| Editions | 2 | 29 |
| Want to read | 719 | — |
| Reading it now | 10 | — |
| Written reviews | 64 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 4541 | — |
| Pages | — | 338 |