Sword at Sunset vs The Wicked Day: Which Should You Read?

Sword at Sunset Rosemary Sutcliff · 1963 ★★★★☆ 3.9 480 pages · ≈ 8 h 53 m · Moderate

This brilliant Arthurian epic cuts through the mists of pagan, early Christian, and medieval splendors that have gathered about the subject and tells the authentic story of the man who may well have been the real King…

The Wicked Day Mary Stewart · 1983 ★★★★☆ 3.9 376 pages · ≈ 6 h 58 m · Moderate

Far from being the scourge of Arthur, his bastard son Mordred actually strives to resist Merlin's prophecy of doom. But he is thwarted by the schemes of his sorceress mother, Queen Morgause, who has brought him up to be…