The Pendragon Protocol

The concept is pretty cool but the execution is lacking. The plethora of mentions regarding Arthurian characters and their devices will likely make good sense - and appeal - to Arthurian scholars. For a general reader such as myself, it did little to drive the plot forward. And yes, I have read The Once and Future King, and I have watched the Excalibur movie. Still... All in all, this was a rather muddled storyline that left me ready to skip the sequels.

I also thought it an odd choice to have a seemingly omniscient narrator enter the book as a character. How did this character witness so much of the goings-on when they were clearly not present for much of it? If the viewpoint is omniscient, the storyteller is generally not part of the plot. When they are, then a first-person or tight third-person narration would seem appropriate. This just struck me as a strange way to tell a tale and it actually pulled me out of the narrative when it happened. That is never a good thing.