T. H. White: The Queen of Air and Darkness (1939)
English language
Published 1939
The Queen of Air and Darkness is a fantasy novel by English writer T. H. White. It is the second book in his series The Once and Future King. It continues the story of the newly crowned King Arthur, his tutelage by the wise Merlyn, his war against King Lot, and also introduces the Orkney clan, a group of characters who would cause the eventual downfall of the king. The original second book in the series was The Witch in the Wood, published in 1939. It has the same general outline as the replacement work, but is substantially longer and most of the text is different.
Second book of The Once and Future King. It almost made me give up on the whole endeavor, glad I didn't since the third book is a home run. It's just tedious and not funny. The pacing is strange, the characterizations uncompelling, and the tone attempts to be varied but comes across as incoherent.
