Paperback, 512 pages
Published Jan. 29, 1988 by Lion Hudson Plc.
It was a time of legend, when the last shadows of the mighty Roman conqueror faded from the captured Isle of Britain. While across a vast sea, bloody war shattered a peace that had flourished for two thousand years in the doomed kingdom of Atlantis.
Taliesin is the remarkable adventure of Charis, the Atlantean princess who escaped the terrible devastation of her homeland, and of the fabled seer and druid prince Taliesin, singer at the dawn of the age. It is the story of an incomparable love that joined two worlds amid the fires of chaos, and spawned the miracles of Merlin...and Arthur the king.
A remarkable beginning to the retelling of a tale familiar to so many. Passionate and poetic.
Personally I was hoping for a bit more magic. It was a tough book to get into because of the sheer number of characters and the switching back and forth between the two stories. Once you get into it though it becomes more interesting, I'm looking forward to the other books in the series but I have to say I'm not dying to read them.
