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    King of the Middle March
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    King of the Middle March
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    King of the Middle March

    Written by Kevin Crossley-Holland

    Narrated by Michael Maloney

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    About this audiobook

    Thousands of knights and foot soldiers are mustering in Venice for the launch of the fourth Crusade. Among them in young Arthur de Caldicot, soon to dubbed a knight. He is thrilled to be part of this huge gathering; but all too soon the crusade falls into disarray.

    War, romance, murder, family quarrels, power politics, the conflict between Christianity and Islam: all these are elements in an action-packed story that gives us a startlingly vivid picture of medieval life, enriched by earthy comedy and the magic of the Arthurian legends.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 14, 2004
    ISBN9780807205433
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    King of the Middle March
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    Kevin Crossley-Holland

    Kevin Crossley-Holland is a Carnegie Medal-winning author and a well-known poet. He is the author of the Arthur trilogy, including The Seeing Stone, which won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, as well as Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor, and Loki. He currently resides on the north Norfolk coast in England.

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    • 2/5
      Meh. I feel very tricked by the lack of real connection between Manor Arthur and King Arthur. As I said of the first two books, the detail and research is good, and the voice of the narrator works well.

      But it just feels so slight and all the more so for the truth about the connection between the two Arthurs. It's braver that way, in a way, I know: the story where someone starts to act out the life of a historical/mythological character in their own life and turns out to be a descendant/reincarnation of them has been done. But still. Gah.
    • 4/5
      A really strong tale set during the beginning of the Fourth Crusade. It is strange to find so many knight who, like Lord Stephen, can barely see or who, like Sir William, are failing in all their faculties. I guess the young knights are supposed to do the athletic portion of the fighting.The terrible things he has observed and been unable, mostly, to prevent and even the very real fighting he has had to do himself, mostly against his fellow crusaders has changed the protagonist greatly. The previous books were not very easy going, but this book, since it is set in the middle of a war is by far the most difficult and contains the most terrible and barbaric events.The protagonist's metaphor of himself as the apple containing the knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden is really striking.Michael Maloney's reading is excellent.
    • 3/5
      The third in a trilogy telling of the life of a 12th Century boy who can "see" something of the life and heroism of King Arthur. The language tends to be a bit simplistic, even for a young person but the story is interesting and does a very nice job of packing information about the period and some moral lessons in with enough adventure to keep a child engaged.
    • 3/5
      With this final book, I would definitely say this is a YA book as opposed to a children's book such as the first two. King of the Middle March is much darker than the other's in this series. The majority of the book takes place as the middle ages Arthur is journeying to the crusades and Jerusalem, where he sees much violence and rape. There is one scene in particular that was very disturbing. This book is also much more historical fiction than fantasy and I was a little disappointed that it took so long into the book before we were shown a vision of King Arthur in the Seeing-stone. What made this book less enjoyable than the others was that since it was set mostly away from the Middle-March most of the familiar characters were not in the book this time. But overall, the story was enjoyable and a satisfying ending to the trilogy.