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I am increasingly disappointed with the whole series by Jack Whyte. This, the third book of his Arthurian saga, finds Camulod and Britain deserted by Rome and its legions, and fighting off Saxons, Picts, Scots and themselves. Whyte clearly knows his military history, and I completely admit I enjoy his details on Roman military strategy and weapons. On the other hand his knowledge of social history is lacking. Camulod comes off as an armed camp with no discussion of how the majority of women and men spent their time in the 5 th century. Cloth making, alone, took 56 - 60% of every man, woman and child's time before industrial times - and here we are before spinning wheels as well. Finally, the women in all of Whyte's books are horrible, cardboard characters. As far as I can see, women exist solely for men's sexual needs in these books - and the sex as described isn't even hot. A sad weakness in partly interesting reads.
