I’ve only read the first one, and I thought it hovered on the line between allegory and story too much. It is marketed as fiction, and I think it pretty much fails miserably there, but it had some interesting points as an allegory. That’s not to say I disliked it, though.

I would like to read the rest sometime, but our library doesn’t have them, they would be hard to get on ILL, and I’m not going to spend money on them unless I get them used. So, I’ll read them eventually.

I read these books when they were self-published, a couple of years before Multnomah picked them up. I thought they were really good. Has anyone read Chuck Black’s latest Sir Kendrick and the Castle of Bel Lione?

Nope, I noticed them in the bookstore though, and thought they looked interesting.

I read the first four Kingdom books and thought them a tad amateur, as though the author was flexing his writing muscles, but in the fifth book he just exploded and made me love it.

*laughs* You’re welcome.

I have decided to reread a bunch of my favourite books this summer; I believe the fifth Kingdom book should be one of those glorious rereads.

I’m reading Sir Bentley by him right now (The sequel to Sir Kendrick).

If they’re anything like the fifth book in the Kingdom Series, I’d read ‘em.