Review of Nimue: Freeing Merlin (Barnes & Noble Edition)

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[Following is a volunteer review of "Nimue: Freeing Merlin (Barnes & Noble Edition)" by Ayn Cates Sullivan.]

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4 out of 5 stars

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The story starts out with a young girl of 17 heading to Britain with her mother on a trip, then she all of a sudden appears to be getting these weird dreams that she can’t explain. She soon discovers through a mystical event that she was one of the Lady of the Lake in a previous life.
I wasn’t sure if I was going to like this story, but I soon fell deep into the storyline with their Celtic mythology influence within the characters. The story reminds me of a movie I watched about Merlin, when I was a child. Which led me into the world of Merlin and the mystical magic. If only I could jump into that time to be among the trees as King Arthur rules the land.
Seeing the author pull from years of research into Celtic mythology and history, that gives us a profoundly rooted in the characteristics of the characterizations of the ancient world. Making the world open up as I felt it around me, having it become more real to me as I read. If I close my eyes, I can almost feel and sense the magic that surrounds me as I breathed in the nature within.
When I read a story, and the grammar or sentence structure that doesn’t make sense, it throws it off for me. As I read and listen to this heavily inspired story, I did not see any big grammar errors along the way. The storyline flowed throughout the book, not skipping a beat. The editing was good, with its smoothly seamless sequence in the sentences.
I give 4 out 5 for this take on a modern-day version of the story about Merlin.
Perhaps the only dislike I might have are the descriptions detail in the chapters should be longer. By pulling you further into the story with the increasing intensity of the Celtic mythology, you engage the reader even more deeply than you have ever before.

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Nimue: Freeing Merlin (Barnes & Noble Edition)
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