The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady, by Gerald Morris, is told in 3rd person and focuses on Terence, a squire that serves Sir Gawain, and tells the tales of their many adventures. So far the tale of the Green Knight has been the focus of this book. This book is about King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. I have been a little prejudice against books about Merlin and King Arthur because I'd always assumed they were historical fiction, which they might be I have no idea and I normally don't like historical fiction. Speaking of which, that is one of my personal questions How do King Arthur, Merlin and the Round table knights change in books and why? So far Merlin was his advisor and disappeared near the end of the book.
This book is interesting because it tells how knights, courts, and things were like back then. Like there were some show knights or tournament knights that didn't really fight besides tournaments and quests. Then there were knights that fought in wars, did quests, and helped people. It also told how boring peace could be when the knights were at the castle and had nothing to do or weren't on a quest. I really like how it uses some language from that time period but is careful not to overwhelm the reader. Another thing I like is in one part of the book Terence sees a bow and arrows for the first time and doesn't know what they are and calls them things like "a long bent stick and several shorter sticks". I wouldn't have thought of that.
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