Summary from GoodReads:

He was born to greatness, the son of a druid bard and a princess of lost Atlantis. A trained warrior, blessed with the gifts of prophecy and song, he grew to manhood in a land ravaged by the brutal greed of petty chieftains and barbarian invaders.

Merlin: Respected, feared and hated by many, he was to have a higher destiny. for It was he who prepared the way for the momentous event that would unite the Island of the Mighty—the coming of Arthur Pendragon, Lord of the Kingdom of Summer.

My Review:

I struggled with Merlin.  While I loved Taliesin there were aspects of that book as well that I struggled with, mostly the names and places.  I took my time reading it and then I took my time reading Merlin and with Merlin, I just ended up feeling completely out of my depths.

I felt while I was reading this story, that I should have come into it knowing a little more about the history.  As it was, I was surrounded by names and places that I couldn’t pronounce and a story that I just couldn’t follow, no matter how many times I flipped back and forth trying to remember and put things together.  I’m really unhappy about this too, because I desperately wanted to like this book as much as I liked the first.

I will probably give it another try another time.  In the meantime, I don’t think I’ll be moving on to the next book in the series anytime soon.