Saint Camber – Katherine Kurtz
- Posted by Shaun on April 10th, 2006 filed in Books
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As predicted, I finished “Saint Camber” in short order. I was nearly at the end of it for a couple weeks. Still, not a bad book, but not the fantasy epics that I’ve become accustomed to lately. Definitely still a very religious theme. All the main characters are also important religious figures in their world.
Kurtz seems to have taken a different approach to “magic” than other authors. It almost seems religious in nature. The characters get into prayer and sometimes start quoting some Latin text. Different from the special powers described by other fantasy authors.
I’m not sure where she is going with this storyline. The main character helped bring an exiled royal family back into power because the guy currently in power was abusing his position and really making a mess of things. In “Saint Camber” the character ends up taking over the persona and life of somebody else to be closer to the king. He inadvertently becomes a Saint, because he is supposed to be dead, but has appeared to a few others.
Now, she is taking the storyline to a place where the gifted and non-gifted are separating. The non-gifted resent that the gift have powers and that they are evil because of them. I’m slowly making my way through “Camber the Heretic“. We’ll just have to see how she ends this trilogy.