I read this book because I had heard Nancy McKenzie's Queen of Camelot book was really good, but my library didn't have that one. The Grail Prince was a very well-thought out story about the son of Lancelot, Galahad. He is raised by a weird mother and an absent father. Needless to say, he has some issues.

McKenzie keeps switching to different periods of Galahad's life, not writing them in order. When the book first starts he is 15 and then we learn about things that happened when he was 5 and so on. It is a little tricky to keep up with, but I kind of liked how it flowed. He meets his true love, Dane, near the beginning, and you can tell they will probably end up together. She does not reappear for a LONG time though, so that was a little sad. I love to have a little romance :)

Overall, I think you can really see Galahad's character grow and change and learn many lessons throughout the book. He is a dark man for a while and then he finally learns mercy and love and forgiveness. I think the book had a wonderful message and a happy ending. I was very pleased with it. It is a tad long, but well worth the time spent reading.

I give it 4 out of 5 stars.

I enjoyed this book a lot more than Queen of Camelot, I think because Galahad is a much more interesting character than Guinevere. It takes a lot of guts to write a book with a main character who starts out as such a completely self-absorbed, self-righteous, misogynistic little prick (although at least he doesn't break down crying every other paragraph). I was also able to follow along well enough, even though I didn't remember all of the details/happenings from the first book. So, overall, not a great book, but a solid enough piece of imaginative "historical" fiction. ( )

Really loved the first in this series, Queen of Camelot. This one let me down at first because I was hoping for more of an insight into Lancelot and Guienevere, but I made it to the end and was happy to have done so. Had a hard time connecting with the main character, however. ( )