An entertaining look at pre-Roman history. ( )

I enjoyed this retelling of the Mabinogion tales - which I knew from having read Lady Guest's translation previously. I liked the way Walton managed to keep an archaic turn of phrase without making the book too much hard work to read. It flowed well and I liked her expansions and reimaginings of certain aspects of the stories. I did feel, however, that she was telling them with a very modern, knowing, perspective and certainly with an agenda of her own (whether this was deliberate or not). ( )

Beautifully written novels based on Welsh mythology, enlightening and mesmerizing. Walton moves effortlessly from the realm of "real time" and history into the Bright and Dark lands of the Otherworld, and back again--giving the reader a taste of a time when these were more than just obscure tales of magic, but the essential stuff of community and personal life. ( )