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Bernard Cornwell, the author of the acclaimed The Warlord Chronicles and The Saxon Stories, is known to have a clear predilection for historical fiction since virtually all of his work belongs to this genre. The Archer’s Tale, the first book in the trilogy called Grail Quest is one more novel written in a similar style, with a plot that starts at the beginning of the Hundred Years War. However, more concerned with describing the great battles than with telling a proper story, Cornwell develops a narrative so shallow and uninteresting that the main plot gets even ignored by its own characters.
Thomas, the protagonist, is the son of a priest in the village of Hookton in England. [...]