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A classic tale of knights, damsels and eh... knights and damsels :P . I was going to compare this to a soap until i realised it is, but a very particular kind of soap opera, namely WWE :). You see god decides all combats in this universe so the good guy is always guaranteed to win, only magic or traps capable of overruling god. At least on the page, between the pages good knights get beaten all the time, constantly having to be rescued from dungeons or avenged but if it happens on the page you always know who the winner is, apparently god only works with an audience :P .
Also the combats themselves arn't all that well told, i miss the rhyming. The poetic epics have surprisingly better action sequences, [b:Song of Roland|103390|The Song of Roland|Unknown|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1325254997s/103390.jpg|2906638], [b:Idylls of the King|393636|Idylls of the King|Alfred Tennyson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1380979896s/393636.jpg|937372], [b:The Faerie Queene|765427|The Faerie Queene|Edmund Spenser|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328308492s/765427.jpg|19904] and [b:Orlando Furioso|38154|Orlando Furioso|Ludovico Ariosto|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1385193032s/38154.jpg|1161788] i would all rate higher than this both in action and story. However its still entertaining and with enough variety to keep me interested.

There arn't any kick ass females like in some of the other works i've mentioned but there are a couple i liked, a good female sorceror which makes a change and my favourite the 'Damsel of Denmark' who's almost like an intelligence officer, constantly moving about delivering messages, sorting out problems and gathering intel.

The main characters Amadis and his lady seem a lot like the film version of Aragorn and Arwen. Except Aragorn doesn't burst into tears as much as Amadis ;) (Note, i say film version its not quite the same in the book with Aragorn mostly based on [b:Sigurd the Volsung|593109|The Saga of the Volsungs|Anonymous|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1425248275s/593109.jpg|180373], aka Siegfried from Wagner's ring cycle).
I preferred his brother Galour who is sneaky when he needs to be and is definitely not a one woman guy unlike weepy Amadis. There are a lot of characters and i couldn't always remember who was related to whom, like other soaps it gets very complicated. Amadis for example has a brother, a foster brother, a half-brother and a female cousin he sometimes calls his sister.

Finally the entire 4th volume, is one long battle and an almost as long ending, its very 'Return of the King' film version, just keeps going :lol .
Still, i really expected to deduct a star from this for length versus entertainment but it actually managed to hold my interest better than expected. Not as good as the poetic epics but decent as long as you don't mind WWE style fight rules :) .

There's a fairly good Librivox version, it uses multiple readers and while most are fine to good occasionally a difficult to parse accent will turn up, but i still found it useful to supplement my reading. ( )

When a book gets me doubting whether I should read on or not, I give it 100 pages to prove itself.
In this case, I was happy to close it after 100 pages and find me a new one.
Style of writing, subject, just not my cup of tea, even though this edition started of nicely with some nice drawings.

Las ilustraciones me parecen buenas, pero intenta contar tantísimas cosas en pocas páginas que da la sensación de ir a trompicones. A veces cuesta seguir el hilo de los acontecimientos... ( )