Would it be yet another fantasy romp masquerading as historical fiction? Could Marshall fashion a character both historical and credible? Was I going to regret agreeing to read and review what would probably make me cringe the whole way through? So I was intrigued by Marshall’s claim, but when I received my advance copy I must admit I hesitated to open it.
After all, as my seven year old daughter often points out to her knightly younger brother: dragons aren’t real. Even though saints like St John the Baptist and St Paul preceded him, St George has been lost in the mists of time and become a legend whom we don’t really take all that seriously.
The problem is, whether historians like it or not, we don’t think of St George as a historical figure like St Augustine. His novel Sword and the Serpent claims to be a “historical retelling” of the St George legend. Saint George and the Dragon is a fairy tale, but Taylor Marshall begs to differ.
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