Kat is the Department Head for Circulation Services, the library's largest department. Circulation Services staff manage patron accounts and move books (and other library materials) through the whole process, from cataloging to checkout and everything in between. Kat recommends Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee.
Summary
Being reborn as an immortal defender of the realm gets awfully tiring over the years, or at least that's what Sir Kay is thinking as he claws his way up from beneath the earth (yet again).
After a thousand years, he thought he was used to dealing with a crisis, but now he finds himself in a strange new world where oceans have risen, armies have been privatized, and half of Britain has been sold to other countries. He can handle a dragon running amok, but as for the rest—he's not so sure.
Mariam has spent her life fighting what’s wrong with her country, but she’s just one ordinary person up against a hopelessly broken system. When she meets Kay, the two begin to travel through this strange land swarming with gangs, mercenaries and talking squirrels and discover that a magical plot of apocalyptic proportions is underway. But Kay’s too busy hunting dragons—and exchanging blows with his old enemy Lancelot—to figure out what to do about it.
In perilous times like these, the realm doesn't just need a knight. It needs a true leader.
She recommends it because...
Kat enjoyed this "entertaining King Arthur retelling with a future/environmental dystopia spin" because it had "a very hope-punk kind of ending."
Who might enjoy it?
It's "a little on the nose," says Kat, but "if current politics are not everything you want, and you like reality-tinged sci-fi as a personal motivator, this is a good one."
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