BR; Goddess Of Legend - PC Cast

Isabel, a world-weary photojournalist, is grounded back home in Oklahoma, when her car plummets off a bridge into a lake. Struggling on the edge between life and death, she's miraculously saved by the Water Goddess, but with one tiny caveat: Isabel must travel to another time to seduce the legendary Lancelot du Lac away from Queen Guinevere. Simple. After all, the handsome knight is a dream for any woman in any century. Unfortunately Isabel is the one who's seduced - by the soulful eyes of the wise and soft-spoken King Arthur. But for Isabel, a deal is a deal. Now, the King watches as fate takes from him the mysterious beauty he has come to worship, knowing all too well that any interference on his part could destroy the kingdom he loves.
This is the first book I've read of PC Casts' Summoning Series', and I must say it was a pleasant surprise. 99% of the book is set in Camelot, where our leading lady is sent back in time, to save Arthur and Merlin. Although she's supposed to be around the age of forty, Isabel was a very relatable character, this could be due to the easy-going nature with which the book was written. Despite the use of historical, old-age language, it still felt like reading any other modern day fiction...because our main characters thought patterns, were told in our language as she was from our present day. However the language barrier between Isabel and the rest of Camelot caused some rather funny moments (GOOSE POLE!)
This book was very wordy, almost entirley dialogue. Very little action occured, and that which did was very far apart - although to Casts' credit the book never got boring, and she kept us engrossed using emotion and relationshiops.
King Arthurs physical description waws very appealing... but, and this may have been Casts' intention, he came across as way too perfect, practically flawless. This could have been the authors way of saying that as a modern day woman you have to travel back in time to find a decent man. Arthur did have some bad points, but these were mainly related to his time period. His way of thinking was different to Isabels which caused a few arguments.
As a contrast to Isables mature character, we were given Gwyn, who came across as a fickle teenager. She really annoyed me, playing the incompitent fool. But it made me appreciate Isabels demeanor more.
Now...Usually I would complain that the heroine accepted time travel and magic, goddesses and quests, way too quickly and that that is really unrealistic. But in yet another clever move, Cast put her character on the other side of death, making anything seem possible to our heroine, and she became more acceptant.

I would give this book a 7/10. It was really interesting, a great example of using historical context, and generally a book on female empowerment, which usually earns a few more points ;)