The Guinevere Deception

I've been waiting so long for an Arthurian YA book, and this is so bland I want to cry. Guinevere is bland. Arthur is bland. The side characters are mostly bland. The pacing is awful. The majority of the book is so painfully slow, and not only we are kept in the dark until much later, but Guinevere also does nothing but talk to people and being afraid of water. It is so mind-numbing that when the story finally picks up, I'm simply unable to bring myself to care. You can skim through 70% of the book and not miss much.