![]() (I feel there aren’t enough authors out there who bother to write notes at the end of their books. ![]() The author talks about the research she did for this book in her Author’s Note at the back, which I highly recommend reading. In her version of Robin Hood, the character of Will Scarlet is female, but she’s disguising herself as a male, and only her closest friends know the truth. Gaughen has taken a classic tale (which is based in truth) and made it feel fresh. I’m happy to report that I did indeed love Scarlet, but I also had a few issues with it, and I’m not sure if those of you who loved it more than I did will agree with me. I had heard amazing things about this book, and so I went into it with certain expectations. I, like many of my fellow bloggers, am playing catch-up and decided to finally read Scarlet in preparation for book two in the series, Lady Thief, which releases in a couple of weeks. His hair were shaggy as an animal’s and it looked like the Devil were trapped in his head. He were wrapped in violence as if it were clothes, his cloak like death, his armor like blades. ![]() ![]() “Perhaps I should introduce myself,” he called. He stopped in the center of the market square, stepping up on a small fountain. The nitty-gritty: A feisty heroine, a noble cause, and sometimes violent action, all wrapped up in beautiful writing. ![]()
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