Title: Scarlet
Author: A.C.
Gaughen
Publisher: Walker
& Company (Bloomsbury)
Length: 292 pages
Rating: 5/5
Will Scarlet is Robin Hood’s greatest thief, a necessary
asset as they struggle to protect the people of Nottingham from the evil
sheriff. When the sheriff hires the thief taker Gisbourne to hunt them down,
Scarlet’s deepest secrets are threatened to be exposed. Not only is she
secretly a girl, but she also has a past with the evil Gisbourne, and he’ll
stop at nothing to take her, and Robin Hood, down.
It took me a couple chapters to really get into this book,
but once I did, I didn’t want to put it down. Scarlet is everything you want in
a kick-butt heroine: smart, quick, good with daggers, full of secrets, and hopelessly
bad at romance. She gets struck by arrows, fists, and mean words, and while her
first instinct might be to run away, she always gets back up, no matter how
bruised she might be.
As someone who loves the Robin Hood story, I thought this
was a very clever retelling. While the gist of the legend is the same, it made
me think of all of the characters in new and unexpected ways.
While it was written to be a stand-alone book, I was excited
to hear that there will be a sequel coming in 2014. I can’t wait!
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