However, I loved it once I finally got around to understanding it. I had no idea that would be there and it did take a bit of getting used to. It’s not every day you find a young adult novel where the main character speaks with a dialect, but this is one of them. There is real honor among these thieves and so much more – making this a fight worth dying for. As Gisbourne closes in a put innocent lives at risk, Scarlet must decide how much the people of Nottingham mean to her, especially John Little, a flirtatious fellow outlaw, and Robin, whose quick smiles have the rare power to unsettle her. The terrible events in her past that led Scarlet to hide her real identity are in danger of being exposed when the thief taker Lord Gisbourne arrives in town to rid Nottingham of the Hood and his men once and for all. Scarlet’s biggest secret of all is one only Robin and his men know…that she is posing as a thief that the slip of a boy who is fast with sharp knives is really a girl. Will Scarlet is good at two things: stealing from the rich and keeping secrets – skills that are in high demand in Robin Hood’s band of thieves, who protect the people of Nottingham from the evil sheriff.
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