Lilibet Bombshell's Reviews > Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix
Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix (Remixed Classics)
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Lilibet Bombshell's review
bookshelves: advanced-reader-copies, fairy-tale-retellings, standalone-fantasy-novels, historical-fiction, lgbtqia-friendly-reads, book-series, ya-fantasy, young-adult-fiction
Mar 22, 2022
bookshelves: advanced-reader-copies, fairy-tale-retellings, standalone-fantasy-novels, historical-fiction, lgbtqia-friendly-reads, book-series, ya-fantasy, young-adult-fiction
What a clever book! I went into this with some trepidation, considering how much I’ve disliked a lot of the remixes and retellings that have been published in the last few years. In all honesty, the only reason I made an exception to read this one is because of how much I’ve always been a fan of everything Robin Hood. From Erroll Flynn to a cartoon fox to Kevin Costner in a really bad accent, I’ve always unabashedly loved the story of Robin Hood.
So this book was a lot better than I expected, even though it wasn’t perfect.
It’s such a witty book, with chapter titles that made me laugh and a good sense of humor. The book didn’t take itself too seriously, which is always a plus when it comes to a topic as heavy as the Crusades. The characters were absolutely some of the coolest when it comes to gender-bending such a classic story.
It’s a very, very well-researched book too! It’s obvious the author did their due diligence when it came to researching the Crusades and the Middle East of close to a millennium ago. I was impressed by the accurate geographical knowledge employed and how devoted to getting the religious components of the war as correct as possible on both sides. It was a holy war, after all, and we all know how messy things can get when religion gets involved.
Now, I do have a pretty hefty complaint with the narrator, our “Robin Hood”, breaking the literary fourth wall to talk to us readers directly. The book may be in first-person POV, but when the narrator all of a sudden takes to talking to us readers in little asides it jars you a bit out of the story.
All in all, it was a difficult job well done.
Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group for early access to this title in exchange for a fair and honest review.
So this book was a lot better than I expected, even though it wasn’t perfect.
It’s such a witty book, with chapter titles that made me laugh and a good sense of humor. The book didn’t take itself too seriously, which is always a plus when it comes to a topic as heavy as the Crusades. The characters were absolutely some of the coolest when it comes to gender-bending such a classic story.
It’s a very, very well-researched book too! It’s obvious the author did their due diligence when it came to researching the Crusades and the Middle East of close to a millennium ago. I was impressed by the accurate geographical knowledge employed and how devoted to getting the religious components of the war as correct as possible on both sides. It was a holy war, after all, and we all know how messy things can get when religion gets involved.
Now, I do have a pretty hefty complaint with the narrator, our “Robin Hood”, breaking the literary fourth wall to talk to us readers directly. The book may be in first-person POV, but when the narrator all of a sudden takes to talking to us readers in little asides it jars you a bit out of the story.
All in all, it was a difficult job well done.
Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group for early access to this title in exchange for a fair and honest review.
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Reading Progress
March 21, 2022
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Started Reading
March 21, 2022
– Shelved
March 22, 2022
– Shelved as:
advanced-reader-copies
March 22, 2022
– Shelved as:
fairy-tale-retellings
March 22, 2022
– Shelved as:
standalone-fantasy-novels
March 22, 2022
– Shelved as:
historical-fiction
March 22, 2022
– Shelved as:
lgbtqia-friendly-reads
March 22, 2022
– Shelved as:
book-series
March 22, 2022
– Shelved as:
ya-fantasy
March 22, 2022
– Shelved as:
young-adult-fiction
March 22, 2022
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Finished Reading