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Hawksmaid: The Untold Story Of Robin Hood And Maid Marian (2010)

by Kathryn Lasky(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0060000716 (ISBN13: 9780060000714)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

HarperCollins

review 1: Nice little take on Robin Hood Story w/Maid Marian as the one who came up w/it all.Made me think of Sharon Kay Penman's book, "Dragoon's Lair!"Enjoyed the most what she had to say about the use and art of Falconry.Something I would like to do.Interesting about what each bird is able to do and their strengths and weaknesses.Was confused about the potato hole thing too and why kill the mother and not the father.
review 2: I loved Kathryn Lasky's GUARDIANS OF GA'HOOLE series. This book, however, is a hot sweaty nonsensical mess of a novel. It carries itself as a historical fiction novel - but by the end of it, everything falls apart and is a failure of what is supposed to be a historical fantasy AU.Maid Marian is some kind of hawk mastering master and surpasses ev... moreen her father at a very young age. She is the most smart, clever, cunning, pretty, brave, fearless person ~ever~ and everyone loves her and if you don't love her, then you're evil! Look at how nice Marian is, she remembers a leper woman's name! She is the bestest member of the Merry Men and even though she resents being left out of the stories, she's totes okay with it because she's PERF. Oh, and did I mention she can talk to the hawks? Like, legit conversations? Gag me with one of those anachronistic potatoes from the potato hole she couldn't fit in.I really wanted to like this. That didn't happen. Maid Marian is unerringly perfect and therefore boring, and everyone else is disastrously underdeveloped. The hawk mastering scenes are detailed to the point of also being boring. A lot of subplots are brushed aside to show how awesome Marian/Matty is. I'd rather watch an animated film about Robin Hood and Maid Marian as foxes than read this again. less

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