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Robbie Forester And The Outlaws Of Sherwood Street (2012)

by Peter Abrahams(Favorite Author)

3.2 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0399255028 (ISBN13: 9780399255021)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Philomel

series

Outlaws of Sherwood Street

review 1: I don't usually like abandoning books. I figure if I pay for them, I should probably read them.Luckily I only paid $2.99 for this one at the discount store.Right away, the author uses too many em dashes. It's distracting. He used a semicolon wrong, and that bothers me.My biggest problem is with the main character, Robbie; she's always asking her parents what they do for a living (her dad's a writer, her mom's an associate at a law firm), but then she tunes them out because she "doesn't understand what they're talking about". I rolled my eyes so much in the first 50 pages that I thought they'd fall out.Overall, this book might be good for younger audiences, but I'm just not liking the style. I'll probably give it to my younger brother.
review 2: I ended up being... more disappointed by this one. The action seemed drawn out to me--lost in description much of the time. Plus, I'm not sure that I like that the overall moral of this story that it's okay to lie and steal as long as you give the money to the poor. The magic bracelet started as a decent premise, but I just didn't get into the characters--and the portrayal of Robbie's parents is dreadful. I'm assuming that this is just setting up a sequel because there was no sense of closure. less

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