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abigailbat's review against another edition
3.0
Lots of adventure and clever incorporation of the Robin Hood story.
jengennari's review against another edition
5.0
Love the premise! I was rooting for Robyn and Tucker and Key and all of them.
tcbueti's review against another edition
4.0
Very intriguing adventure. Ultimately the cliffhanger ending left me feeling slightly unsatisfied.
Robyn Loxsley scavenges for tech trash to build gadgets, but one night she returns home to find her Parliament member parents gone, with evidence of injury. From this point on, she’s on the run from the minions of the oppressive governor, Crown, living in Sherwood Forest and in the Sherwood district, seeing how poppers people try to survive and ultimately stealing to feed them.
Fast moving and fun, with several helpers: Laurel, a savvy street urchin, Scarlet (the tech nerd who knows what a modem is!), and Key, who lives in the treehouse where they take shelter. We will need to read more installments to get their backstories, I suspect.
Moon lore and clues (amulet, necklaces as keys) from her Black dad and white mom frustrate Robyn—what were they trying to tell her (she hadn’t been paying attention
Robyn Loxsley scavenges for tech trash to build gadgets, but one night she returns home to find her Parliament member parents gone, with evidence of injury. From this point on, she’s on the run from the minions of the oppressive governor, Crown, living in Sherwood Forest and in the Sherwood district, seeing how poppers people try to survive and ultimately stealing to feed them.
Fast moving and fun, with several helpers: Laurel, a savvy street urchin, Scarlet (the tech nerd who knows what a modem is!), and Key, who lives in the treehouse where they take shelter. We will need to read more installments to get their backstories, I suspect.
Moon lore and clues (amulet, necklaces as keys) from her Black dad and white mom frustrate Robyn—what were they trying to tell her (she hadn’t been paying attention
kejadlen's review against another edition
3.0
Fun, liked it, didn’t love it. Had a hard time getting past the idea that the protagonist was 12, but maybe that’s since I went in expecting more YA than children’s.
itsme_lori's review against another edition
3.0
I'm very torn about this book. On the one hand, I really enjoyed Robyn and her journey to find friends and her purpose and a way to help others who needed it. I really liked the Robin Hood parallels I saw in this part of the book and the others she joined up with along the way who were also on their own for their own reasons. I liked seeing them depend on each other and learn to trust each other after all being on their own for so long. But I was not a fan of the moon lore parts. The book dragged quite a bit for me during those sections and I had a hard time really understanding why it was in there. The book would have been enough without those parts. Maybe we'll find out more about how it'll help her save Sherwood from Crown or get her parents back in later books but I feel like it took something away from what could have been a great story about friendship and trust and family and working together and helping those in need. I still enjoyed it overall but I didn't love it.
britterization's review against another edition
2.0
DNF AT 50%.
I love the premise of this one (gender-bent Robin Hood), but it just didn't do it for me. I decided to stop halfway through for a number of reasons (the book somehow managed to be kind of boring, and its VERY simply written, even for a middle grade read), but would totally recommend it as a clean read for middle grade readers or maybe as a HILO read for younger teens. I just have too many totally awesome sounding books checked out to spend more time with this one. 2 stars - what I read of it was ok.
I love the premise of this one (gender-bent Robin Hood), but it just didn't do it for me. I decided to stop halfway through for a number of reasons (the book somehow managed to be kind of boring, and its VERY simply written, even for a middle grade read), but would totally recommend it as a clean read for middle grade readers or maybe as a HILO read for younger teens. I just have too many totally awesome sounding books checked out to spend more time with this one. 2 stars - what I read of it was ok.
bookworm_baggins's review against another edition
4.0
I loved this retelling of Robin Hood! The main character, Robyn, is a bi-racial girl, and the setting is futuristic sci/fi fantasy. It wasn’t perfect but so much fun. Looking forward to more in the series.
kevinhendricks's review against another edition
3.0
A modern re-telling of Robin Hood (with technology!) that's the start of an on-going series. I read it aloud to the kids and really liked the opening, but it never seemed to settle into a rhythm. It left a lot to be solved in future chapters, which left my kids annoyed.
minxlette's review against another edition
2.0
A retelling of the Robin Hood tale, I liked the characters but felt the story was trying to do entirely too much at one time. Is it the future? Is it the past? Far too complex when a simpler setting would have sufficed.