Reviews

Robin Hood: The Story Behind the Legend by David B. Coe

riverdogbookco's review against another edition

2.0

The best part about this book was the reader, Robin Sachs, but I might be a bit biased because I like low gravelly voices talking to me in foreign accents. (I "read" this as an audio book.) There were many days when I sat in my driveway after having come home, continuing to listen to Robin read me the story. The story itself wasn't half bad (though it was only half good). It was just so godawful SLOW, and I don't mean Robin's reading. Because it was a movie adaptation, there's only so much characterization it can get into, so we're told and not shown a lot of character development. My other main complaint is that though most of the story is told from either Robert Locksley's or Robin Longstride's point of view, the horribly written epilogue is told in Maid Marian's voice. This left me with a bad aftertaste for the book itself, as it was so inconsistent with the world building already in place. In short, unless you're solely interested in hearing a deep voice speak in English, Welsh, and Scottish accents to you, don't bother reading OR listening to this book.

bibliothecarivs's review against another edition

3.0

There's probably only three reasons to read this:
- You're a fan of Coe (the author)
- You're a fan of Robin Hood (the character)
- You're a fan of Robin Hood (the Scott/Crowe film)

It wasn't great but it was worth reading once since I fall into the last two categories.

lavenderspark's review

It's pretty much the movie verbatim. 

samtee222's review

You know what they say, "The book is better than the movie" this is not the case with this one. I really liked the movie but this book just was all kinds of boring to me. It just seemed to drag on and on and on. I have WAY TOO MANY book the slug through one.