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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
I'm so thankful today was not a good day to be outside working otherwise my time would have been torn. With more than half the book still to be read this morning I just couldn't put it down. I tried a few times, but the kids twisted my arm to keep reading through to the end. I must say they didn't have to twist my arm too hard. The Sherwood Ring was an amazingly fun book to read. It's too bad Elizabeth Marie Pope only wrote two books for children. I would be reserving yet another one of her novels from the library if she had.
adventurous
funny
informative
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I never read The Sherwood Ring as a kid, but I can tell you right now that I would have made it my whole personality. History! Ghosts! Romance! Secret documents! Humor! Emotions! Espionage! Loved it.
Fun read for fall, especially with the ghosts. I thought using the ghosts to tell different parts of the story was interesting.
This one kept coming up in one of the Christian book review groups as a book that is great for older teen girls and a good quick read for moms too. And yes, it's fantastic! It's exciting and funny and delightful. It reminds me a lot of the TV show Ghosts. I like both the British and American versions but the American version is really starting to grow on me. It blows my mind that George Washington wouldn't have known about dinosaurs!
Peggy's neglectful father dies and she goes to live with her even more neglectful uncle. Ghosts from the Civil War era help her find happiness.
Not sure if I just wasn't in the mood for a quiet read when I started this, but it did pick up for me, maybe a 3.5. Liked the Civil War ghost characters more than the current ones.
Not sure if I just wasn't in the mood for a quiet read when I started this, but it did pick up for me, maybe a 3.5. Liked the Civil War ghost characters more than the current ones.
I read this one in middle school sometime and I always remembered it, along with another of the author's books, The Perilous Gard. I remember liking this one better because it was not as scary as the Gard.
So now I've read it again and I can see why I loved it so much in middle school; it's got romance and is just a really good yarn. Of course, reading it now as an adult female in the 21st century I'm slightly appalled by the heroine's goofiness and lack of brains, especially as she is hearing stories of girls her age who were brave and intelligent and knew how to keep their wits about them in a crisis. I'll probably give this one to a friend with two adolescent daughters. I have the Gard on my list for reading soon; I'm hoping it doesn't disappoint.
So now I've read it again and I can see why I loved it so much in middle school; it's got romance and is just a really good yarn. Of course, reading it now as an adult female in the 21st century I'm slightly appalled by the heroine's goofiness and lack of brains, especially as she is hearing stories of girls her age who were brave and intelligent and knew how to keep their wits about them in a crisis. I'll probably give this one to a friend with two adolescent daughters. I have the Gard on my list for reading soon; I'm hoping it doesn't disappoint.
2024: This one never hits quite as well as The Perilous Gard. Part of that is probably that I always read it right after TPG, and TPG is undeniably a better and richer book, and then I am disappointed that Elizabeth Marie Pope didn't write any more novels. But it's still a good novel, and does an impressive job at making compelling plots in both time periods of a time-jumping book, and the prose is good and the story is sweet. I wonder how historically accurate to the Revolutionary War this is, but it's very fun.
Quod desidero obtineo.
I had never been in a place that looked so quiet, so utterly hushed. No one was in sight; not a leaf stirred or a voice broke the golden stillness that lay like a spell over everything. even the pigeons on the roof sat without cooing or preening, the afternoon light gleaming on their motionless feathers.
3/12/2021 ~ thoughts this time around...
I saw someone else's review saying that both time periods are equally interesting, and YES. That is so true. If you usually avoid books set in two time periods, because you get bored during one of the periods, don't avoid this one. It is not boring.
The ROMANCES. There are three and they are utterly adorable and shippable and everything. Why doesn't it work this way anymore? I want an English guerilla fighter to show up at my house, proclaim me his future wife, take no objections, and then go off to fight my brother in the war. Please.
HISTORY!! I need to recommend this to all my Hamilton-loving friends. And anyone who loves Revolutionary (or American in general) history. The history isn't confusing or boring, but just right for the story.
And, of course, Peaceable. You know the type of character that's like Eugenides (the Queen's Thief) and Jaron (Ascendance Trilogy) and Howl (Howl's Moving Castle)? That's Peaceable, and if you like those others but haven't met him yet, READ THIS BOOK.
(Also how did I just now notice that the title is referring to, um, the last name of two very prominent characters and not the forest in England which has nothing to do with this story? *facepalm*)
Quod desidero obtineo.
I had never been in a place that looked so quiet, so utterly hushed. No one was in sight; not a leaf stirred or a voice broke the golden stillness that lay like a spell over everything. even the pigeons on the roof sat without cooing or preening, the afternoon light gleaming on their motionless feathers.
3/12/2021 ~ thoughts this time around...
Spoiler
I saw someone else's review saying that both time periods are equally interesting, and YES. That is so true. If you usually avoid books set in two time periods, because you get bored during one of the periods, don't avoid this one. It is not boring.
The ROMANCES. There are three and they are utterly adorable and shippable and everything. Why doesn't it work this way anymore? I want an English guerilla fighter to show up at my house, proclaim me his future wife, take no objections, and then go off to fight my brother in the war. Please.
HISTORY!! I need to recommend this to all my Hamilton-loving friends. And anyone who loves Revolutionary (or American in general) history. The history isn't confusing or boring, but just right for the story.
And, of course, Peaceable. You know the type of character that's like Eugenides (the Queen's Thief) and Jaron (Ascendance Trilogy) and Howl (Howl's Moving Castle)? That's Peaceable, and if you like those others but haven't met him yet, READ THIS BOOK.
(Also how did I just now notice that the title is referring to, um, the last name of two very prominent characters and not the forest in England which has nothing to do with this story? *facepalm*)
challenging
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
I just loved this book as a ten year old. Ghosts, codes, secret passages, masquerades with dangerous searches going on---the ending was a tad disappointing, but everything up to then was a thrill to my ten year old self.
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No