leos_bookish_support 's review for:

Marian by Ella Lyons

4.0

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was a nice book to read in one sitting, honestly. 

I love how the author portrays how you can not do much against the injustice of the world and how cruel it can be, especially when you are younger. You will get stronger when you get older, how the strength is shown depends from person to person but I personally loved how Ella Lyons wrote Marian as someone who knew injustice and knew how to help others, all in silence and where nobody knew. 

I would have LOVED to see more of the „steal the rich, help the poor“ scenes. 

The book also shows how much power and knowledge a woman can hold but how much they are not worth in the eyes of man. Oh, how I could not stand King John, he deserved everything bad honestly. 

Ella Lyons also wrote about Marian's feelings towards Robin a lot and showed how complicated love actually can be. It's not rosy and cute all the time, you can be hurt easily and that hurt can stick to you. 

Also topics of loss and starting again after were touched, but since it was a short book I feel like it had kinda not the time AT ALL to go deep into those subjects. 

The author scrapped them and I love her for it, but for me personally, it was just not enough if you know what i mean. I would also have loved if we could get more of Marian and Robin scene after what happened at the end of the book, it was more like a open ending. 

I still recommend that book if you want something to get out of a reading slump, something with a bit of action and love thrown into it.