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A review by bookshelfsos
Greenwode by J. Tullos Hennig
5.0
Wow, this book unsuspectingly swept me off my feet. Granted, I've always been a huge fan of Robin Hood adaptations so this might have been a guaranteed home run.
Where to even start? There was so much I loved about this book: the exquisite characterization, the slowly developed romance, the class dynamics, the action and intrigue that you'd expect of a Robin Hood adventure. It was all wonderful.
The parts that really stood out to me though were the scenes between Rob and Gamelyn. It's difficult to find characters that have such amazing and natural chemistry, but they absolutely do. Their scenes together are all electric with passion, humor, sweetness, longing, devotion, painful moments of doubt... just about every emotion that two young people are going to have when they're falling madly in love for the first time. I can't get enough of these two, but of course they are star-crossed lovers and so their circumstances are drawing them apart and leaving the reader desperately hoping that they will find each other again.
Personal preference, but I loved the dialect that Hennig wrote for Rob and his family. Oh, and speaking of Rob's family, this book has some wonderful women in it as well, something that I've found quite rare in mm romance and was so happy to find here.
Where to even start? There was so much I loved about this book: the exquisite characterization, the slowly developed romance, the class dynamics, the action and intrigue that you'd expect of a Robin Hood adventure. It was all wonderful.
The parts that really stood out to me though were the scenes between Rob and Gamelyn. It's difficult to find characters that have such amazing and natural chemistry, but they absolutely do. Their scenes together are all electric with passion, humor, sweetness, longing, devotion, painful moments of doubt... just about every emotion that two young people are going to have when they're falling madly in love for the first time. I can't get enough of these two, but of course they are star-crossed lovers and so their circumstances are drawing them apart and leaving the reader desperately hoping that they will find each other again.
Personal preference, but I loved the dialect that Hennig wrote for Rob and his family. Oh, and speaking of Rob's family, this book has some wonderful women in it as well, something that I've found quite rare in mm romance and was so happy to find here.