A review by adriannafurtado
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green

5.0

This book happens to be the first piece of fiction I've read in along time. It was absolutely lovely! I could imagine everything going on - something I have really struggled with when I was younger. Language was fairly easy to understand despite there being a fair amount of old english words and phrases. The book was easy to dip in and out of and chapters were short so it kept my attention. I would have liked to see more of a relationship being developed with the characters but I understand that this is aimed at a younger audience so it was most likely that the plot was the driving focus. I really was interested by the moral implications the characters faced. I liked questioning where I felt my place was in the story - who my loyalties lied with, what I found just and unjust. This reminded me of the D&D Alignments e.g chaotic good, true neutral, lawful good...etc. I found myself placing the characters within the traits of the model in order to try make sense of the way they were thinking, why they did what they did and even trivialise what they might do. I would this to anyone who loves the forest aesthetic and adventure plots with the constraints of moral implications. I could see myself reading this again.