A review by jklbookdragon
Shadows of Sherwood by Kekla Magoon

4.0

I discovered this excellent author through A Tyranny of Petticoats, and decided that I wanted more. This is a delightful reframing of the Robin Hood story in a dystopian future. Robyn Loxley is a mixed-race girl about twelve years old. When her parents are "disappeared" by the power-hungry Governor Crown, she learns to live by her wits with the help of friends she finds in the lower-income area known as Sherwood and the adjacent forest. There is an interesting element of old religion in the book as well that Robyn learns about as she struggles to understand the gifts and signs that her parents left for her. I look forward to the next book in this series (trilogy?).