A review by tiffyjayekuhlmom
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

3.0

I bought 'The Hero and the Crown' to read on our beach trip this summer. I fell in love with it and thought it was great...until the last 3/4. Maybe it was the beach cocktails but it got very confusing for me. So her "great battle" with her uncle took her years, okay. Then her new boyfriend has to take her back to the current time to help fight the evil Northerners. Soooo, why didn't he take her back to the beginning of the fight, to save her dad? And why didn't boyfriend go fight Uncle with her instead of her doing it alone? He seemed to talk smack about Tor, but no doubt Tor would have helped wage battle with her against her uncle, while boyfriend was too scared!
The last couple of chapters wrapped it up okay. But there was definitely a section in the middle that seemed to be a different book.