Yi itibaren Valdearenas, Wilayah Guadalajara, Sepanyol
Retelling of Robin Hood legend -- she tells it straight, but in the modern interior-psychological style. The writing is extraordinarily clumsy, from the sentence-structure level to the introduction of backstory (which often shows up five seconds before it's needed to support some new development). I'm not familiar enough with the canon to evaluate the story's effectiveness as fanfic. I have some minor plausibility problesm -- how does a lord's daughter get to be best buddies with two working men's sons? and what, nobody notices when Marian develops the muscle to shoot a longbow? Her dresses would stop fitting! Sexual tension between Robin and Marian simply isn't there unless you bring it in with you. Between Cecily and Little John it's present but could stand some improvement, plus insert Girl Dressed As Boy Rant here: let's play a game with homoeroticism and then pretend it never happened! The book could have developed the characters if it had been twice as long; as it is, some of them (Cecily, John, Marian) come across as real people who simply haven't been portrayed in any detail, but others (Alan and Marjorie, Tuck) were tagged with one or two characteristics, and that's all they have. Despite being the POV character, Robin himself deosn't come through very well. We hear the other characters describe him (as pessimistic, for example), but we don't see it.
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One of my all-time favorites.