A Gritty Young Adult Robin Hood Retelling: Scarlet

Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen is a much more realistic dive into Robin Hood. I've read this series so many times I've lost track. This series has possibly my favorite version of Rob to date. The characters are all so well portrayed and the setting is fantastic. I was a little put off by the way Scarlet talks at first, in the first book, but when you realize the reason behind it the slang became almost endearing.

However, I would definitely recommend this series for upper young adult (think more like sixteen to eighteen) because of the violence and some of the suggestive themes. See the P.C.C. below for more information.

If you love:

• Young adult historical fiction

• Robin Hood inspired

• No-spice romance (just kisses)

• Love triangles (though everyone knows who she's going to end up with).

• Women who know their way around a knife (or knives as the case may be).

• Guy as a villain along with the Sheriff

Possible Concerning Content

• Language: None

• Spice: None, kisses only

• Violence: Death, torture, battles. See Spoiler for more.

• Other: There is a child conceived out of wedlock (not the main characters). The mother gets married before the child is born.

Violence Spoiler

• There is a major character death.

• There is torture by means of slicing fingers off and starvation.

• There are battles and people die.

• A man is found to have been hung and the body is described.

Blurb:

Scarlet is good at keeping secrets. To the people of Nottingham, she's Will Scarlet, the young lad who protects those who cannot protect themselves. To Robin Hood and his band of thieves, she's the girl with a tongue as sharp as her knives. But nobody knows the truth about Scarlet's life before Nottingham--not even Rob, whose quick smiles have the rare power to unsettle her. And when someone from her past comes hurtling back into her life, everything she's fought for is suddenly at risk, including her own life . . .

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