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Sherwood
I loved Hunted by Meagan Spooner, it's one of my favorite fairy tale retellings. So I was very excited for the author's next book, Sherwood, which is a feminist, gender-flipped retelling of Robin Hood. I did enjoy it but I didn't love it as much as Hunted. I liked the premise of the story and I liked the characters, Marian and other outlaws, but I found the book slow-paced in many parts. The action didn’t really pick up until the last 30 percent of the book and that's when it got really interesting, but for the first two thirds of the book almost nothing exciting happened. Maybe I would have enjoyed Sherwood more if my expectations weren't so high.