Nottingham
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1.0 • 1 Rating
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- $24.99
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- $24.99
Publisher Description
Both a gripping historical epic and fascinating deconstruction of the Robin Hood legend, Nathan Makaryk’s Nottingham mixes history and myth into a complex study of power—one that twists and turns far beyond the traditional tale of Sherwood Forest’s iconic thief.
No king. No rules.
England, 1191. King Richard is half a world away, fighting for God and his own ambition. Back home, his country languishes, bankrupt and on the verge of anarchy. People with power are running unchecked. People without are growing angry. And in Nottingham, one of the largest shires in England, the sheriff seems intent on doing nothing about it.
As the leaves turn gold in the Sherwood Forest, the lives of six people—Arable, a servant girl with a secret, Robin and William, soldiers running from their pasts, Marion, a noblewoman working for change, Guy of Gisbourne, Nottingham’s beleaguered guard captain, and Elena Gamwell, a brash, ambitious thief—become intertwined.
And a strange story begins to spread . . .
Customer Reviews
Lost the Plot Late
The first 75% of this book is fantastic. Well written, well paced, and well developed. The author weaves a tale of political intrigue and threads the stories together very well. But then it seems like the author realized he needed to end the story and completely lost the plot. Characters like Marian who get good attention early are discarded because of the poorly plotted twists that are stupidly saved for the end. Characters betray the entirety of the early setup and we’re left with an ending that must have seemed edgey and cool to the author, but really just plays as dumb, lazy, and frustrating. The ending is so poor that this story gets one star. What a waste.