I am a bit of a Stephen Lawhead fan so when his latest book, Hood appeared on the shelves I grabbed it. I didn't read it straight away, with so many books on my bookshelf still to be read and me being such a slow reader, it's taken me all year to get to this one.
Hood, as the name suggests relates to his take on the Robin Hood myth and is the first book of the King Raven trilogy.
The link above will give you the blurb on the storyline so I won't bother with that but I will say this; In a lot of ways (well most in fact) this story does not follow the typical well known idea about Robin Hood and his band of merry men. In my view this is a good thing, it's makes it interesting and maybe (without having any knowledge of the true history of the times) more realistic and believable.
This first book deals mainly with setting the scene and introducing the characters, so if you have not read any of Lawhead's other stuff then you might find this a tad on the boring side, simply because the story doesn't go anywhere fast. I admit to feeling like this a few times whilst reading it (and as I said, I'm a fan) but he writes beautifully and by then end the story starts to really get going which suggests the following books will be worth reading.
The next book in the trilogy, Scarlet is also now available (and is on my Christmas wish list!)
Monday, October 29, 2007
Book: Hood by Stephen Lawhead
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I got this out of the library when it first came out and as is typical, didn't get around to reading it.
I like it when stories don't follow the expected path. My problem with Lawhead though is he seems to start off good (Taliesen) but then starts to get really boring. At least, he did in his Grail series...
Yeah, Grail was a real anticlimax to the Pendragon Cycle (this was the first group of his books I ever read) but having read a few of his other trilogies and singular novels the same disappointment hasn't been realised so I have high hopes for this one.
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