A lot of subplots are brushed aside to show how awesome Marian/Matty is. The hawk mastering scenes are detailed to the point of also being boring. Maid Marian is unerringly perfect and therefore boring, and everyone else is disastrously underdeveloped. Oh, and did I mention she can talk to the hawks? Like, legit conversations? Gag me with one of those anachronistic potatoes from the potato hole she couldn't fit in. She is the most smart, clever, cunning, pretty, brave, fearless person ~ever~ and everyone loves her and if you don't love her, then you're evil! Look at how nice Marian is, she remembers a leper woman's name! She is the bestest member of the Merry Men and even though she resents being left out of the stories, she's totes okay with it because she's PERF.
Maid Marian is some kind of hawk mastering master and surpasses even her father at a very young age. It carries itself as a historical fiction novel - but by the end of it, everything falls apart and is a failure of what is supposed to be a historical fantasy AU. This book, however, is a hot sweaty nonsensical mess of a novel. I loved Kathryn Lasky's GUARDIANS OF GA'HOOLE series.
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