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The Black Arrow

Robert Louis Stevenson,

John Sutherland (Introduction)

Start date: March 15, 2015

Finish date: April 15, 2015

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May 27, 2023 Steve rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, adventure

Pretty good. Actually pretty great up until Book III (My Lord Foxham). At that point I think the novel surrendered itself to serial plot manipulations to help move things along. Foxham was the first major shallow character to appear. It's noticeable because Stevenson is so good at giving you morally complex characters. Stevenson is unique in that he's both genre writer and a writer's writer, the kind of writer that serious writers study. In The Black Arrow's case, the genre writer sort of won ou ...more

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Feb 04, 2022 superawesomekt rated it really liked it

Shelves: england, atwi80b-challenge

I love Robert Louis Stevenson adventure stories. This one is one of my brother's favorite books (along with The Three Musketeers) and so I was excited to read it. I think I like Kidnapped better, but I enjoyed the War of the Roses setting and the nuanced heroes / villains. ...more

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