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"Mummy says it's frightfully bourgeois to get dressed in the room with your wife. She says she supposes coal miners and people like that have to do it because their houses are so small."

If Inspector Carmichael doesn't let people go home, this house arrest is going to constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

"She always treated me as if I was a dress that had come from the shop with one sleeve too long and the other too short and completely the wrong kind of sash. She used to look at me as if to say, 'Now is this a complete waste or can I make something out of it?'"

"Hurting you is the best way I know to punish myself. And, despite that I'm not much proud of it, I can't truly control myself when I see you even looking at John."

YOU IN DANGER, GIRL.

And now, dear reader, we descend entirely into farce.

Oh my Gd. This Robin is such a fucking baby. "Why didn't you open up your pandora's box of pain for me so that I would know you were spoken for? The most important thing is that I know your sexual availability to me at all times, and I can't take your word for it."

I WAS ROOTING FOR YOU, GAUGHEN. WE WERE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU. I HAVE NEVER YELLED AT A ROBIN HOOD ADAPTATION LIKE THIS. NEVER.

MOTHERFUCKER.

Oh for fuck's sake. Listening to Guy's dialog is just making me think of Richard Armitage, twirling a villainous mustache and plotting to tie the hapless opal-eyed damsel to the train tracks.

It's a first novel, I know, I know. I'M ROOTING FOR YOU, GAUGHEN. GET IT TOGETHER.

Plus one star for including a kattari! Contemporary trade routes! Medievalpoc would be proud!

Seriously, if Robin's Merry Men spent this much time talking about their feelings, everyone in Nottingham would have starved to death five times over.

Gaughen can write action! Don't be afraid to write action!

Oh come on. I KNOW you are not trying to play John Little like that. Don't fuck with me, Gaughen. DON'T FUCK WITH ME.

My suspicions about Scarlet's true identity had better be wrong. Shit, this book is totally sucking me back into my Robin Hood obsession. Forgive me, ILL, for the sins I am about to commit in the name of the Hood.

Oh, come on now. p. 64 is a little soon to be playing the *~drama~* card.

Full disclosure: I will absolutely be judging every sentence in this book against the delightful Outlaws of Sherwood. So I will probably be harsh. For that, dear reader, I do apologize. If you haven't read Outlaws of Sherwood, I do not apologize, and half of your life has been wasted.

"All I want to say is when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to."

I LAHV HER.

Ugh. The Amity SUCK.

"It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? But please, when you see an opportunity... Ruin them."

I WISH FOUR HAD BEEN MY MENTOR.

Just reading about some of the initiation stunts makes my heart race. I was clearly made for Erudition.

What's really pissing me off now is the idea that any insurgent resistance could exist ANYWHERE which did not rely on contact with and favor of local civilians. See also: Defiance.

I'm really enjoying the alternative history of this novel, but, come on. Like the British would have been THAT much better treated than the Soviets? Like really, for real?

"If putting your requirements on the table means you risk him walking away, it's a risk you have to take. Because that fear can trip you up every time."

Steve Harvey is...making sense.

I was told by a friend and co-worker that this good reading. I'm surprised at how...not bad it is?

BUT WHERE IS BETHAN REALLY?

I have read good Holocaust books and I have read bad ones. But I have never read one SO TACKY.

"She's wearing jean shorts, cutoffs, like Daisy Mae. Her legs are long and tan and muscular..."

OH REALLY? Because you spent the first half of the novel talking about how Sage was a completely nocturnal loner. I'm so glad she found time to tan and hit some Pilates classes.

So this just became a one star book. All-caps rant will appear in review. There will be blood.

I hate that I can't stop reading this book.

NEWSFLASH: if every different voice in a mutli-POV story requires a different font, then the author did not do her job well.

If Alina doesn't want Nikolai, he is VERY WELCOME over here.