![]() ![]() ![]() This is officially #5 in the Kinda Fairytale series of fantasy romances, but it stars all-new characters in a different setting from the earlier books, it's my very favorite out of all of the books in the series so far, and you could absolutely start here before going back to read any earlier books. I loved the way Gannon worked new twists into so many of the old Robin Hood stories, I loved how joyfully bad Marion was in her new life (after a first-time-through where she'd forced herself to live up to all sorts of misogynist standards of maidenly virtue), and I enjoyed every single moment of the story so much that, after I finished my first read, I made myself a fresh hot chocolate and went straight back to read it all over again (to really savor how cleverly Gannon had put together all of the pieces). This time round, the delightfully villainous and unrepentantly bitchy new version of Marion is WAY more interested in taking a second look at the brooding Sheriff of Nottingham - and while her new, obsessive fixation on him may be just as shamelessly unhealthy as his lifelong obsession with her always has been, it's hilarious and enormously fun to watch them stalk and prowl around each other in perfect synchronicity. So I absolutely adored this delicious new twist on them, in which Maid Marion - now older, wiser, and offered the chance of a time-travel-powered do-over - heads back to change her earlier life, fix her mistakes, and dump the guy who left her pining and virginal in a tower while he had fun adventures with his buddies in the forest. I grew up hooked on the Robin Hood stories.
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