Member Review
Review by
Shilo Q, Reviewer
This book is EVERYTHING. I live and breathe books and I would be happy to never read another book and just live in this one. It's that good. But more than that it's the perfect book *for me.* Like Cat Sebastian knew it's been rough lately and wrote it just for me. I'm predicting it makes it *at least* into my top 5 books this year.
It’s a cleverly disguised Robin Hood and Marian book. It’s the *perfect* Robin Hood and Marian book. I want to paper my walls in quotes from this book (and I probably highlighted enough to do just that - a full 11 single-spaced pages of them!!) and just live in this story from now on. Is this because I love Robin Hood stories? Yes, partly. But also I love queer love stories and Cat Sebastian's writing in general, and the Queer Principles of Kit Webb in particular, so this was just the happy convergence of all of my favorite things.
This is an *excellent* queer love story. Both leads are bisexual and Marian is probably some flavor of asexual and the dynamic is very much a dominant/aggressive/in charge Marian and a submissive Rob who only wants to please her. That stable scene! She pins him against the wall! Flip the gender status quo of historical romance why don’t you? I LOVE it.
I love how Marian is the prickly and closed-off and responsible one in this relationship, and Rob is friendly and charming and is distracted by kittens. And, now that I think of it, this is yet another case of me falling completely for a grumpy / sunshine trope.
Another reviewer pointed out that this book in a nutshell is ‘disaster bisexuals’ and ‘be gay do crime’ with a side of ‘eat the rich' and if that isn’t Marian and Rob I don’t know what is. I can't top that as a description.
I see hints of future books of 'be gay do crime' and i just want to say YES PLEASE. And baby Eliza will be raised by four doting queer parents and immersed in planning of heists before she can talk. I desperately want more books in this world, with these people.
*Thanks to NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for providing an e-arc for review.
It’s a cleverly disguised Robin Hood and Marian book. It’s the *perfect* Robin Hood and Marian book. I want to paper my walls in quotes from this book (and I probably highlighted enough to do just that - a full 11 single-spaced pages of them!!) and just live in this story from now on. Is this because I love Robin Hood stories? Yes, partly. But also I love queer love stories and Cat Sebastian's writing in general, and the Queer Principles of Kit Webb in particular, so this was just the happy convergence of all of my favorite things.
This is an *excellent* queer love story. Both leads are bisexual and Marian is probably some flavor of asexual and the dynamic is very much a dominant/aggressive/in charge Marian and a submissive Rob who only wants to please her. That stable scene! She pins him against the wall! Flip the gender status quo of historical romance why don’t you? I LOVE it.
I love how Marian is the prickly and closed-off and responsible one in this relationship, and Rob is friendly and charming and is distracted by kittens. And, now that I think of it, this is yet another case of me falling completely for a grumpy / sunshine trope.
Another reviewer pointed out that this book in a nutshell is ‘disaster bisexuals’ and ‘be gay do crime’ with a side of ‘eat the rich' and if that isn’t Marian and Rob I don’t know what is. I can't top that as a description.
I see hints of future books of 'be gay do crime' and i just want to say YES PLEASE. And baby Eliza will be raised by four doting queer parents and immersed in planning of heists before she can talk. I desperately want more books in this world, with these people.
*Thanks to NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for providing an e-arc for review.
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