This book tries to sell me the fact that Scarlet is a fierce warrior it didn't convince me in the least. 'The air whooshed from my chest,' 'the breath whooshed out of me,' 'my belly twisted,' 'my belly flipped over,' 'my heart started to flutter-beat in my chest,' 'I got that funny, twisted feeling,' 'my heart lurched,' 'my heart dropped out from my chest,' 'my knees had gone fair wobbling,' 'my stomach pushed into my pipes.' Oh, but the stomach-churning flutterings don't stop there, no! Let's see what other sort of over-extravagant emotion our dauntless fighting girl has in store for us! Now onto the flushing! 'I pulled my head away, flushed and not sure what to do, or say, or think,' 'my cheeks flush,' 'my cheeks flushed dark,' 'I flushed,' 'my cheeks went hot,' 'blood filled up my cheeks.' Let's see, blushing.how many instances are there? 'I felt heat on my face and hated that the sun would show me blushing,' 'It were dark, so they couldn’t prove I were blushing,' 'I blushed,' ' cold again but for my cheeks, which were blushing hard,' 'I were blushing hot,' 'I felt my cheeks blush,' 'I blushed hot,' 'I shake him off, blushing,' 'I blushed a little,' 'it sent my cheeks blushing,' 'I blushed a bit.'

Is she a kick-ass fighting tomboy?! Or is she a girl whose heart goes aflutter whenever she gets near Robin Hood? So many time in this book, her heart flushes, her heartbeat go pitter-patter, her belly gets butterflies. I admit, there is a fair bit of kick-assery in there, but it feels completely unrealistic becaues Will Scarlet can't decide who or what the fuck she is. A kick-ass heroine who disguises herself as a boy in order to steal from the rich and give to the poor?! FUCK YEAH, give me more of that shit. Will Blushes Scarlet: OH MY GOD JUST STAAAAHP ALREADY. *That's actually something I made up, but I wasn't exaggerrating when I say that she blushes like fucking crazy. The 'Scarlet' in her name refers to the fact that SHE CAN'T STOP FUCKING BLUSHING*

Will Scarlet is actually a 'she,' a girl disguised as a boyĢ. There are two facts about Will Scarlet that you should know before starting this book.ġ. This is an alternate retelling of Robin Hood, where Will Scarlet is a hemorrhoidal pain in the ass who talks like a Monty Python and the Holy Grail cast reject that gets involved in a horrifyingly painful love triangle WITH ROBIN HOOD AND LITTLE JOHN.

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