Nottingham

by Nathan Makaryk

Book Overview

Nathan Makaryk's epic and daring debut rewrites the Robin Hood legend, giving voice to those history never mentioned and challenging who's really a hero and a villain.

"The most pleasurable reading experience I've had since first discovering George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire." -- Bryan Cogman, Co-Executive Producer and Writer, Game of Thrones

No king. No rules.

England, 1191. King Richard is half a world away, fighting for God and his own ambition. Back home, his country languishes, bankrupt and on the verge of anarchy. People with power are running unchecked. People without are growing angry. And in Nottingham, one of the largest shires in England, the sheriff seems intent on doing nothing about it.

As the leaves turn gold in the Sherwood Forest, the lives of six people--Arable, a servant girl with a secret, Robin and William, soldiers running from their pasts, Marion, a noblewoman working for change, Guy of Gisbourne, Nottingham's beleaguered guard captain, and Elena Gamwell, a brash, ambitious thief--become intertwined.

And a strange story begins to spread . . .

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250195608
• ISBN13: 9781250195609
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Robin Hood stories are always fun!

I like stories about Robin Hood. Most of them do a good job of adding their own twist to the tale and Nottingham is definitely one of them! I like how the characters, be they Marion or Robin, Richard, or Guy, are all real. You get to know them and they aren’t straight black and white characters. They have reasons for their actions which make sense to them, if not to others. That makes it hard to discover who the real villains are. It is a very entertaining story. Even the good guys make poor decisions. The chapters all have the name of whatever character the viewpoint is in which makes it easy to continue on with the story and not be confused about who is talking and doing things. It was fun to get the story of what is happening with King Richard and Robin and William over in the Holy Land as they wage their war. That part is usually skipped over. The body doubles add some humor and I like how it shows that Robin was on good terms with Richard and how he is friends with William too which is very important to this story. Marion proves to be a strong person (I like when stories make Marion be strong in Robin’s absence) and making the term be Marion’s Men, instead of Merry Men is a nice touch. Guy and the Sheriff Roger de Lacey are great grey characters. Arable was also interesting. And of course, Little John and Alan are fun characters, and Friar Tuck. Will was a wild card but showed his true colors and Prince John was chaos personified. I like that there were new characters added to give depth to the story. The ending was quite unexpected but I like that too, after I got over the initial shock of what had happened.