No Good Deed

by Kara Connolly

"Ellie is USA's best shot at Olympic gold in archery, but one wrong turn in Nottingham on her day off from the trials and she's somehow been transported back to the Middle Ages. Amidst an evil sheriff who wants to lock her up, a knight who might not be who he says he is, and an assassination plot, she must not only find her way back to the present, but fight to survive and not change history"--

• ISBN10: 0375991409
• ISBN13: 9780375991400
• Publish Date: 18 July 2017
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Imprint: Delacorte Press
• Format: Hardcover (Library Binding)
• Pages: 352
• Language: English

Reviews

[Beth C.]

Robin Hood is a legend – robs the rich, gives back to the poor. But what if the legend as we have always known it was wrong? What is Robin Hood was really a girl and she was actually an accidental time traveler? In No Good Deed, that’s exactly the case.

Ellie is an archer – an excellent one. Good enough that the Olympic dream is within her grasp. However, her parents are pressuring her, her coach is pressuring her, and her absent brother Robin – the star of the family – is a pressure she cannot escape no matter how well she may tune everyone else out. When she follows a monk she believes was the one she stopped a match for, well…those pressures literally disappear into the future.

I’ve always been a fan of the Robin Hood stories. I’ve seen the movies, I’ve read the classic novel, and I can probably sing the Disney songs verbatim. So I was curious about this re-telling and the idea of Robin actually being a girl – particularly in a time when girls were not seen as particularly valued in so many ways. Connolly did well in writing a fun take on the legend, and doing honor to it as well.

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