No Good Deed

by Kara Connolly

[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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