![]() And then Scarlet herself, who besides being a strong, brassy protagonist, is also a female antihero. ![]() First, Robin Hood, a landless earl devoted to saving his people. Well, in Scarlet, there are two of those characters. Tall, dark and handsome, mysterious past, full of honorable intentions to atone for past mistakes. I fell into an easy rhythm and really worked.īy far, my favorite character type in any given novel is the melancholy antihero. I got used to Scarlet’s “I were smiling at him” and “He were ‘bout to see my mug” diction. ![]() Normally, I would have hated it I mean, the entire book is written “incorrectly.” But I actually think it worked. It’s narrated in first person from Scarlet’s point of view, and let’s just say that Scarlet has some issues with her grammar. The first thing I noticed (and eventually came to like) about this book was the style Gaughen writes in. By page 10, I knew I was going to love Scarlet. It’s also very rare that I get all swoony over the main character’s love interest, especially if I get swoony in the first chapter. It is very rare anymore that I’m completely in love with a book halfway through the first chapter. However, my little sister is the leading YA epic fantasy/fatasy-esque historical fiction expert, so when she said Scarlet was good, I figured it was worth a try. ![]() It really wasn’t a book I was interested in. ![]() I probably/most likely/definitely never would have picked up Scarlet on my own. ![]()
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