Greenwode
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Daring the old gods. Defying the new. The making of a legend--and a truly innovative re-imagining of Robin Hood. Rob of Loxley and his older sister Marion have been groomed from birth to take their parents' places within the Old Religion. Despite this, when Rob finds an injured nobleman's son in the forest, neither he nor Marion understand what befriending young Gamelyn could mean for the future of their beliefs. Already the ancient spirits are fading beneath the iron of nobleman's politics and the stones of Church subjugation. More, the druid elders warn that Rob and Gamelyn are cast as sworn adversaries, locked in timeless and symbolic struggle for the greenwood's Maiden. Instead, in a theological twist only a stroppy dissident could envision, Rob swears he'll defend the sacred woodland of the Horned God and Lady Huntress to his last breath--if his god will let him be lover, not rival, to the one fated as his enemy. But in the eyes of Gamelyn's Church, sodomy is unthinkable... and the old pagan magics are an evil that must be vanquished
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5 primary books#1 in The Books of the Wode
The Books of the Wode is a 5-book series with 5 released primary works first released in 2013 with contributions by J. Tullos Hennig.
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DNF - PG 81
Why?
Honestly, I'm a romantic and if romance crops up in whatever I'm reading (note: I'm happy enough without it) I want it to make me feel good. Not like I need to shower. I have no current interest in wanting to read this. Picture this: Boy A and boy B meet, become close friends, even if they don't get to spend a lot of time around each other. Five years pass and boy A has been ‘sleeping around' (no problems there, it's off screen and he doesn't have any feeling for boy B. Yet.) and then he meets boy C. Then, within the day, boy A realizes that he has feelings for boy B. (They might just be feelings in his pants, but he has feelings.) That night (this all takes place in less than twelve hours and almost certainly no more than six) boy C offers sex to boy A. Boy A takes him up on it - little more than a distraction, it sounds, for his feelings towards boy B - AND boy B catches them at it and sneaks away, proceeding to get himself off to the thought of boy A and boy C together. (He also then feels guilt and, apparently, attempts to ‘pray away the gay'.)
Added to that (though that was the last straw) is me either not doing my proper research into the book back (ages ago) when I added it to my TBR or me actually thinking a fae story would be something that would work for me. (They're usually not. Ever.) Ooh, and the story is told in an ye olde worlde manner of speech that, while not terrible, I found totally distracting. (When I was about nine years old, I tried to read Robin Hood. I couldn't understand a lick of it and never tried again.)
It is sort of a shame that this didn't work out for me, as it seems to be something of a gay, teen Robin Hood retelling.
