Shadow Of The Wolf by Tim Hall

Release Year: 2014
Publisher: David Fickling Books

Format: Hardcover
Genre(s): YA Fantasy, Retellings, HIstorical Fiction.
Pages: 471
Price: £10.99
How long did it take to read: 10 days
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2015 Reading Challenge: Read A Book That Is A Retelling.


Blurb: 
A world of gods and monsters. An elemental power rising. This is Robin Hood, reborn, as he has never been seen before...
Robin Loxley is seven years old when his parents disappear without trace. Years later the great love of his life, Marian, is also taken from him. Driven by these mysteries, and his anguish, Robin follows a darkening path into the ancient heart of Sherwood Forest. What he encounters there will leave him transformed, and will alter for ever the legend of Robin Hood...


Review:
When I first saw this book in a book store it had heard nothing about it so I decided to read the blurb. When I read it was a retelling of Robin Hood I brought it straight away but it sat on my bookshelf for a couple of months before I decided to finally pick it up after watching one of the many Robin Hood movies out there. I am glad I did.
In the Prologue little seven year old Robin is left in the woods by his father and when he finally manages to get out he finds out they have packed up and left the little village. He then moves to live in the woods on his own with nothing but a bow and arrow his farther gave to him just before he left. He never gives up hope that he will see his family again and show them how he has survived all on his own with no ones help. It does pull on your heart strings a little.
At the start of the book Marian was a hard character to like but she stop getting annoying and she gets a little bad ass at the end of the book.
This book was kind of a long read for me, the first 100 or so pages were amazing but after that I found myself forcing myself to read more of it. It was nothing to do with the story or how it was written, I think it was more to do with my book mood. I don't think I was in the right mood for a Fantasy type book just yet. Overall this book was good and if you are a fantasy/ retelling lover then I would recommend this book to you.

Happy Reading!!