A Hoboken hipster in Sherwood Forest / Marianne Mancusi.— New York : Love Spell, 2007.
322 p. ; 18 cm.
Sequel to: A Connecticut Fashionista in King Arthur's Court
Sequel to: A Connecticut Fashionista in King Arthur's Court
1. Love stories. 2. Robin Hood (Legendary character) -- Fiction. 3. Time travel -- Fiction.
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Fashion photographer Chrissie Hayward is ready to wring the neck of her slacker coworker who has left her stranded at the King Arthur’s Renaissance Faire in upstate New York. She’s completely disappeared. Then Chrissie gets a cell phone call from her. She says she’s trapped in the future. She’s been time-traveling with Sir Lancelot and Queen Guenevere and now they’re all stuck in the twenty-second century, and would Chrissie please come bail them out? Chrissie just needs to check with the gypsy fortuneteller for more instructions. Thinking this is either a bad prank or that something is seriously wrong with her co-worker’s mind Chrissie hurries to the fortuneteller.
She soon finds herself flat on her back in twelfth-century England experiencing a “major freak-outage.” And who’s the first person she meets? Robin Hood, of course, but he’s completely clueless about robbing the rich to give to the poor. He’s moping around the forest with a gang of not-so-merry men. Chrissie passes herself off as a eunuch, and sets about getting Robin off his backside and busy doing what he’s supposed to be doing. She does note in passing that he does have a rather nice backside, and things develop from there.
Chrissie’s transformation from photographer to self-confident strategist does not slow the pace of this swiftly moving romantic adventure. A word of caution to readers who want the flavor of ye olde England to go with the action: Mancusi’s descriptions are nearly all current popular culture references. Here is Chrissie’s description of King Richard:
"I remember that in Prince of Thieves, the Kevin Costner movie, Richard is played by Sean Connery. The real Richard kind of has the same deep foreign voice thing going on, but in the face he more resembles Roger Moore. Funny." (page 314)
If this bothers you, you might try Robin McKinley’s The Outlaws of Sherwood, another woman’s action adventure with the same setting and a slightly different take on most of the same characters. However, if pop culture doesn’t bother you, enjoy Mancusi’s romp in the forest with Robin.
813.6
Fashion photographer Chrissie Hayward is ready to wring the neck of her slacker coworker who has left her stranded at the King Arthur’s Renaissance Faire in upstate New York. She’s completely disappeared. Then Chrissie gets a cell phone call from her. She says she’s trapped in the future. She’s been time-traveling with Sir Lancelot and Queen Guenevere and now they’re all stuck in the twenty-second century, and would Chrissie please come bail them out? Chrissie just needs to check with the gypsy fortuneteller for more instructions. Thinking this is either a bad prank or that something is seriously wrong with her co-worker’s mind Chrissie hurries to the fortuneteller.
She soon finds herself flat on her back in twelfth-century England experiencing a “major freak-outage.” And who’s the first person she meets? Robin Hood, of course, but he’s completely clueless about robbing the rich to give to the poor. He’s moping around the forest with a gang of not-so-merry men. Chrissie passes herself off as a eunuch, and sets about getting Robin off his backside and busy doing what he’s supposed to be doing. She does note in passing that he does have a rather nice backside, and things develop from there.
Chrissie’s transformation from photographer to self-confident strategist does not slow the pace of this swiftly moving romantic adventure. A word of caution to readers who want the flavor of ye olde England to go with the action: Mancusi’s descriptions are nearly all current popular culture references. Here is Chrissie’s description of King Richard:
"I remember that in Prince of Thieves, the Kevin Costner movie, Richard is played by Sean Connery. The real Richard kind of has the same deep foreign voice thing going on, but in the face he more resembles Roger Moore. Funny." (page 314)
If this bothers you, you might try Robin McKinley’s The Outlaws of Sherwood, another woman’s action adventure with the same setting and a slightly different take on most of the same characters. However, if pop culture doesn’t bother you, enjoy Mancusi’s romp in the forest with Robin.
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