Scarlet, Stephen Lawhead
Scarlet, Stephen Lawhead
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Scarlet

Author: Stephen Lawhead

Narrator: Adam Verner

Unabridged: 12 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 03/16/2021

Synopsis

After losing everything he owns, forester Will Scarlet embarks on a search for none other than King Raven, whose exploits have already become legendary. After fulfilling his quest--and proving himself a skilled and loyal companion--Will joins the heroic archer and his men.Now, however, Will is in prison for a crime he did not commit. His sentence is death by hanging--unless he delivers King Raven and his band of cohorts.That, of course, he will never do.Wales is slowly falling under the control of the invading Normans, and King William the Red has given his ruthless barons control of the land. In desperation, the people turn to King Raven and his men for justice and survival in the face of the ever-growing onslaught.From deep in the forest they form a daring plan for deliverance, knowing that failure means death for them all.Scarlet continues Stephen R. Lawhead's riveting saga that began with the novel Hood, which relocated the legend of Robin Hood to the Welsh countryside and its dark forests. Steeped in Celtic mythology and the political intrigue of medieval Britain, Lawhead's trilogy conjures up an ancient past and holds a mirror to contemporary realities. Prepare for an epic tale that dares to shatter everything you thought you knew about Robin Hood.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Werner on September 28, 2010

With this volume, Lawhead continues his deft re-imagining of the Robin Hood legend, set in the Welsh Marches of the late 1000s. There's no "second-book-in-the-trilogy" slump here; the story arc moves steadily forward, and the telling is suspenseful and well-paced. All of the general comments from my......more

Goodreads review by Gillian on May 05, 2015

I enjoyed Hood (the first book in this series) and stuck with it until the end of the book, but it didn't instantly inspire me to pick up book two. So it was several months before I found myself leafing through the first pages of Scarlet, but oh how glad I am that I did. Here Will Scarlet takes the l......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on July 08, 2013

When I was a boy we lived on a farm. There were no public libraries where I could go and money was tight...so books were a bit scarce. The small school library, a World Book Encyclopedia...Progressive Farmer magazine and a few books around the house were all I had access to. In the summer I often re......more

Goodreads review by Isaac on October 11, 2020

It’s been a long time since I read Hood, the first book in this series. For this reason I had a hard time remembering any previous events that had taken place and while this certainly isn’t ideal, Scarlet worked really well as a more or less standalone book. I got a little confused at times with the......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy on November 19, 2010

Scarlet is at least an improvement over Hood. There are sympathetic characters and an actual plotline, even if it's near-hopelessly muddied by transitions between Scarlet-as-narrator and actual third-person-omniscient in two separate chunks of timeline. Scarlet's verbal tics (calling people "fella" a......more

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