Luke and I have been reading The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson over the past few weeks. I remember really enjoying it when I read it as a child, even if I didn't really know who was fighting in the War of the Roses. And Luke is enjoying it as well, despite the archaic language and difficult to understand motivations. After the third or fourth person was shot in the back and died in front of the main character, he did say, "This is worse than The Hunger Games !" And I have to say, he's not wrong. The main character, Dick, kills a spy in cold blood (by surprising him, not really in a fair fight) rather than be discovered, which would mean Dick's certain death. Then he has to stay all night in disguise in a monk's habit in the abbey praying for the dead spy, after which the monks clean the blood off the floor and prepare for the wedding of Dick's beloved to a greedy, conniving nobleman. During the wedding, though, the groom is shot through th...
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