I loved Robin McKinley's Outlaws of Sherwood with my whole heart... up to the point when the Guy of Gisbourne plot kicks in. As a kid I reread it time after time, and usually stopped there, or only skim-read the rest for the parts I did like. (It's not that it's badly written at that point, or anything, but it wasn't what I wanted the story's ending to be, and even as an adult I do think that it's grim in ways it doesn't have to be and that don't work for me.)
Edit: oh, and also, CS Lewis's The Last Battle! Parts of it worked SO well for me, but kid me hated everything to do with Shift the Ape, and so I'd skim-read for the parts with Tirian and Jewel and Eustace and Jill.
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Date: 2023-11-07 04:57 am (UTC)Edit: oh, and also, CS Lewis's The Last Battle! Parts of it worked SO well for me, but kid me hated everything to do with Shift the Ape, and so I'd skim-read for the parts with Tirian and Jewel and Eustace and Jill.