Its protaganist is a young man by the name of Richard Shelton who will stop at nothing to save the woman he is in love with. The story is set during the period of the wars between the two disctinct branches (also known as the red and white roses) of the Plantagenet line. If you're wondering why I plodded my way through this can only say that once having started it I figured I simply had to finish it. Read moreįinally!! After weeks and weeks of reading this book I am finally done! The Black Arrow simply has to be the dullest book I have ever read! Masquerading as a swashbuckling novel of merely a couple of hundred pages, I found it to be slow in language, contrived in style, pathetic in characterisation, and sloppy of plot. For the modern reader, I think it's a little tougher going. Or if you want to see what kid's books were like once upon a time. But he doesn't show up until the end of the book.I would recommend this if you like adventure type stories and if you don't mind loosely plotted book. I was glad to be at the part with Richard of Gloucester, the Crookback, who became King Richard III. But there are plenty of sword fights, being captured and then daring escapes, a guy disguised as a leper, and lots more. Don't look for a lot of plot continuity in here. But there's a romance too, and plenty of fight scenes thrown in for no apparent reason whenever the story slows down. Then he finds out that a band of outlaws has targeted his benefactor and others as being responsible for the deaths of many people, including Dick's father.So who can Dick trust? Practically no one, it seems. (My 15 year old had never heard of the War of the Roses, so I'm offering a little explanation here.) Dick Shelton is an orphan who is being fostered by a tough warrior type. This is a rowdy boy's adventure story set during the Wars of the Roses between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians in England.
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