Tuck

Like the previous in the series, it's beautifully evocative of the forests of 11th century Wales. Lawhead places the Robin Hood legend in this place and period because apparently the Welsh were the experts with the longbow. They basically used the longbow to engage in guerilla warfare against the French army.

The characters aren't super strongly drawn, by far the strongest is still Will Scatlocke/Scarlet from book 2. Book 2 was the only book narrated in the first person by its main character, and Scarlet had a strong voice.

I was suprised to read that this whole series was Christian fiction! Especially in this book, about a friar, there is a lot of prayer and reference to Christian teachings, but I would never thought anything of it if I hadn't read that it was published by a Christian imprint of HarperCollins. It seemed appropriate for a medieval setting to have explicit references to Christianity.

Overall I enjoyed the series but I think you have to be pretty interested in either Robin Hood or medieval British history to be motivated to read all 3.