Bluebeard and the Outlaw – Tara Grayce
Series: A Villain’s Ever After #3
Type of book: audiobook
Narrator: Liz Brand
Length: 5 h 2 min

Synopsis from Goodreads:
Marriage: the ultimate heist.
Robin of the Wood spends her days robbing from the rich to feed the poor. But she and her merry band of brothers never seem to get anywhere. The more she steals, the more the evil Lord Guy “Bluebeard” taxes the villagers.
When Robin discovers that Lord Guy plans to marry yet again, she conceives a plan for a final, big score. As Guy’s wife, she will have access to his wealth. The lord is notorious for killing his wives shortly after he marries them, but Robin has no plans to be dead wife number four.
The only problem is that Lord Guy is devastatingly handsome, brooding, and nothing at all what she expected. If she isn’t careful, she might just find that he steals her heart before she can rob his riches.

I felt like this story had quite the potential but not did not really live up to what it could have been. Where do I start?

It was fun that Hood’s band was her brothers but that did not help the story. It felt a bit forced that all of them were siblings and that they just followed everything Robin says blindly. It felt like Robin could not do anything wrong, she did not have any faults. Even when she did play a noblewoman quite poorly, no-one questioned whether she was the person she was pretending to be or not.

I would have expected that someone who had spent a lot of time chasing a person would have suspected something? And they could have done more with the sheriff, there was a potential for him to take a bigger character role in the beginning of the book? Now it did not really make sense as to why he was spending so much time at that house?

As an archer I always find it fascinating to read descriptions of shooting arrows and bows in books. This one was perhaps not spot on but it was not any major errors that poked me in the eye while reading anyway.

I think that I am giving this book a weak 3 stars out of 5. I did enjoy listening to this book, it was a fun variant of the Robin Hood story, but it could have been so much more.