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Robin Hood #8
Ballots, Blasts & Betrayal
The eighth episode in the latest sure-fire hit series from the bestselling author of Cherub. Teen rebel and social-media star Robin Hood continues his epic struggle against the corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham and brutal crime boss Guy Gisborne.Robin Hood is campaigning to get his dad, Ardagh Hood, elected Sheriff of Nottingham. But their rival is arch-gangster Guy Gisborne, who won't hesitate to stuff ballot boxes with fake votes to ensure that he wins the vote. And Robin has more personal worries - is he losing confidence in his ability to shoot arrows with deadly accuracy? Meanwhile Robin's half-brother Little John is caught up in his mother's presidential election campaign, further complicating contact with Robin, his father Ardagh and his relationship with his girlfriend, Gisborne's daughter Clare. The stakes get ever higher for both brothers in the eighth book of this all-action series.
231 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 14, 2024
About the author
Robert Muchamore
153 books1,951 followersRobert Muchamore was born in Islington, London in 1972. He still lives there, and worked as a private investigator up until 2005 and the critically-accepted release of Maximum Security.
The Hunger Games phenomenon is part of the huge YA / Children's book explosion that has grown, thanks to the British Rat pack of YA authors, Anthony Horowitz, Robert Muchamore, Mark A. Cooper and Charlie Higson. We owe much of the hunger games sucess to authors such as Robert.
Robert was inspired to create the CHERUB series by his nephew after he complained about the lack of anything for them to read. CHERUB: The Recruit was Robert's first book and won the Red House Children's Book Award 2005 in the Older Readers Category.
Following the last book in the CHERUB series, it was revealed that a trilogy would be released starting from August 2011 that will focus on a new set of CHERUB agents centred upon Ryan Sharma and also involve an sixteen year old Lauren Adams. The first book will be called People's Republic.
Check out the Hendersons Boys series. Henderson's Boys is a series of young adult spy novels written by English author Robert Muchamore. The series follows Charles Henderson, the creator of the fictitious CHERUB organisation.
CHERUB is currently being made into a TV series.
The Hunger Games phenomenon is part of the huge YA / Children's book explosion that has grown, thanks to the British Rat pack of YA authors, Anthony Horowitz, Robert Muchamore, Mark A. Cooper and Charlie Higson. We owe much of the hunger games sucess to authors such as Robert.
Robert was inspired to create the CHERUB series by his nephew after he complained about the lack of anything for them to read. CHERUB: The Recruit was Robert's first book and won the Red House Children's Book Award 2005 in the Older Readers Category.
Following the last book in the CHERUB series, it was revealed that a trilogy would be released starting from August 2011 that will focus on a new set of CHERUB agents centred upon Ryan Sharma and also involve an sixteen year old Lauren Adams. The first book will be called People's Republic.
Check out the Hendersons Boys series. Henderson's Boys is a series of young adult spy novels written by English author Robert Muchamore. The series follows Charles Henderson, the creator of the fictitious CHERUB organisation.
CHERUB is currently being made into a TV series.
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May 9, 2024
One long day
A non-stop ride of a book. The is in chaos. This makes Gotham City look like Metropolis. With everything that is going on, it makes this book feel rushed, not really leaving time to process anything.
It is election day. Who will be the Sheriff of Nottingham? Every dirty trick will be used, and the Rebels and the establishment will have to fight with everything they have. There is also the moral dilemma for Robin, facing the accusations of the family of prison guard he was forced to kill. However, with everything going on, will he have a chance to process it?
Interesting things are ahead for Robin and the Rebels going forward. They have more powerful enemies. Could they have an ally as well?
A non-stop ride of a book. The is in chaos. This makes Gotham City look like Metropolis. With everything that is going on, it makes this book feel rushed, not really leaving time to process anything.
It is election day. Who will be the Sheriff of Nottingham? Every dirty trick will be used, and the Rebels and the establishment will have to fight with everything they have. There is also the moral dilemma for Robin, facing the accusations of the family of prison guard he was forced to kill. However, with everything going on, will he have a chance to process it?
Interesting things are ahead for Robin and the Rebels going forward. They have more powerful enemies. Could they have an ally as well?
May 14, 2026
The Robin Hood books are my comfort-food go-to. I haven’t yet written reviews for books 4-7; a lot of them would mostly go around the same thing; how it’s a lot of fun to see our heroes outsmart corrupt lawmakers, law enforcers and dishonourable bandits. The last one had a truly cruel juvie prison and an epic prison breakout. Those were real standouts. But this one is the best of the series yet, a non-stop rollercoaster of an election set in the world of contract thugs and low-blow blackmail. You will not only, like the other Robin Hood books, completely wish this book was true, but feel like you haven’t truly lived until you’ve been part of a mission like this.
Robert Muchamore’s Robin Hood books modernize the legendary honourable thief as a twelve-year-old (now 13) with Katniss-Everdeen skills of a bow and arrow and escape artistry. Ever since his dad was framed for a crime he didn’t commit by the mayor of Nottingham, Guy Gisbourne, he’s been living with a group of established rebels, first in a deserted shopping mall in Sherwood Forest, and then an abandoned five-star resort hotel. Well, we’ve come a long way since Robin had to run from home. His father is now out of prison on appeal, and he’s running against Gisbourne for the title of mayor, and his hired goons will stop at nothing to thwart him, consisting not just of the thugs I mentioned, but officers, judges, lawyers – so many are on Gisbourne’s payroll with no shame about it.
It’s the day of the election, and it becomes clear that his goons are going to the voting booths and telling the workers that they know where they and their kids live and they will go after them if they don’t let them stuff ballots full of fake votes. So the only way for things to perhaps get better and get Robin’s dad in is by doing some additional sabotage, to cheat even more. And if that kind of story concept doesn’t excite you, I don’t know what else I can say. I’m from Canada, and we just went through an election I don’t think I’m ever gonna forget (I’m happy about the outcome for the most part), and this book had a similar air of terror about all the ways elections can go terribly wrong.
Some of the Robin Hood books before this have sagged in some areas, but I can’t think of anything bad about this one. The others take place over a fair few days, but this one is mostly just an entire single day, a mission with the gravity of hope for peace and a sense of a finish line. There’s also a more serious atmosphere than before. Robin is being smeared because of an officer he had to shoot with an arrow to save his friends, and that officer ended up dying, something he does have on his conscience. There’s one time we hear an officer say, “I don’t care if Gisbourne wants him alive. If you see that kid, shoot him.” These books have always been a little dark, but this is one of many things in this eighth entry that take it up a notch.
What other things do I mean? These books are geared towards preteens, but this one has stabbings, betrayals (like in the title), torture, kidnappings, threats of very serious prison time…the whole battlefield is right there in front of you. It also has some very shocking conclusions. There’s a real sense of an oncoming war.
I absolutely loved this book! It's the best of the series, and the others were great too!
Robert Muchamore’s Robin Hood books modernize the legendary honourable thief as a twelve-year-old (now 13) with Katniss-Everdeen skills of a bow and arrow and escape artistry. Ever since his dad was framed for a crime he didn’t commit by the mayor of Nottingham, Guy Gisbourne, he’s been living with a group of established rebels, first in a deserted shopping mall in Sherwood Forest, and then an abandoned five-star resort hotel. Well, we’ve come a long way since Robin had to run from home. His father is now out of prison on appeal, and he’s running against Gisbourne for the title of mayor, and his hired goons will stop at nothing to thwart him, consisting not just of the thugs I mentioned, but officers, judges, lawyers – so many are on Gisbourne’s payroll with no shame about it.
It’s the day of the election, and it becomes clear that his goons are going to the voting booths and telling the workers that they know where they and their kids live and they will go after them if they don’t let them stuff ballots full of fake votes. So the only way for things to perhaps get better and get Robin’s dad in is by doing some additional sabotage, to cheat even more. And if that kind of story concept doesn’t excite you, I don’t know what else I can say. I’m from Canada, and we just went through an election I don’t think I’m ever gonna forget (I’m happy about the outcome for the most part), and this book had a similar air of terror about all the ways elections can go terribly wrong.
Some of the Robin Hood books before this have sagged in some areas, but I can’t think of anything bad about this one. The others take place over a fair few days, but this one is mostly just an entire single day, a mission with the gravity of hope for peace and a sense of a finish line. There’s also a more serious atmosphere than before. Robin is being smeared because of an officer he had to shoot with an arrow to save his friends, and that officer ended up dying, something he does have on his conscience. There’s one time we hear an officer say, “I don’t care if Gisbourne wants him alive. If you see that kid, shoot him.” These books have always been a little dark, but this is one of many things in this eighth entry that take it up a notch.
What other things do I mean? These books are geared towards preteens, but this one has stabbings, betrayals (like in the title), torture, kidnappings, threats of very serious prison time…the whole battlefield is right there in front of you. It also has some very shocking conclusions. There’s a real sense of an oncoming war.
I absolutely loved this book! It's the best of the series, and the others were great too!
November 18, 2024
Short read. The ending is a little bit weird but ok.
4 stars.
4 stars.
March 13, 2025
Unputdownable.
So. Much. Fun.
So. Much. Fun.
September 24, 2025
Thought I might try and keep up with the
time stamp! Interesting idea and it worked
very well. Very entertaining!
time stamp! Interesting idea and it worked
very well. Very entertaining!
October 12, 2025
This series is so much fun, my inner child absolutely loves it. Book 8 is my favourite entry so far: a rollicking election day special with major Season Finale Vibes.
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