It’s set in a fantasy version of England, but I couldn’t tell you in what time period or really much of anything much more specific about the setting. I can’t say that it isn’t a Robin Hood retelling, but if it is, it’s in the least possible way. Robins in the Night is hard to categorize. What I found charmed and surprised me in equal measure. So when word of a self-published, lesbian retelling of Robin Hood featuring a trans protagonist started going around, I went out of my way to borrow a family member’s Kindle so I could read it. Likewise, self-publishing was picking up steam but had not yet had its heyday-while I still think that self-publishing a novel requires an admirable level of audacity, in 2015 there were far fewer people who had actually taken that leap. The literary landscape of lesbian fantasy novels was far scarcer even seven years ago than it is today the YA publishing engine hadn’t yet realized the market it could exploit, and stumbling upon even a halfway decent book felt like finding buried treasure. I first read Robins in the Night by Dajo Jago shortly after it came out in 2015.
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