The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

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In author Jonathan Stroud’s brand new YA fantasy series set in a future England, we meet brave and fearless teenager Scarlett McCain, wanderer, and outlaw. England has been ravished by a series of catastrophes that have crushed cities or flooded them. It has now been split into seven religious kingdoms where the remaining population live in towns that are well protected from the outside and try to live a normal life.

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The story is set in a future Britain. Britain is now split up, lawless and has lots of strange, dangerous beasts roaming about in it. Da der Autor in meiner Lieblingsbuchhandlung eine Lesung hatte, wollte ich doch unbedingt etwas von ihm lesen. Seine Reihe Scarlett & Browne klang interessant, deshalb habe ich kurzentschlossen zu Band 1 gegriffen.I love the they affect one another; Scarlett becomes more like Albert, and Albert becomes more like her.

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Content warnings for violence, a few spooky moments (cannibalistic monsters are not my favorite), and mild language This is a mistake. Soon there are men with dogs and guns and explosives hot on their heels. Scarlett’s used to being chased by the law, but this is extreme. It was only a little bank she’d robbed... That morning, with the dawn hanging wet and pale over the levees, Scarlett McCain woke up beside four dead men. Four! She hadn’t realised it had been so many. No wonder she felt stiff." Scarlett gave a bleak half-smile. “It is not really so strange. When I sit upon it, I am in a state of grace.”

For the most part, The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne is a satisfying book on its own and it does ans In this hostile England, the young and disillusioned Scarlett McCain, a lonely outlaw, will meet by chance Albert Brownie, a somewhat odd boy with his head in the clouds, who wants to leave the past behind him and reach the Free Islands that arise in the archipelago that has submerged old London.

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From the first sentence of this book, I know it was going to be a good one. I just couldn’t have predicted just HOW good it would be. Wow. I honestly enjoyed every second of reading this book. I just had so much fun and it honestly felt like nothing I’ve read before. The closest book for comparison I can think of is Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children but even that doesn’t do the peculiarity and brilliance of this one justice. It felt so wholly unique.An irresistible juxtaposition of gunslinging Wild West and waterlogged dystopian England… A thrilling adventure in an inventive new world – long live Scarlett and Browne!” Stroud gives us a Wild West type dystopian England that was a bit of a character in itself. The world is wrought with Tainted humans, oversized animals, and people who make their own rules. He gives us elements of fantasy and dystopian without it feeling familiar. He is an effortless writer (I know he probably isn't and cries behind his laptop sometimes as we writers do) but I'd like to keep this illusion going.