** spoiler alert ** 
 I think the best word to describe this book is put simply: Cute. 
 It's the typical "Girl likes guy but he's secretly her enemy, sort of" kind of romance novel. Odette poaches the king's deer (to feed poor cute little orphans, of course, because what other motivation could a likable heroine have?) and her love interest is a forester whose beloved adoptive father was killed by, you guessed it, a poacher. 
 The book had its darker moments in that some scenes involve a young girl trapped in a brothel (though to be honest, the dark side of these scenes were implied more than shown), but something about it was so sugary and upbeat that I don't think I ever doubted the characters would (rather easily) clear up their differences and live happily ever after with no hint of remaining trouble. And while there are times I WANT to read something sweet and perky, I like a little angst icing on top and the angst here didn't QUITE cut it for me because of how easily things got patched up. 
 Odette gets the man she wants, the bad guys all get what's coming to them (and no deaths, either, just imprisonment and big fines), the orphans all get fed, and nobody is unhappy, even the monetarily ruined uncle who doesn't deserve it. 
 I think this might have been more interesting if we ever found out who the woman who pretended to be Odette at that masked ball was. I was kind of hoping it would turn out to be Kathryn, but nope, nowhere in the book is this indicated. 
 The combo of Robin Hood and Swan Lake was charmingly done, and meshed better than I would have expected, though I don't know if I liked this overall enough to re-read.