The Girl in Red
From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a postapocalyptic take on the perennial classic "Little Red Riding Hood"...about a woman who isn't as defenseless as she seems.
It's not safe for anyone alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that serve as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. She is just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that doesn't look anything like the one she grew up in, the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago.
There are worse threats in the woods than the things that stalk their prey at night. Sometimes, there are men. Men with dark desires, weak wills, and evil intents. Men in uniform with classified information, deadly secrets, and unforgiving orders. And sometimes, just sometimes, there's something worse than all of the horrible people and vicious beasts combined.
Red doesn't like to think of herself as a killer, but she isn't about to let herself get eaten up just because she is a woman alone in the woods....
It's not safe for anyone alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that serve as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. She is just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that doesn't look anything like the one she grew up in, the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago.
There are worse threats in the woods than the things that stalk their prey at night. Sometimes, there are men. Men with dark desires, weak wills, and evil intents. Men in uniform with classified information, deadly secrets, and unforgiving orders. And sometimes, just sometimes, there's something worse than all of the horrible people and vicious beasts combined.
Red doesn't like to think of herself as a killer, but she isn't about to let herself get eaten up just because she is a woman alone in the woods....
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Review of ‘The Girl in Red’
Originally reviewed on Cyn's Workshop
The Girl is Red, is as one would expect a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood from acclaimed author Christina Henry. Much like with her previous retellings, this novel is as masterful in the way it reinvents the classics in modern, fantastical and unexpected ways. Henry has proven time and time again just how talented she is in the way she utilizes elements from the original tale to craft her own unique story. The elements that Henry uses, both big and small, add up in a way to bring to life this new fresh way for her to tell a story. It is not an exact retelling, but the nods to the original are subtle enough and loud enough to connect it back to the original while maintaining its own identity. Henry also uses those elements in a very modern fashion, different than with her previous retellings this one has a more modern feel to it as it steps away from the fantastical just a little to take the story towards a postapocalyptic direction.
The modern feel to the story allows the pacing and narrative to build up the tension of the story in a remarkable way. The story goes back and forth from the past to the present, and yet this does not slow down the pace of the novel, it only adds to the tension because of how Henry structures the story. She uses the past to influence the present, but Henry builds to it, she builds up that tension with a compelling narrative dripped with emotion in the tone.
The way the reader can get inside the head of Red works to make the story more interesting. It is more than just some postapocalyptic story or retelling, it has the emotional depth to it and shows readers where Red has come from, what she has gone through, how her personality and strength balance off one another to build her up. She is tough but she is also grounded and thoughtful in the way she reacts to the world around her, and that is key in this novel and what makes her stand out and essential in making her relatable to the reader.
The Girl in Red is another fantastic novel by Christina Henry. It is inventive in how it tells the story and creates so much tension making it a gripping novel that gives nothing away until the very end, keeping the reader glued to Red’s journey through the woods to grandmothers’ house.
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Originally reviewed on Cyn's Workshop
The Girl is Red, is as one would expect a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood from acclaimed author Christina Henry. Much like with her previous retellings, this novel is as masterful in the way it reinvents the classics in modern, fantastical and unexpected ways. Henry has proven time and time again just how talented she is in the way she utilizes elements from the original tale to craft her own unique story. The elements that Henry uses, both big and small, add up in a way to bring to life this new fresh way for her to tell a story. It is not an exact retelling, but the nods to the original are subtle enough and loud enough to connect it back to the original while maintaining its own identity. Henry also uses those elements in a very modern fashion, different than with her previous retellings this one has a more modern feel to it as it steps away from the fantastical just a little to take the story towards a postapocalyptic direction.
The modern feel to the story allows the pacing and narrative to build up the tension of the story in a remarkable way. The story goes back and forth from the past to the present, and yet this does not slow down the pace of the novel, it only adds to the tension because of how Henry structures the story. She uses the past to influence the present, but Henry builds to it, she builds up that tension with a compelling narrative dripped with emotion in the tone.
The way the reader can get inside the head of Red works to make the story more interesting. It is more than just some postapocalyptic story or retelling, it has the emotional depth to it and shows readers where Red has come from, what she has gone through, how her personality and strength balance off one another to build her up. She is tough but she is also grounded and thoughtful in the way she reacts to the world around her, and that is key in this novel and what makes her stand out and essential in making her relatable to the reader.
The Girl in Red is another fantastic novel by Christina Henry. It is inventive in how it tells the story and creates so much tension making it a gripping novel that gives nothing away until the very end, keeping the reader glued to Red’s journey through the woods to grandmothers’ house.
See more reviews at Cyn's Workshop and follow me on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Tumblr | | Goodreads+ | LinkedIn
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