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Re-telling Little Red Riding Hood

Reviewed in Canada on July 30, 2020

This is brilliantly written, fun, exciting, terrifying, funny....everything you want in a book about surviving after a pandemic. It's the hero's journey, and you'll want to know how the journey ends!

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Ave

Short book and easy read

Reviewed in Canada on April 19, 2020

I enjoyed the book, but I felt it ended too rapidly.
I wish the story would have been longer, and have a bit more background.

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Virginia Greenbird

Re-telling Little Red Riding Hood

Reviewed in Canada on July 30, 2020

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This is brilliantly written, fun, exciting, terrifying, funny....everything you want in a book about surviving after a pandemic. It's the hero's journey, and you'll want to know how the journey ends!

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Ave

Short book and easy read

Reviewed in Canada on April 19, 2020

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I enjoyed the book, but I felt it ended too rapidly.
I wish the story would have been longer, and have a bit more background.

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Hailey

Not worth the cost

Reviewed in Canada on April 13, 2020

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The full book seems like a taster, a sample to a larger series. The issue isn’t resolved truly and while the book ends in hea kinda, it’s a horrible ending.

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Gilis

WAS GOOD BUT

Reviewed in Canada on July 24, 2019

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WAS A GOOD ENOUGH BOOK BUT IT FINISHED ABRUPTLY

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Character Driven Retelling

Reviewed in Canada on June 20, 2019

This was not what I was expecting! Christina Henry has always added a unique take on retellings, even dark ones, but this was not something I anticipated. Firstly, there's no wolf in a traditional sense, and while there is a slight supernatural element, there is next to no magic. It's the story of a girl seeking shelter and fighting against literally all odds.

And I loved it!

I was completely enthralled throughout. This was partly helped with the consistent tension that filled the pages. Even in "quiet" moments, I was always worried about what would happen next. While there are certainly fights, they never last longer than a few paragraphs. They are quick, brutal, and really drive home the misery of the world.

As said before, the lack of action leaves way for stellar character building and relationships. There is no romance, but the drama between Red and her family, as well as the adorable children lifted and lowered my heart. I truly loved every aspect, and Henry's incredible writing kept my eyes glued to the page. Red herself is a complex character with an excellent arc, and one thing that wasn't highlighted in the blurb was her disability, which added both drama and tension to the already atmospheric book. I also have a soft spot in my heart for Sam and Riley, as well as a couple other side characters scattered throughout.

This might not have been the exact retelling I had expected, but as with all of Christina Henry's books, was a memorable and emotional journey. I truly can't wait for her next book!

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Norma (Two Sisters Lost in a Coulee Reading)

Gripping, action-packed & frightening!

Reviewed in Canada on July 6, 2019

THE GIRL IN RED by CHRISTINA HENRY is a creative retelling with a kickass heroine and non-stop action that immediately captured my attention. I do believe that this is my very first retelling and what a way to start it all off with this book. I see more retellings in my future!

CHRISTINA HENRY delivers an interesting, terrifyingly dark, gruesome, and heart-pounding nightmarish tale here that was quite the entertaining, fast-paced, and well-written read. Red was such a refreshing and fabulous heroine! I loved everything about her character.

The tale is told from Red’s point of view in a before the apocalypse and after the apocalypse timelines which definitely created lots of tension and added to the suspense.

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Norma’s Stats:
Cover: Intriguing, eye-catching, suspenseful, foreboding, freaky, frightening and a fitting representation to storyline.
Title: Intriguing, classic, and fitting representation to storyline.
Writing/Prose: Well-written, engaging and readable.
Plot: Fairy tale retelling, fast-paced, intense, exciting, danger, compelling, suspenseful, action-packed, fabulous heroine, and gripping.
Ending: An action-packed, thrilling, bittersweet and an unresolved or open ending that came together really well for me and left me feeling quite satisfied. Of course I was left with a few unanswered questions though which I do believe works extremely well for a retelling of a fairy tale.
Overall: I was thoroughly entertained with this post-apocalyptic take on the classic fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood”. Would recommend!

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Jess E.

Fantastic story, great lead character

Reviewed in Canada on June 12, 2021

Phenomenal! Great female lead, cool premise. Very well written

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5t4n5 Dot Com

Well below Christina's usual standard.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2020

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Having read all of Christina’s previous books — which i’ve extremely enjoyed — i had very high hopes for this book: alas, it was not to be.

So “Red”, our protagonist and narator, is on a journey to her Grandma’s house across several hundred miles of the USA after a coughing plague has culled nearly all the people: basically it’s a post-apocalyptic survival story.

And the whole book is taken up with the first half of this journey until there’s an endoparasitoid-bursting-out-the-chest-thing — WTF!!! Remember Alien and Sigourney Weaver? Yeah, that’s what an endoparasitoid-bursting-out-the-chest-thing is.

The army turn up and the soldier guy who chases the endoparasitoid-bursting-out-the-chest-things admits to Red that the government made it in a lab. He lets Red carry on with her journey instead of taking her to the quarantine camp, and in a few pages Red arrives at her Grandma’s. It’s like the second half of Red’s journey didn’t happen, like she was just magically transported to her Grandma’s. And no explanation as to the endoparasitoid and why the government would make such a thing.

And it’s this one single, silly, ridiculous idea of an endoparasitoid thrown into the story with no purpose whatsoever that completely ruins the book — and also the second half of Red’s journey being skipped over as though it didn’t really happen, or was in a completely different world to the first half.

We don’t even get to know how Grandma has been surviving or anything.

Basically, the ending is utter garbage and totally ruins the whole story. It’s just a total nonsensical ending.

It just left me which such a disappointment. This is far below Christina’s usual standard.

Ho hum: i suppose we all have to write something crap once in a while.

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bookishdella

Must read dystopian

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 27, 2019

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Red has watched enough horror and post apocalyptic movies to know what to do and what not to do when the world is thrown in to crisis and a deadly cough starts to kill off the majority of the population. As an amputee with a prosthetic leg she makes sure her bag is packed with everything she will need to survive and walks for miles daily in preparation for what is to come.

She has one goal now, make it to her Grandmother’s cabin in the woods in one piece, avoiding the military camps, the militia and whatever is making peoples chests explode from the inside out.

A heart wrenching tale of loss, survival, companionship and the real life horrors we face everyday from the true nature of human beings. What happens when the rules of humanity is lost and the desires of men are left to roam free? Red doesn’t want to find out and uses all of her wit, energy and movie knowledge to ensure the wolves don’t get their prey.

I already love Christina’s writing style and dry humor. This book in particular switches between past and present events each chapter which kept me engaged and keeps certain questions open for quite a long time, we know Red’s brother is no longer with her but what actually happened to him? What happened to her parents?

As a fan of Christina Henry’s previous retelling novels, The Girl in Red is a fantastic and important addition that I would recommend to anyone looking for a good post apocalyptic tale involving a badass female.

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Kat Davis

great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 19, 2019

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I read this in a single 7 hour sitting. It certainly is a page turner with a quirky main character who has her mind set on a single goal after an apocalyptic virus wipes out much of the population.

Red, 20 years old, mixed race, bisexual, single below the knee amputee, must get through 300 miles of woodland with not much more than survival skills gleaned from what not to do in horror movies and some logic. She battles red neck militia, desperate strangers, the military, a whiny older brother, and a really screwed up monster thing to get to grandma's house.

This is certainly a pretty interesting retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, but there were some things I found annoying. Red often points out certain actions are cliched in what seems to be the author's attempt to negate the cliche. Same thing for deus ex machina. Just because the character points out the devices to the reader, doesn't suddenly make them less trite or convenient. The book ended far too swiftly with a skip of '25 days later', to finally get Red to her destination.

I did enjoy the read, I just found myself rolling my eyes in certain places.

Read this in you like quirky characters with guts in horrendous circumstances.

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