• Paperback
• 293
• The Girl in Red
• Christina Henry
• English
• 20 December 2020
• 9780451492289

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Characters Å The Girl in Red 106 Review ☆ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB × Christina Henry From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a postapocalyptic take on the perennial classic Little Red Riding Hoodabout a woman who isn't as defenseless as she seemsIt'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. 45 rounded up 5 stars to an apocalyptic dystopian bloody vulgar harsh nerve bending nail biting heart throbbing version of Red Riding Hood I never see this coming This author is merciless and definitely wilder than Grimm Brothers and I literally devoured each pages but I m still hungry for This book is gruesome reminds of us so many The world is ending and contagious virus theme projects starting from Bird Box Just like movie version the two children accompany Red are he and she just like Sandra Bullock call them 28 days later so much better version of Shymalan s Happening the situation of abandoned houses stores with full of dead people Sodenberg s Contagion and finally this is not the dystopian movie but as it is admitted on the book the creature s techniue of ripping apart of the people s abdomens is totally great tribute to Ridley Scott s Alien We have a remarkable heroine like younger but definitely rougher and tougher version of Sarah Connor mostly the second movie and ore muscled version meets girl version of Mad Max let s say Maxine When I was a child I have read too many Grimm Brothers nightmarish fairy tales and I was also disappointed about the naivety of red riding hood she cannot differentiate her grandma from a wolf come on Red Wear glasses but this super version of her Red so smart also intelligent a book worm know it all kinda girl like Hermione Granger a loner isolated one because she has hard times to trust people completely At parts she makes you think she is the protector of her own family She never acts like a young girl she s old soul always calculating every move knowing how to use sharp objects she s born as fighter and survivor Amazing heroine gripping fast paced story telling nonstop action capture your attention and hook you from the beginning You don t want to put it down I confess I let my husband feed me at the dinner when I was frantically turning the pages At least I was having sushi For most parts of the book I wanted to raise my punch at the air and scream Yessss Atta girl some parts made my stomach churned but at the end I can hear my own evil laughs because I enjoyed it Only the unanswered uestions about the government experiments and the cause of the contagion a little disturbed my mind But this book is about Red s story and her surviving fight to reach to her grandma s house I love the ending Never ending action thrilling captivating shocking parts I already added gruesome versions of Alice and Peter Pan s stories I need to read from the author because I had so much fun

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Characters Å The Girl in Red 106 Review ☆ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB × Christina Henry Here 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 like The Road by Cormac McCarthy went skipping through the woods to grandmother s house in this dystopian sci fi retelling of Little Red Riding Hood Aside from a few hackneyed attempts to insert views on certain political agendas this is a well plotted swift paced story of survival Red a young woman of mixed race with a prosthetic leg is a fierce opponent for the fallen world s wolves Gruesome outspoken and forgivably predictable The Girl in Red is a thrilling slasher You re a wolf and I m a hunter I m no Red Riding Hood to be deceived by your mask I know what you are Note uote taken from an Advanced Reading Copy

Characters Å The Girl in Red 106 Review ☆ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB × Christina Henry Sent those who survived fleeing into uarantine 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 agoThere are worse threats in the woods than the things that stalk their prey at night Sometimes t. As a Little Red Riding Hood retelling THE GIRL IN RED by Christina Henry earned 5 howling great stars from meTwenty year old Cordelia nicknamed Red is a horror junkie She knows every reason in the book why na ve people die during an apocalypse That s why she became a prepper She has always known Something Would Happen and she has no intentions of being na ve ordyingSo at the first signs of The Cough Red finetunes her survival plan convincing her family it is the only way to outsmart and outrun The Crisis The plan is simple avoid the government s uarantine camps and trek off road to Grandma s cabin in the woods some 300 miles awayDespite all of Red s preparations she underestimates one variable that has no regard for her astute plans the improbable Turns out Red never could ve guessed what was hiding in the most unexpected placesIn an upside down world full of wolves will Red her handy axe and her family ever make it to Grandma s ALIVEBULLSEYES The author is brilliantly masterful at conveying Red s voice the protagonist and narrator of this story Red is fierce stubborn endearing opinionated and flawed by her own extremes I LOVED this character and rooted for her every step of the way The writing is exceptional Enough said THE GIRL IN RED starts as an action adventure apocalypse and breaks loose into horror I wasn t expecting this but in retrospect that s exactly what the fairytale of Little Red Riding Hood does minus the apocalypse The book s cover is spectacularDROPS the axe drops from the target and doesn t score The story toggles between events Before and After Since the entire book s span is only around three months I didn t feel this strategy added to the tension The out of order events made me work harder as a reader which I typically don t mind if I m rewarded with a bump in tension The book s back cover copy makes it clear that men are a top level enemy 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 At times I thought this message went too too far in the book Not every uestion raised in the story was answered Does this mean a seuel is in the making I hope so Based on the cover I literally thought real wolves with red eyes would be involved However the artwork of the wolf is a metaphor Too bad because I thought a scene with a wolf predator would have been a great additionAll in all this Little Red Riding Hood retelling was an exciting journey of survival And since the story hits on many important bullseyes it scores as one of my favorite books read in 2019 SchNEWS Peace de Resistance Annual 2003 uarantine 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 SCHQUALL up in the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring The Marble Index until three months agoThere are worse threats in the woods than the things that stalk their prey at night Sometimes t. As a Little Red Riding Hood retelling THE GIRL IN RED by Christina Henry earned 5 howling great stars from meTwenty year old Cordelia nicknamed Red is a horror junkie She knows every reason in the book why na ve people die during an apocalypse That s why she became a prepper She has always known Something Would Happen and she has no intentions of being na ve ordyingSo at the first signs of The Cough Red finetunes her survival plan convincing her family it is the only way to outsmart and outrun The Crisis The plan is simple avoid the government s The Diary of George Templeton Strong uarantine camps and trek off road to Grandma s cabin in the woods some 300 miles awayDespite all of Red s preparations she Anaconda underestimates one variable that has no regard for her astute plans the improbable Turns out Red never could ve guessed what was hiding in the most The Essential Mrs. Humphry Ward Collection (28 books) unexpected placesIn an Nonfiction Outline upside down world full of wolves will Red her handy axe and her family ever make it to Grandma s ALIVEBULLSEYES The author is brilliantly masterful at conveying Red s voice the protagonist and narrator of this story Red is fierce stubborn endearing opinionated and flawed by her own extremes I LOVED this character and rooted for her every step of the way The writing is exceptional Enough said THE GIRL IN RED starts as an action adventure apocalypse and breaks loose into horror I wasn t expecting this but in retrospect that s exactly what the fairytale of Little Red Riding Hood does minus the apocalypse The book s cover is spectacularDROPS the axe drops from the target and doesn t score The story toggles between events Before and After Since the entire book s span is only around three months I didn t feel this strategy added to the tension The out of order events made me work harder as a reader which I typically don t mind if I m rewarded with a bump in tension The book s back cover copy makes it clear that men are a top level enemy 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 Strangers and Kin The American Way of Adoption uniform At times I thought this message went too too far in the book Not every Teresa (European Classics) uestion raised in the story was answered Does this mean a seuel is in the making I hope so Based on the cover I literally thought real wolves with red eyes would be involved However the artwork of the wolf is a metaphor Too bad because I thought a scene with a wolf predator would have been a great additionAll in all this Little Red Riding Hood retelling was an exciting journey of survival And since the story hits on many important bullseyes it scores as one of my favorite books read in 2019