Sisters Red (Fairytale Retellings, #1) in Into the Forest

Dec 21, 2011 Rabbit {Paint me like one of your 19th century gothic heroines!} rated it liked it

Shelves: dark, fiction, horror, ooh-pretty-cover, books-i-read-in-2016, creatures, creepy, relationships, present-day, three-stars

Rating 3.5

I over-all really enjoyed this one. I like how dark this book was- it put the spooky back in werewolves in a traditional sense, which goes against the current trend in paranormal/horror fiction. These werewolves are not misunderstood, but legit werewolves who were soulless and preyed on young women. ~~Perhaps werewolves were used as a metaphor for another kind of predator, hmmm....~~

Sometimes Scarlett got a bit extra when it came to other women, which irked me a bit.

There is a love story, ...more

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Apr 03, 2014 Nora Peevy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

At first, I was skeptical about this one because of the brewing teenage romance. I worried it was the introduction of sparkly werewolves and another messed up pregnancy. But thankfully, Pearce escaped the sparkly teenage angst dysfunction and delivered a killer retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. The sisters are kickass hunters, along with their childhood friend, the woodsman.

The plot moves faster than a sparkly vampire runs. (Can you tell I'm not a fan of whiny sparkly vamp angst romance? *gr ...more

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Aug 31, 2011 emily rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: the-moon-howls-back, orphans, siblings, animal-shapeshifters, death, retellings, young-adult, fairytales-n-folklore, magical-creatures

I would like to express my annoyance that goodreads doesn't let us us half stars once more. This book wasn't quite a 4 star for me, but it comes very, very close, 3.6ish.

I love fairy tales, and I adore retellings, however, often, they never quite capture enough emotion in me as I would like. I've heard about this book for years, it's been on my to-read list, but I never got around to it despite all the good things I had heard. I'm definitely glad I read it. The reason it isn't quite a 4 star fo I would like to express my annoyance that goodreads doesn't let us us half stars once more. This book wasn't quite a 4 star for me, but it comes very, very close, 3.6ish.

I love fairy tales, and I adore retellings, however, often, they never quite capture enough emotion in me as I would like. I've heard about this book for years, it's been on my to-read list, but I never got around to it despite all the good things I had heard. I'm definitely glad I read it. The reason it isn't quite a 4 star for me though........it didn't feel much like Little Red Riding Hood.

Don't yell at me just yet, I truly enjoyed the new take on the story, I found it compelling, I read it almost all in one sitting and I loved the characters.

But.....

It had wolves, it had the red cloaks, it had girls as the victims, and the grandmother dies.....

That's it.

Other than those elements, it felt very much like a typical YA fantasy book. There was a teen love story (which my cynical self has always kind of hated even when I was a 14 year old girl) though thankfully, this one didn't quite make me gag and wasn't the center of the novel. The take on the werewolves (called Fenris in this story) was interesting and felt scary, but....it never felt like a fairy tale to me. It felt like a YA fantasy novel. I honestly don't know what would have made it feel more like a fairy tale and less like a modern story, but I know it wasn't there for me. Which is why I ended up with the lower rating.

That being said, I really did like it. Girls kicking ass and taking it upon themselves to hunt wolves, Fuck yes, I was so there. Scarlett was fierce and driven and a complete badass. One single event changed her life and gave her a purpose. Her devotion to her sister and to saving other girls was lovely and absolutely brilliant. We need more heroines like her in novels that is for sure. Rosie.....I didn't dislike Rosie, and I understood a lot of where she was coming from, but I wasn't quite as sold on her as I was on Scarlett, and I know that is because of her relationship with Silas. I also know that is more to do with the cynical, non romancey part that is me and others will like her. Silas himself, I did like and I loved his friendship with Scarlett. Part of me thinks I didn't like the relationship between Rosie and him a little bit because I did think their relationship was just a little gross because of the 5 year age difference. That might just be me, but I feel like 16 and 21 can be so very different. I don't know, I'm weird.

All in all, this book has 2 (one slightly more) kickass girls, and a pretty solid kickass boy who fight wolves and love each other. Its a great, quick read and a relatively well attempted retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. I enjoyed it enough to make sure I check out the other retellings the other has done. I ...more

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Aug 30, 2012 Leah rated it liked it

Shelves: into-the-forest-2015

I liked Sisters Red for the way it portrayed a fierce loyalty between the March sisters. No matter their differences, they were always sisters. And I absolutely loved the ending.

I also enjoyed this retelling's version of the Wolf as werewolves. It's not a new concept by any means but it gave the story a layer of darkness it needed. There was way too many fight scenes, though. I think a few of those scenes could've been replaced with scenes of the March sisters growing up without their Oma, being ...more

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Aug 30, 2013 Deborah rated it liked it

Shelves: fairy-tale

better than I thought it was gonna be. for whatever reason the young adultness of it didn't bother me. maybe the point of view from both sisters helped? ...more

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