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I enjoyed this book (on audio) which was my #DoubleSpin for the month.

I am a bit disappointed that some things weren‘t exactly “solved” but overall it was a good read.

During a deadly pandemic Red begins the journey to her Grandma‘s house. But there are wolves that want to take advantage of a girl alone in the woods.

‘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....‘

A story about a girl on her own in a postapocalyptic world, just trying to make it to her grandmother‘s without getting killed along the way. Great story.

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#FairytaleReadingChallenge #RedRidingHood
#ReadAway2024 #BooksinBloom #Readathon

Starting next. Getting to this a little late. This was my February pick for the #FairytaleReadingChallenge.
#RedRidingHood

#ReadAway2024

This must have been the best retelling I've ever read. I mostly don't enjoy retellings and tend to steer away from them. I'm so happy that I gave this one a chance. This was a violent, gritty and horrifying journey that kept me on the edge of my seat needing to read faster. Red was a great heroine. She's resourceful, unyielding and so very kick-ass. I urgently need to check what other books this author has written. I'm pleasantly surprised.

This Red Riding Hood is a beast with an axe!

Absolutely loved this book. I need to read more from this author. Fast paced, engaging plot, and excellent character development in under 300 pages.

I hybrid read this and enjoyed it from beginning to end. You can never go wrong with audiobooks narrated by January LaVoy. Excellent voice work!

Read any one-star review on Goodreads and I‘d agree with it. Red was insufferably annoying and unrealistic. I hated her, I hated everything except the brother. I read it so quickly just to get it over with. Not only was the author extremely racist (in an obvious attempt to not be) she also made every man a rapist and every other woman an idiot. (Oh wait there were no other females because Red is the only smart female/person living in the US.) 0/10

Another Fantastic Story by Christina Henry! An apocalyptic twist on the “Little Red Riding Hood” in Norderney times. Red is trying (and fighting) her way through dangerous woods to get to her grandmother since the planet was ravaged by a deadly virus. There is more out there then just people who steal and kill. Red is a smart and a survivor.

“Do you think I don‘t know what kind of men this world has wrought? Every woman knows. And those men existed before everything fell apart.” 4.5/5 #redridinghood #goodreads #TheStoryGraph #june #june2022 #2022 #readingchallenge

Thank you @Catsandbooks for the wonderful #LitsyLovesAnimalsSwap package!! About 2 seconds after I took this picture my cats stole the toys (and one pair of socks) lol. 💜🐈‍⬛🐈🐈‍⬛💚

listened to the audiobook. It's little red riding hood, imagined as a horror story, with a very capable Red, set against a worse pandemic than the one we're experiencing. Getting to the pandemic descriptions my wife and I both said TOO SOON only to learn it was written in 2019.

Red was relatable and prepared but not without flaws (which made her more relatable). My only complaint is too much he/she/red said. In the audiobook it was jarring.

“She wasn‘t under any obligation to be polite to someone who thought she was his next victim.”

Got a nice cosy blanket and a cuppa coffee x

It was entertaining. Something to help pass the time while working :)

Post-pandemic, post-apocalyptic, with a splash of scifi. It started out strong, but kinda lost me when it started with in with the scifi stuff. The ending felt a bit rushed & incomplete. There was lots of potential here, but is seemed to go off path. #FairytaleReadingChallenge @Charityann

I started this book while I was pregnant December of 2019. Then because of how sick my pregnancy made me I put it down until I was almost due and COVID was in full swing. The similarities between the disease in the book and COVID freaked my pregnant ass out so much I had to put it back down until now (almost a full year later) and even then I could only read a chapter at a time lol. Just like all her other books I loved it but it was super freaky!

I started this in 2020, where aome similarities were a bit eerie to current events. I really like how Red is written. She is definitely paranoid and a bit of a dooms day prepper, but she is also the survivir, the realist.
My only qualm is that icwish the book were longer. There are some aspects that i feel could have been built up more for a bigger impact. But this is a good quick dystopian-pandemic read.

Just started this one. The first chapter is setting the scene of a world taken over by a pandemic that is airborne ..... hmm wonder if I want to read this one right now 🤔. @ShelleyBooksie

Thank you! Thank you ! Thank you! @ShelleyBooksie I LOVE it all! Everything is so me! You know me well and spoiled me! I can‘t wait to dig into those 📚 books!!! All the other stuff is perfect! The notebook , the bookmarks , the nail art !!! YASSSS! You are the best! ❤️U! #happilyeverafterswap.

Thanks for organizing @Chrissyreadit

Before I post what was inside , here is the beautiful presentation of my #happilyeverafterswap from @ShelleyBooksie . My niece was here and helped me open it and loved all the sparkle.

@Chrissyreadit

#thetwelfecoloursofdecember
Cranberry Red

Another one from my tbr shelf❤

#thegirlinred #christinahenry #retelling #countdowntochristmas #mostwonderfultime @StayCurious @Clwojick
#ReadNosedReindeer #wintergames #wintergames2020

A post-apocalyptic re-telling of the little red ridden hood fairytale. Started out as the perfect pandemic horror story, a world turned upside down, turned weird.

Low key kind of hated the man character. A know it all arrogant person who is self aware of her flaws but still feels the need to rehash them all the time. Either be flawed or not, trying to be both is jarring.

Week 4 points! Thank you @StayCurious and @Clwojick for hosting #scarathlon2020 it was so much fun!!! And I want to thank @4thhouseontheleft for hosting #screamathon and @aperfectmjk for hosting another #littenlisten I had so much fun this month!!! #TeamHarkness

A dark & gory retelling of Red Ridding Hood. Red will try to survive the pandemic crisis and get to her grandmother. Many things happened in that journey. Story narrated in 2 time lines. I didn't expect this would be a post-apocalyptic novel about a pandemic situation?It kept me on the edge but one of the reason people died was so "unreal" to me and the end was ok. 3.75⭐️ #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks #Screamathon @4thhouseontheleft ?

Another book finished for #Scarathlon #TeamHarkness @StayCurious #ReadYourWay Readathon @TheSpineView 70 points plus 1 point for posting🤗

Deciding what to read next for the #Scarathlon2020 & #TeamHarkness.

To the left: not right now.
To the right: to-go-through.
TOP right (tagged): currently winning!

I love the process of choosing a new book. 💕📚

I was not expecting this to be so close to the current situation. A pandemic has swept the globe and decimated the population and it all starts with a cough... Red is going cross country, dodging the army, would-be kidnappers and general crazies to get to her granma's cabin in the woods. With lots of twists and turns on the way this is either the perfect book for the current world or the worst thing to read. 4.5/5 Stars

So I have a tendency not to reading the blurb when picking books from from my library audio books, especially when I'm familar with the author.
Wow I was not ready for this and how close to what is currently happening in the world today. I am so glad I'm not in a hot spot.

Bk1 of my #BuzzWordBookathon is finished. Well. That went to crazy town quick. Though honestly, I should‘ve expected it after reading her first 3 books. Not quite as bat shit crazy as the Alice series but it‘s up there. When a pandemic called “the Cough” starts to take hold, Red tries to get her family to leave their home & hike to her grandmas cabin. But circumstances leave her alone & trying to dodge militia, government soldiers & the infected.

“Her belief came from the fact that she could read and think and knew the departments that address pandemics were underfunded and unprepared for the scope of the problem.”

Well. That got real quick. Had no idea this would turn out to be about the world after a pandemic called “the Cough” decimates the worlds population. Little bit too close to home right now! #BuzzWordBookathon #colours #propheticfiction

Finally starting my #BuzzWordBookathon tonight, my buzzword is #colours I had such a good reading month but the past week has been awful. I‘ve been getting out to the garden every day which is terrific but the other side to that is I‘m in such agony by sundown, not to mention exhausted, it‘s been difficult to even choose a book let alone read it. Hopefully this #readathon will motivate me. If I can stay awake that is.🥱 Lets do this!🤘

"Lots of people thought that because she was a woman with a prosthetic leg it would be easy to take advantage of her--that she would be slow or incapable. Lots of people found out they were wrong."

Highly recommend this (scarily timely) read! Red Riding Hood is off to Grandmother's house in this dystopian novel. There's been a Crisis. The 'Cough' is killing hundreds of people. The government is quarantining people in camps. Red must battle coyotes (other people turned bad), wolves (kidnapping militia), snakes (mutated tape worms) to make it safely. Will she make it? She a reader, a planner, a worrier, and an ass kicker! ♥️👓

"Her belief came from the fact that she could read and think and knew that the departments that address pandemics were underfunded and unprepared for the scope of the problem."

Well this is a little close to home right now.

Going to start this book next.

Trying to catch up on my book club book, we are having an online meeting Friday. It‘s dystopian, and involves a pandemic that is called the “cough”. It‘s hitting a little too close to home. 😱 #bookswithmycalico

Am I the last person to realize that this is a #quarantine read? I just started but it is so good so far.

Clever retelling of red riding hood. I was a bit worried when I was a chapter away from the end and it didn‘t feel like the story was going to finish in time. It came together better than expected but still left a few unanswered questions.

Yesterday‘s library/book shop haul. Love the cute bag the book shop used!
Looking forward to digging into these next week. 😍

I liked this more than I thought I was going to when I first started it. In the beginning I felt like it was a bit too similar to other stories with ideas like this like the recent move A Quiet Place or the book Station Eleven. But, as it got more into it, the story developed and it was pretty scary and really blended the Red Riding Hood retelling well with the horror story. Definitely a great ending and a creepy story.

Well shit, I was up until 3:30 finishing this and it has made my morning a bit of a mess - WORTH IT. This was Christina Henry at her finest. A post-apocalyptic retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, Red has actually paid attention to pop culture and knows what to do when the Crisis comes, but that doesn‘t mean bad things don‘t happen. Smart, fast paced and original, I loved every second. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Confession: when the husband falls asleep on the couch and I‘m reading a good book, I leave him out there so I can stay up in bed without anyone grumbling about lights and getting a good night‘s sleep. And this is a goood book. Sorry, darling.

Day 2 #24B4Monday #Readathon

I managed to fit in about two and a half hours of reading time yesterday. Almost finished The Girl in Red.

Day 1 of #24B4Monday #Readathon

Only got a couple hours of reading done yesterday. I made it a little past the halfway point in my current read.

I‘m finally able to relax and get started on reading. I‘m currently working on The Girl in Red.

#24B4Monday #Readathon

"'Cordelia,' Mama said for the third time, and three times for anything makes it a spell, a curse, a whisper of magic that can't be undone."

My husband is killing it with the books he got me for Christmas. This one might have me reading all night.

First #library haul of 2020 and I‘m stooooked.

Christmas Book Hurl 🥰🥰

I will start with the warning that this book is not for the faint of heart; but anyone who has read any of Christina Henry‘s remixed fairytales would likely start the same way. This is the gritty reality, even with the fairytale twist, and if you are looking for a brightly lit path to Grandma‘s house, then give this book a miss. But if you wonder what happens down those roads less travelled, then this is a book for you.