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A review by yanners
The Girl in Red by Christina Henry
1.0
If I came out of this knowing anything, it’s that our eccentric little sweetheart Red is an axe-wielding maniac with a paranoid personality disorder. She’s marketed as some savage killer/badass know-it-all but the only vibes I’m getting from this is hyperinflated ego stemming from the fact that she thinks watching the Walking Dead means she’s naturally more adept at survivor than others.
The context was really weird because it was some hybrid of Alien and the Walking Dead and there were a butt ton of fillers at the front which I didn’t really see the point of. It would’ve definitely been better if Red could’ve at least met with more disaster because her life is as easy as:
1. Meeting people who help her bathe and everything
2. Meeting soldiers who aren’t irritated by her overconfidence and actually play along
3. Meeting other humans but killing them in cold blood even though she’s slight and should’ve be struggling to even lift that axe
The whole ‘I’m trekking across the country to get to Grandmother’s house’ is really discordant and out of place and it seemed as though the last paragraph was just rushing to end it there and then so that it had at least some form of semblance of the original Red Riding Hood.
I’m not trying to disparage this story but it’s just that RRH had a lot of potential as a retelling and this just didn’t do it justice for me :(( 1.5 stars
The context was really weird because it was some hybrid of Alien and the Walking Dead and there were a butt ton of fillers at the front which I didn’t really see the point of. It would’ve definitely been better if Red could’ve at least met with more disaster because her life is as easy as:
1. Meeting people who help her bathe and everything
2. Meeting soldiers who aren’t irritated by her overconfidence and actually play along
3. Meeting other humans but killing them in cold blood even though she’s slight and should’ve be struggling to even lift that axe
The whole ‘I’m trekking across the country to get to Grandmother’s house’ is really discordant and out of place and it seemed as though the last paragraph was just rushing to end it there and then so that it had at least some form of semblance of the original Red Riding Hood.
I’m not trying to disparage this story but it’s just that RRH had a lot of potential as a retelling and this just didn’t do it justice for me :(( 1.5 stars