A review by sarahd7276
Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold

3.0

This is a hard book to rate. It’s a kind of retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. On one hand, there’s a surly kind of women’s empowerment theme- women are hunters who kill werewolves that attack and murder women. On the other hand, the wolves are abusive men. Except, they’ve changed into werewolves. So, the women killing werewolves are actually women killing men. And that’s hard to get behind.

Bisou’s mother was killed by a werewolf when she’s 4 and goes to live with her grandmother. She discovers her sleeve face to face with a werewolf and kills it before it kills her. There’s a family’s secret legacy and unfinished business.