I do need to say this, there were a few things that bugged me slightly. Red eventually meets up with her friends from childhood, rather toddler years, Ash and Dote (who is adorable by the way, I would hug her and pet her on the head if I could). On the way she runs into another, a boy "Wolf Boy" as she decides to call him, who helps her find her way to her grandmothers and warns her not to stray off the path. One day she gets a letter from her Grandmother who she didn't know existed telling Red to come to her house in the Wayward Woods. We have Red (aged 14 soon to be 15), an orphan who knows nothing about herself, where she came from, she doesn't even know what her last name is. This could have went two ways, a flop because you have to be careful when working with something that is based on the fairytale or anything that's already in the public mind. What I thought this was going to be and what I read where two different things, and well that's not a bad thing. When you read the title and blurb you get an image in your head of what you think the tale is going to be about, now take that idea and remove it from your head. When I first settled down to read this book, Little Red Riding Hood by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, popped into my head. You're everything a big bad wolf could want.
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