Sisters Red - Jackson Pearce

I just now realized that i haven't been doing this for the books I've reviewed like I said I would.

On to the review!

Okay, so this was one of the better YA genre novels that i have read in a long time. I had seen this in the bookstore awhile back, and thought it looked really interesting (little red riding hood is one of my all time favorite fairy tales). the concept sounded a little strange though so i put it off for a almost a year. and then  Pearce came out with Sweetly which is a retelling of the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale, and i was curious to see how she pulled it off. But we're focusing on Sisters Red in this review.

When Rosie and Scarlett March are attacked by a vicious werewolf when they were children, it scars them for life. Scarlett's eye gets taken and Rosie feels as though she owes her sister her life. So to make up for this, the sisters hunt. Scarlett is consumed by hunting the werewolves (Fenris, as they're called in Pearce's world), and she expects Rosie to hunt with her too, which she does.
The thing about Rosie though, is that she doesn't want to hunt, and she's in love with her childhood friend Silas, who comes from a long line of woodcutters. and that's basically where the story takes off.

There's a lot about this story that I do like, and surprisingly, very little that I didn't. It frankly was hard to choose which sister I liked the best. One minute it was Rosie, the next it was Scarlett, and so on. But in the end I ended up loving both of them. I feel like it was the most interesting to be in Scarlett's mind, how she was so focused on the hunting of Fenris that she doesn't want love or what we would call 'normal.' Pearce did such a good job transitioning between the two that I actually lost track of who was talking once or twice, until the end of the chapter.

I really liked the story arc as well, how she made a pack of ruthless werewolves seemingly right at home in her novel, and how Rosie was able to free herself from their clutches. Rosie's side of the story did get somewhat annoying, getting to be like a lot of the YA romance novels that are out there, but Pearce knew when it was getting dangerously mushy and pack the punch back in at the right time.

This is one of the first stories in a long time that I have been able to thoroughly enjoy from start to finish. Ms. Pearce has done an exceptional job at retelling this classic fairytale into something haunting and gruesome, but very exciting. I could not put it down. This definitely gets 5/5 stars from me, and you need to pick it up right now!

Until next time!