The Girl in Red

Christina Henry

Jun 2019 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a postapocalyptic take on the perennial classic "Little Red Riding Hood"...about a woman who isn't as defenseless as she seems.

It's not safe for anyone  alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that serve as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. She is just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that doesn't look anything like the one she grew up in, the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago.

There are worse threats in the woods than the things that stalk their prey at night. Sometimes, there are men. Men with dark desires, weak wills, and evil intents. Men in uniform with classified information, deadly secrets, and unforgiving orders. And sometimes, just sometimes, there's something worse than all of the horrible people and vicious beasts combined.

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....

Ratings and reviews

A book that has the voice and pace of Young Adult dystopian fiction, with vocabulary that draws from Shakespeare and A.A. Milne simultaneously and somehow effortlessly, The Girl in Red is a thoroughly entertaining read. There is whimsy in the language that makes an undeniably violent storyline almost charming. I was surprised by the ending, not because of a plot twist, but simply because it was so abrupt as to make it seem hurried, as if the author could not think of an elegant way out of the project, so minus one star for lack of a satisfying conclusion.

Very well written story. Great book

I enjoyed it.

About the author

Christina Henry is the author of Alice, Red Queen, Lost Boy, The Mermaid, and the national bestselling Black Wings series, featuring Agent of Death Madeline Black and her popcorn-loving gargoyle, Beezle.