Friday, June 25, 2010

Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce

Scarlett and Rosie March live in our world, but they know something we do not know: Fenris are real and very very dangerous. What are Fenris? They are werewolves, the Big Bad Wolf, the men who turn into wolves and chase pretty young women, only to kill them. And because Scarlett and Rosie know this, they know they are the only ones who can battle the Fenris and make the world a little more normal for the rest of us.

Their tiny Georgia town of Ellison has the occasional Fenris, but when more and more show up, Scarlett and Rosie and Silas (one of the Woodsman's sons, and Scarlett's hunting partner) determine they need to move to Atlanta to perhaps help prevent the Potential from being turned.

Silas, who has left Ellison (and Scarlett & hunting), tells Rosie there is more than hunting in the world, there is more to life and shows her some of it while they are in Atlanta. Scarlett becomes ever more frustrated because she can't gain the attention of the Fenris--they are attracted to young, pretty girls, and Scarlett--covered in scars & missing an eye from an early Fenris attack--is not what they're looking for. But Rosie is.

Rosie becomes more the bait than the hunter and only when she is taken and held as bait by the Fenris to lure the Potential does the story really pick up the pace. Scarlett & Silas become desperate to rescue Rosie, and make a risky plan to save her.

Jackson Pearce's Sisters Red is an interesting and unexpected retelling of Little Red Riding Hood (both Scarlett & Rosie hunt with red cloaks); it moves at a decent pace, but doesn't entirely draw you in. There's a bit of a love story, a bit of angry, and a whole lot more fighting than you would originally think. Pearce makes the fights real (people get hurt) without being too gory and the love story is not too romantic for those who aren't into that (love is a motivation more than much else).

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