The pacing was spot-on for the most part, but there was one event that seemed to drag on for too long.

Albeit rather subtle, certain parts of the story reminded me of some of my favorite movies, including Twilight and The Village, which was an added plus. Some interesting twists take the story in new directions, making it impossible to predict. The story is unique and inventive being that it’s nothing like the original Little Red Riding Hood but still follows along with connections to the woods, wolves, grandmother, and of course: the red cloak. If I didn’t have other things to do, this probably could've been finished in half of a day. The book is written well, and it’s a quick read. So she was far more familiar than I was with the dangers and with ways to avoid them. She’d grown up in my grandmother’s cabin, though back then before the forest had encroached so boldly upon Oakvale, it was just inside the dark wood.

I’d never been alone in the dark wood before, and I felt my mother’s absence like the loss of a limb. On a trip to her grandmother’s cabin through the dark wood, she’s troubled with a surprise encounter, and now must grasp and accept her newfound responsibilities as a guardian and protector of Oakvale. Her father’s death still haunts her, and she has much to learn about her family history. Ages 14 up.Soon to be sixteen years old, Adele wants nothing more than to settle down with the boy of her dreams and live in peace with her family in the village of Oakvale. Though the tempo slows when Adele's identity is tested by threats to the village, the character's strong voice and presence resonate throughout. Night Shyamalan films, Vincent's (Strange New World) swift pacing builds palpable tension in the first two-thirds of the novel. Blending fairy tale elements with the atmospheric horror of M. And as Adele considers both Grainger and Max, she questions her decision to shelter a boy she found abandoned in the woods. Adele's guardian training becomes complicated when she discovers her arranged marriage to carpenter Maxime Bertrand, son of a redwulf.

Adele hopes to marry her sweetheart, Grainger, but her first solo trip to her grandmother's house ends with the teen killing a whitewulf a werewolf that eats human flesh and learning of her matrilineal legacy: to protect a village as a redwulf. With only watchmen and a ring of torches to protect them, the villagers sneer at Adele and her baker mother, 'redheaded witches' who can enter the woods to visit Adele's grandmother each full moon. In this refreshing 'Little Red Riding Hood' retelling, the woods surrounding the isolated village of Oakvale teem with monsters and voices of the long dead, including 16-year-old Adele Duval's father.

Red wolf by rachel vincent