The Girl in Red

Great book, it creates an very oppressive and immersive feeling while reading it. Super thrilling and precise writingwith cool characters. Despite some basics, this story doesn't has much in common with the book-inspiring fairy tale. Ending seems a bit too aprubt for, i guess there would have been more potential too spin it a bit further. But maybe best put an great work to an end when the peak is reached ? 4.5 Stars, round it up to 5 as i really struggled to stop reading on this one. Will buy more auf Christina Henry for sure!

"The Girl in Red" ist neben der Alice-Reihe wahrscheinlich das beste Buch von Henry. Es hat weniger Horror-Elemente als die Bücher über Alice, dafür ist die Atmosphäre aber nicht weniger bedrohlich. Mit dem Märchen von Rotkäppchen hat es nur am Rande zu tun, die Handlung orientiert sich zumindest kaum daran. Absolut zu empfehlen und ein guter Einstieg in Henry's Bücher. Bonus: LGBTQI+ inklusiv!

Im Vergleich zu anderen von mir gelesenen Büchern der Autorin (Die Alice Reihe sowie der Geisterbaum) eher schwächer. Meiner Meinung nach erinnert sehr wenig an Rotkäppchen und auch die Virus und spätere Sc-Fi ähnliche Bedrohung haben für mich auch kein abgeschlossenes Ende, was auf das gesamte Buch zu trifft, da es sehr plötzlich sehr rasant zu Ende geführt wird bleibt man eher verwirrt zurück. Vor allem der eingebaute Zeitsprung am Ende lässt den Leser eher ohne die eigentliche Reise von Rotkäppchen durch den Wald zurück. Stattdessen lernt man eine apokalyptische Welt kennen ohne die apokalyptischen Element vollends präsentiert zu bekommen. Wenn das Buch runtergesetzt ist jedoch dennoch eine gute kleine etwas spannendere Lesemöglichkeit. Insgesamt jedoch nicht so empfehlenswert wie die Alice im Wunderland Adaption.

A good adaptation with many creepily accurate situations that you know as a pandemic survivor. It's very Interesting how the author was able to imitate the psychological consequences (! BEFORE Corona and the current global situatoins!!) Very scary. She once again did a wonderful job of portraying the heroic main character. However, I felt that the fantasy-sci-fi elements came into focus relatively late... I looked out for parallels and was a bit disappointed at times, since not much of the fairy tale flowed into them compared to her previous stories. I didn't like the idea of ​​a wolf either. Much too short, since there were no signs of it until 3/4th of the book. Which I find very unfortunate. Nevertheless, it is good reading: exciting, profound and stirring.

Once again, Christina Henry has taken a beloved classic story and put her own spin on it. A dark and twisted spin... When the pandemic first hit, hardly anyone took it seriously. But Red knew that it was only a matter of time until chaos would ensue and started to prepare herself for the worst. When people start dropping like flies and the military begins to put the healthy ones in quarantine camps, she sets out to her grandmother's house in the woods, 300 miles away. Will she make it there without catching the virus and/or getting picked up by the military? Let me start off by saying that it probably isn't the best idea to read a book about a pandemic during an actual pandemic. Even though, the situation in this novel is significantly more dire than the one we find ourselves in right now, it doesn't really help in keeping your mind off the way things are. It also touches on topics like racism and gun violence, so it is relevant in more ways than just the obvious one. I like that Red is, although handicapped, extremely self-sufficient, tough and doesn't let anybody tell her what she can and cannot do - a worthy heroine through and through. "The Girl in Red" is a truly dark story and at times rather graphic, so I don't recommend it to the faint-hearted. If you like books of the gruesome variety, I am sure you'll enjoy it, though.