
The Girl in Red
Penguin Publishing Group · Paperback · June 18, 2019
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A familiar fairy-tale frame turns stark and dangerous in this postapocalyptic survival story.
- Themes
- Postapocalyptic survival, Threats from people and predators
- Genres
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian, Fairy Tales & Myths
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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.
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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....
Red in the Ruins
A familiar fairy-tale frame turns stark and dangerous in this postapocalyptic survival story.
Come here for
- A darker, sharper take on Little Red Riding Hood.
- Woods where human threats rival the predators.
Expect
- An edgy struggle to survive after the Crisis.
- A heroine who refuses easy helplessness.
Where it sits
| Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic | 54% |
|---|---|
| Dystopian | 46% |
| Fairy Tales & Myths | 43% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Fantasy Adventure
- Fairy Tales & Myths
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
- Authors
- Christina Henry
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- June 18, 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Postapocalyptic survival · Threats from people and predators
- Reading lane
- Fantasy Adventure