Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

For those of you who may not know, the Lunar Chronicles are futuristic, sci-fi, retellings of fairy tales. The first book Cinder is the retelling of Cinderella, and the second book, Scarlet, is a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, while still intertwining with the initial story which was introduced in the first book.

THE STORY:
Without giving too much away and getting spoiler-y in this review, I can honestly say that I loved the story of this book. I didn't feel that it was quite as good as Cinder, but I think that most of the bits I didn't like about this book were more due to characters than to plot and story. I love that we got to see from basically every character's point of view, and I really love the turn that the story took. This was beautiful set up for the rest of the series.

THE CHARACTERS:
We had three new main characters introduced in this novel, Scarlet, Wolf, and Thorne, and man do I adore all three of them. I did find that my love wavered sometimes with Scarlet, just because of little things she would say or do that sometimes got on my nerves, but over all I still enjoyed her as a character. I found Wolf to be adorable, and while things got a little confusing with him over the course of the book, I still ended up adoring him in the end. As for Thorne, well... I just really, really, really love Thorne. He is so cheeky and I just love the relationship that he has with Cinder. I think that he will definitely make the rest of their adventures interesting and entertaining.

MY THOUGHTS:
I am still in love with this series, and I can't wait to read Cress. This book was so cool, and such an interesting way to bring the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale into a science-fiction world, and still have it seem like it belonged there. I can't wait to see how all of these characters will interact in the next half of this series. I think it is safe to say that this is becoming one of my favorite series of all time.

STAR RATING: ★★★★ 1/2