Jude-broken, rebuilt, fueled by anger and a sense of powerlessness-has never recovered from watching her adoptive Faerie father murder her parents. Vincent’s contemplation and dissection of monstrosity elevates this retelling above a crowded field but dilutes its insights with regrettably generic tropes.Ī dark and intriguing fairy-tale adaptation.īlack is back with another dark tale of Faerie, this one set in Faerie and launching a new trilogy. Pivoting from her contemporary thrillers, Vincent offers a richly detailed, old-fashioned fantasy with a dash of horror set in a pre-industrial Francophone European countryside populated by White characters. The beasts in the woods-often heard rather than seen, per the best horror conventions-may eat people, but faced with hard decisions and hard-line villagers, Adele discovers that humans can be equally dangerous, particularly to independent and unconventional women.

Tasked with protecting villagers and travelers against the other monsters of the dark wood, Adele relishes her new powers but struggles with her new responsibilities and romantic prospects. To her dismay, Adele also learns that she’s long been betrothed to Maxime Bernard, a handsome carpenter from Ashborne who is privy to her secret superpowers. However, on a trip to see her Gran in the wood, Adele unexpectedly transforms into a redwulf and learns she is now a lycanthropic guardian like her mother and grandmother. She hopes to wed and raise children with Grainger Colbert, spend time with her sister and mother, and overcome rumors of the Duval family curse. A red-cloaked girl encounters (were)wolves.īorn and raised in Oakvale, a small town surrounded by a beast-riddled and ever encroaching dark wood, 16-year-old Adele Duval enjoys her provincial life. I would say there more more entertining reads than this book but you may want to read it if you want somthing short and fast paced the narrator was nice and I liked her performance. and the ending was so unsatisfying and didn't leave on a good note. Adele was annoying and flaky as hell and her decisions keeps getting worse as the story goes on.

but she discovers that she is from a line of Red Wolves and they are tasked to protect the village from the white wolves and her life changes forever it was a nice change of pace for me but I can't say I was impressed by it. she is 16 and wants to marry her shildhood friend. I didn't have high expectations for this book and it definately was within my expections no more or less The story os pretty straight forward about a village called Oakville where its surrounded by a dark forest filled with white warewolves who eats and infects the people of the village where Adele out main character lives. I don't think you are missing out on much

Red wolf by rachel vincent