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Red: The Untold Story
Angela M Hudson, author
Children/Young Adult; General Fiction (including literary and historical); (Market)
Once every twenty years, pack alpha Luther takes a new wife. On the day of Selection, Red is chosen. Just as her family always planned. Just as she always planned. Until she met Alex Plain.
Alex took Red to worlds she never imagined, where the ordinary is seen as magical, and the upright is abstract. With the help of this new friendship, Red begins to see a future for herself outside of the pack. But, unfortunately, Alex Plain came along too late.
Red is obligated to marry Luther now, and taken to live in the mysterious Ravenswood Mansion, where truth lies and the walls have eyes. What Red learns there about her alpha will ignite some burning questions—ones that, when answered, could undo the entire order of the pack:
What happened to all the children born there? Why hasn’t this mansion left the seventeenth century? And where are all his previous wives?
Plot/Idea: 7 out of 10
Originality: 7 out of 10
Prose: 7 out of 10
Character/Execution: 5 out of 10
Overall: 6.50 out of 10
Assessment:
In this sprawling book told from the point of view of a half-human/half werewolf, the story and characters get lost in the confusing plot -- the author is trying to do too many things at once -- and the imitation 19th-century prose. The main themes of the book are loss, grief, and depression, but they are overlaid with a lot of unnecessary diversions and underdeveloped characters.
Date Submitted: June 15, 2016
