#sisters red

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I read this book called Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce, and Scarlett and Rosie's dynamic reminded me SO much of Sam and Dean. I loved it, and it's probably how I managed to read it all in one sitting.

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Sisters Red book cover art by  strawberryluna

Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce

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Book Blog: Sisters’ Red by Jackson Pearce

This took me less than 10 days to read. It was a fairly simple concept and it was fun. However, I don’t think I’m the target audience anymore.

PLOT: Two sisters Scarlett and Rosie have lived in Ellison, Georgia all their lives. Ever since a Fernis (werewolf) attacked them as little kids Scarlett has to lived with permanent scars and an eyepatch to cover her missing eye; Rosie has to run their lonely home and make sure Scarlett stays sane. One day when their childhood friend Silas comes back from California things get really heated. A wounded Fernis tells them that on the full moon a new Potential shall be transformed in Atlanta. The group only has a couple months to find the potential, stop the transformation, and maybe; just maybe; discover their inner selves.

PROS: The author borrows heavily from the classic Little Red Riding Hood. From the sister’s grandma Oma March being of German descent, the girls wear red cloaks while hunting. they use axes and knives to destroy the Fernis, Silas comes from a longline of huntsmen that were trained to kill Fernis. However, the author does add a modern twist to the story to make it her own action packed adventure. I also love that it takes place in Georgia. Again, just like Vermont there aren’t too many stories that take place in this particular state. I want to think the author got Atlanta right in that behind all the glitz and glamor there s seedy underbelly the lurking with danger.

The characters themselves are pretty decent. Scarlett had to harden heart after the age of seven. She wears her scars proudly as a badge of honor. However just like most teenagers she is also self conscious of how she appears towards others. She’s cold to others unless it’s her sister or Silas and even then when Scarlett doesn’t get her way she shuts them out so she can calm down. 

Rosie is the exact opposite of her sister. She’s bubbly and cheerful, she knows the world is cruel and yet she doesn’t want her tragic backstory to define herself. Rosie also want more in life than just hunting. While they’re in Atlanta she signs up for classes at an Atlanta local rec center. She feels like she’s betraying her sister but at the same she’s enjoying herself and realizes that maybe she doesn’t want just one life  purpose.

Silas; while not a main character; does play a big enough role in the story. He’s kind but stern with Scarlett. He has to remind her that he has his own life to live and he’ll choose how to do so. He also was the one to influence Rosie in taking chances to do other things. The two form a relationship and no matter how I look at it, it would’ve been a lose-lose scenario. If they had told Scarlett she would’ve been mad. But they didn’t tell her, she found out on her own and she still got mad. So what else could they have done?

CONS: I have a minor problem with how the climax ending. Throughout the story there were some huge stakes. Stakes that could been life or death. And yet it felt like the author threw it all away because “the full moon phase ended ten minutes ago, so we just missed it! You don’t have to die tonight yaay!” When that happened it make me feel like all that momentum was for nothing.

Again, I don’t think I’m the target audience for this anymore. Maybe that’s why I was able to read this so quickly and be a bit more critical about it.

I enjoyed it well enough. I think it definitely makes for a great night of reading. It’s simple, crazy, and fairly exciting so I have to rate it a 6/10.

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When I was trying to bring all #kibf books back in 2019, I lost two whole bags of books that I had bought and paid for. This book was in one of those bags. Losing a hardcover as pretty hit me hard. Even though I went back the next day and got more books, I didn't get over the loss. So, finding a single piece at the #kubf21 two years later meant I wasn't letting it out of my sight until I'd brought it home to #midureads and here, it's gonna stay 😍

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Recsmas 2019 - December 10 - A book with awesome guys Fairy Tale Retellings series by Jackson Pearce 

I loved getting to meet all the different guys from the Reynolds family in these books. It was such a cool way to do a family saga without having to focus solely on one family. The romances are all really lovely too, especially the one in Cold Spell. An awesome world with amazing characters and wonderful interpretations of some of the classic fairy tales. 

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Tell me a story!  Check out these great fairy tale retellngs

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Danielle Babbles About Books - Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce

Rating: 3/5 stars

Review: In this story Little Red Riding Hood is the hunter, not the hunted. I’m honestly not sure how to feel about this book. I liked the theme of sisterhood and how Scarlett and Rosie had to work out their differences and solve some of their own personal problems. I was interested in the insertion of werewolves into real world Georgia of all places. I’m still not sure how to feel about the werewolves being the fantasy version of sexual predators, specifically targeting young women - and more specifically young women who dress and present themselves “a certain way” because like... girls defending girls and neither Rosie nor Scarlett are particularly judgmental of other women though Scarlett has her struggles. But on the other hand real life sexual predators and other violent men will target women for any number of reason, are often either related to or close to their victims via friendship, school, etc so the fact that the “fenris” in this story only target young women and prefer those who are conventionally attractive and who perform femininity and misogynistic stereotypes (ex making themselves sexually available, wearing a lot of perfume, etc) feels kind of off. I still thought the fantasy element of the fenris, the plot with the Potential (I called that twist from the beginning of the book by the way), and the relationship of the sisters were still pretty compelling.

Favorite Quote: “Here I am, saving your lives, bitten and scarred and wounded for you, and you don't even know it.”  

Mood Music: Just a Girl - No Doubt, Monster - Imagine Dragons, Howl - Florence + the Machine

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✨ Books I read in 2018 ✨ ⏩ Sisters Red by Jackson Pierce