{"id":15,"date":"2013-03-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2013-06-04T13:37:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T18:37:19","slug":"sisters-red-by-jackson-pearce-fiction-werewolf-hunting-sisters-long-for-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Sisters Red, by Jackson Pearce (fiction) – werewolf-hunting sisters long for love"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Remote town or crowded city<\/a>,
\nmore “missing” young women reported,
\ntime to hunt down the werewolves<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The first in Pearce’s Fairytale Retellings, Sisters Red<\/i>\u00a0 takes the Little Red Riding Hood tale several steps into the present-day with chilling effectiveness.<\/p>\n

The Atlanta-based author keeps her Retellings series firmly rooted in today’s South with Sweetly<\/i><\/a> (Hansel and Gretel…and Fenris) and Fathomless<\/i><\/a> (the Little Mermaid…and Fenris). Click the title links to go to my no-spoiler recommendations.<\/p>\n

Which cover art do you prefer – the new paperback release with the hatchet or the original hardback and paperback art with the two girls’ faces and those red wolfeyes?
\n**kmm
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\nBook info<\/b>: Sisters Red (Fairytale Retellings #1) \/ Jackson Pearce. LB Teen, 2010 hardback, 2011 paperback. [author’s website<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] [book trailer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

My Recommendation<\/b>:\u00a0 Girls are disappearing \u2013 time for Rosie and Scarlett to take up their hatchets, don their red cloaks, and hunt down the werewolves again. Perhaps the teen sisters can kill enough of these Fenris before their power becomes too strong\u2026<\/p>\n

Closer than twins, Scarlett and Rosie feel like they are one heart divided between two people and that they have a mission to protect people from the Fenris who slaughtered their grandmother, clawed out Scarlett\u2019s right eye, left the March sisters selling off Oma\u2019s things to stay afloat \u2013 hunting killer werewolves near and far leaves no time for a regular job. At least Silas is back from California, back to being their nearest neighbor out in the Georgia countryside, even if he didn\u2019t take the traditional woodsman\u2019s path like the rest of his family.<\/p>\n

Attacks on young women during the Apple Time Festival reveal that outside clans of Fenris are converging on their area, and the sisters\u2019 scan of the news tells them that Atlanta is getting hit hard. It\u2019s Silas who suggests that they temporarily move to the city to deal with the werewolf outbreak, the three of them hunting together again to keep unwitting victims safe.<\/p>\n

Now the trio has a whole new landscape to learn, trying to remain unseen as they stalk the leering men whose skin bursts forth into full fur when their prey has no more way to escape, the two girls donning mysterious red capes to entice the Fenris away from others and into the death trap of their hatchets and knives.<\/p>\n

Silas insists that Rosie do something \u2013 just one thing \u2013 that\u2019s not Fenris-related so she can keep her mind and soul together, so she tries an origami class. In the calm classroom, Rosie wonders if she\u2019ll fight the Fenris forever, if she could have a future with Silas.<\/p>\n

What is luring the other Fenris into territory not their own?
\nCan the three young people stop them?
\nIs there more to life than fighting away this darkness?<\/p>\n

Told in alternating chapters by Rosie and Scarlett, Sisters Red<\/i> brings an old fairytale into the here and now as the author\u2019s home city is plagued by werewolves.\u00a0 (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>) Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remote town or crowded city, more “missing” young women reported, time to hunt down the werewolves. The first in Pearce’s Fairytale Retellings, Sisters Red\u00a0 takes the Little Red Riding Hood tale several steps into the present-day with chilling effectiveness. The Atlanta-based author keeps her Retellings series firmly rooted in today’s South with Sweetly (Hansel and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[69,52,19,30,51,41],"tags":[22,7,20,5,37,16,18,34,39,15,21,57,60,8],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-fairy-tales","category-fiction","category-legends","category-mystery","category-paranormal","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-horror","tag-love","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-tbr2012","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}