Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

I also expected the novel to be somewhat bland, since most movies turned books aren’t written very well, and for the movie to be much better.

Here were my expectations: As the script for the movie was completed first, I expected that the movie and novel would be identical, with a little more detail in the book. According to Catherine Hardwicke’s introduction in the book, “the characters and their backstories were too complex to fit into the film, so wanted to help create a novel to fully explore the tangled web of emotions in the village of Daggorhorn.” Hence, without viewing the movie, it is hard to tell whether the novel really served its purpose. This was a hard review to write because the movie and book go hand in hand, and one cannot write an unbiased book review without having viewed the movie, since the novel was written as its companion. Who will save her? Or can Valeria save herself? In this dangerous, riveting new vision of a classic fairy tale, the happy ending may be hard to find.” Her father is the town drunk, her mother wants to control her, and the other girls-they quickly turn her in as a witch. With a marriage being forced upon her and a true love asking her to run away, Valerie has no one to turn to. Valeria is not a “good girl.” When the local were-wolf singles her out, Valerie must make an impossible choice. In a time when villages are so small that everyone knows everyone else, one girl struggles to find her own was. It clangs a f ourth time… the killer was the Wolf. Synopsis from the dust jacket: “The bell tolls one, two, three times in the village-someone has been murdered.

Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright