The Girl in Red by Christina Henry (5/5)

The Girl in Red By Christina Henry is one of the best books I have read recently, with me finishing it in under 6 hours on a camping trip. It was quite refreshing since I hadn’t had a book like this in a while, and in the span of this 300-page book I was pleasantly surprised with its gruesome and intriguing story. The premise is a post-apocalyptic world that has been ravaged by a gross disease, which has taken over in the last 3 months and resulted in the death Red’s family. As you journey more into this grim setting, you learn in the form of flashbacks how Red lost her entire family, and how she’s surviving in this awful futuristic world with a few unexpected allies along the way. I’m not usually one to enjoy books in this genre, but having read dystopian novels like Fahrenheit 451 in class, I was almost itching for more books that speculated the scary future of our world. This book hit home with the creeps because of the virus present in the plotline and almost made me think of what could happen if the Covid-19 pandemic ever got to this level of a crisis, with higher-ups like the President even being wiped out by such a nefarious disease. And of course, this book is a twisted spin on the classic Little Red Riding Hood, which is a book genre I have slowly been slipping into like similar premises that The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer holds. (Great series by the way, I totally recommend you give it a try if you like Sci-Fi) It’s true, as I said earlier, that I had finished this book in a single day, something I hadn’t expected and was pleasantly surprised with when I picked up this read a few weeks ago. Even when I had finished this book, I was contemplating reading it again because I had no other books to read and almost might have felt a little rushed by the book's action-packed storyline. Though the characters seem a little two-dimensional in my opinion, I loved this book's plot. The entire book was action-packed and never had me bored, and overall I rate this book a 5 out of 5.