For the Wolf

Since the first page, I have not been able to stop thinking about Whitten’s gorgeously immersive world.

With a main character named Red and something about a wolf, you may think that this is just another Little Red Riding Hood rewriting…but it is so much more. A magical murderous forest, prophesies, blood pacts, destiny, love—all the things I already knew I loved, but then add even more—haunted trees, a twisting sickness caused by shadow, and two sisters fighting to determine their own fate.

This last aspect lends a specialness to Whitten’s novel and reminds me of my favorite novels growing… show more.

Red has spent her childhood knowing that she was going to be sacrificed to the Wolf of the Wood.

It’s a fate she hasn’t quite accepted, but every thing she has done to fight it has faile.d She doesn’t want to be another girl killed by the forest, or the wolf. But things aren’t exactly what she expected when she finally meets the wolf.

And now, instead of a sacrifice to the woods ravenous appetite Red is prepared to fight, for herself and her wolf. She didn’t want to be the victim of her own story, so she changed the… show more.