Title: The Girl In Red

• Author: Christina Henry 
• Genre:  Fantasy Fiction/Dystopian
• Publication Date: O6/18/2019

It’s not safe for anyone alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that serve as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. She is just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that doesn’t look anything like the one she grew up in, the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago.

There are worse threats in the woods than the things that stalk their prey at night. Sometimes there are men. Men with dark desires, weak wills, and evil intents. Men in uniform with classified information, deadly secrets, and unforgiving orders. And sometimes, just sometimes, there’s something worse than all the horrible people and vicious beasts combined.

Red doesn’t think of herself as a killer, but she isn’t about to let herself get eaten up just because she is a woman alone in the woods…

* side note: Synopsis was taken from an ARC received before publication.

🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺 Five Wolves.

I seriously could have read this all in one day if adulting hadn’t interrupted my life for a week.

I didn’t even know I LIKED post-apocalyptic/dystopian books, but this one was SO good! The main character is the right kind of female badass. No cheesy, sexualized ridiculousness with this one. She’s smart. SUPER smart. She knows her shit. She’s also not taking anybody’s shit. That’s not to say that she’s heartless, though.

The thing I loved the most about this story was the flashback chapters of life before the event & leading up to where she is now. Her memories are heartbreaking, she oftentimes forces them out of her head in order to move on, and it’s such a thing we do out of necessity, it really got to me.

This is the first novel I’ve read by Christina Henry, I’m definitely going to be reading her other works now!!

I received this copy early from the publisher and Goodreads as a win, however that in no way influenced my opinion. This book kicked ass. Especially since I was a snob who always said I would never read dystopian sci-fi. 🤭

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