Review: Sisters Red

Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
(Fairytale Retellings, #1)

Genre: Ya, Retellings, Urban Fantasy
Creatures: Fenris
First Published: 2010
Rating: 4/5
Find It: Goodreads

Scarlett March lives to hunt the Fenris--the werewolves that took her eye when she was defending her sister Rosie from a brutal attack. Armed with a razor-sharp hatchet and blood-red cloak, Scarlett is an expert at luring and slaying the wolves. She's determined to protect other young girls from a grisly death, and her raging heart will not rest until every single wolf is dead.
Rosie March once felt her bond with her sister was unbreakable. Owing Scarlett her life, Rosie hunts ferociously alongside her. But even as more girls' bodies pile up in the city and the Fenris seem to be gaining power, Rosie dreams of a life beyond the wolves. She finds herself drawn to Silas, a young woodsman who is deadly with an ax and Scarlett's only friend--but does loving him mean betraying her sister and all that they've worked for?

Sisters Red is the first installment in the Fairytale Retellings series: starting from the Red Riding Hood’s story, Jackson Pearce develops an original novel full of action and emotions.

Three are the main characters: Scarlett March, a bloody huntress of werewolves; her sister Rosie, dreaming a life without Fenris and Silas, the “woodsman next door”. Each of them is well developed, as well as their relationships. While Scarlett lives for vengeance, Silas and Rosie hope to live a better life, a life without hunting and Fenris: they fall in love, hiding their feelings from Scarlett, pretending that nothing is going on between them. Rosie feels guilty, she’s twisted between her sister and Silas: Scarlett saved her life when she was only a child and she cannot betray her and leave her alone. But for Scarlett the only important thing in the world is hunting Fenris and, if you know of their existence, you can’t do anything else than kill, kill and kill. Who is right? Sincerly, I think Scarlett is right: if you can save other’s life, you have to do it, you can’t just pretend nothing is happening.

Knowledge does have a way of making you an outcast.

I loved her character and I really understood her, while I didn’t like too much Rosie and Silas and their behavious. I know, maybe Scarlett is too integralist, but on the other side the others are too permissive.

Fenris are really disgusting and I truly hated them as Scarlett do: they are completely beastly, without any spark of humanity.

The story is action packed but I’ve to admit the end didn’t satisfy me at all. I think I’ll read the next book in the series, Sweetly.