Considering that this is four hundred odd pages long, I was able to zip through it very quickly. It's a likeable read, although I do think it's rather repetitive in parts. I don't know how many times Red has to have run-ins with the mean girls of her village, for instance, but I was getting a bit bored with it by the end. Her relationship with Granny, and her romance with Peter, is much more appealing... but still somewhat frustrating, as the back-and-forth in her dealings with both of them makes me kind of want to shake all parties involved and force them to use their words instead of continuing to flounder in secrecy. In Toliver's defence, however, she's working (particularly with Red and Granny) off an established storyline in Once Upon A Time, and so at this point in the timeline Red is required to maintain a certain level of ignorance as to what's going on.