I'm a complete sucker for a Red Riding Hood retelling and a friend of mine loves Aster Glenn Gray's work, so when I saw The Wolf and the Girl, I had to pick it up. It was a quick read at 84 pages and perfectly formed. It's set in pre-revolutionary Tsarist Russia and 1911 France, and especially at the beginning of the novella the setting was a lush and beautiful snowy forest that just completely drew me in. The writing was very atmospheric, and drew in elements of Baba Yaga along with the Red Riding Hood legends.

I would have loved to see this extended to be longer, just because there's so much interesting stuff to see. Raisa's trip to St. Petersburg and how that ended up with her joining the Anarchists and getting turned into a wolf, and I would love to see Raisa and Masha after the fight was over, learning each other as girl and girl instead of girl and wolf.