so the first one was Cinderella. This one was Little Red Riding Hood. I'm really enjoyed this retelling of fairy tales in series format. Slowly bringing plots and characters together until the grand finale. I like Scarlet and Wolf and I think they'll make fun companions for Cinder. The grandmother story line was really sad, but necessary and worked well both for this series and in the original fairy tale sense. And boy do I like Thorne. I hope his story goes somewhere fun and ends well! Also, I'm so glad Iko is back - in different form, but just as much personality. The movement on Kai's front is going to be interesting to watch play out and I see why his fairy tale ending (and likely Cinder's based on how fairy tales go) needs to be postponed til the end. All in all, a fun second book that had a nice individual story line so things didn't slow down, but still advanced the general plot. A lovely YA read.