And then as we get to know how she actually came about, to be on this hike. The narrative timeline is split across her present, chronicling her adventures on the road as she hikes across bush-lands and her past, where we are privy to her backstory.
In someways, I thought Red was cold, too clinical in her approach to living and that made her not too likable.īut I was wrong. This is established pretty early on, giving us a sense of the resolute young woman, that Red is. She will kill to survive and to get to her goal. In the quick and brutal manner in which she dispatches her assailant off quickly establishes her as a competent young woman, who knows to get by herself and is a mean wielder of that shiny hand-axe. We first meet her crossing a patrolled border and then running into a stranger who, predictably wants to get to her food and next, her in that order.
Red, birth name Cordelia, is a twenty-something young girl on a long hike through the woods and abandoned forests somewhere in the US, trudging through to get to her grandmother's house (Yup: A cabin in the woods, that remains true!) after the whole world has been destroyed by a deadly viral infection that starts off harmlessly as the common cold and cough. But as I read the initial few chapters, I realized that as usual, Christina has taken an axe to our preconceptions about how this story of the girl in the woods who meets the wolf, will turn out to be. And so when I got the invite to review The Girl in Red, posed as a different spin on the red riding hood and the wolf story, I jumped for it.
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