A Book With a Color in the Title

On the side of my blog there is a little button that shows how many books I've read out of my total goal. If you've seen this before, you may have I've been adding books that I've finished, but I haven't been blogging about them. This is because I've gotten really into Manga lately and each volume is so short I feel like blogging about each one individually would get repetitive and time consuming. So I waited until I finished Scarlet, the second book in the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer.

I took my time reading this only because I was so focused on Manga that I didn't get around to it much. However, when I finally did adjust to the difference in pace and such, I found Scarlet was a book with an interesting plot and a fantastic main character. 

Like Cinder, Scarlet is a retelling of a classic fairy tail and the title is also the name of the main character. In this case, the traditional story was Little Red Riding Hood. Scarlet, the character not the entire novel, is a much more contemporary and stronger character than the original little red (whatever her name was). Scarlet doesn't wait for a lumberjack to come save her, though a little help from one of the wolves never goes astray, and takes her fate into her own hands.

The story starts with the abduction of Scarlet's grandmother and her chance meeting with a man called Wolf who fights for a living, has never eaten tomato, and has a strange tattoo. While romance builds between the two, Cinder (from book one) is busy breaking out of prison with Captain Thorne and returning android, Iko, as companions. At the same time all of this is happening, Prince Kai attempts to avoid war with the Lunar queen after finding out she's building an army out of genetically modified citizens. The book is action-packed with side notes of romance and comedy. 

To sum it all up, Marissa Meyer did an excellent job with this sequel and I look forward to reading Cress and Winter (when it comes out in November!).