by Alison Cherry
Interesting premise: in the town of Scarletville, having red hair is all that matters. Felicity is popular and she has it all. She has gorgeous red hair, loyal best friends, a hot boyfriend, artistic talent, and it looks like she will win the Miss Scarlet pagent. But then she receives an anonymous n...
This is yet another book I initially read about a year and a half ago, but since I remember enjoying it, I decided to reread it so I could review it better. To my relief, despite lower-rated reviews I read from friends, I found that I still enjoyed Red for all its goofiness and craziness. The seco...
5 Words: Clever, teen, drama, high school, blackmail.I can't say that I 100% enjoyed this book. It was entertaining and I loved that it was a witty piece of social commentary and liked the way it was presented, but it just wasn't quite my cup of tea.I'm not really such a fan of high-school dramas. B...
Initial reaction: Extraordinarily cliche and cheese, but parts of it managed to be entertaining. I didn't love it or hate it, but I think it could've established the satire much better than what it did for the themes it wanted to touch on. And there was a part of me that thought Felicity could've st...
I was really looking forward to Red. I wish I could say that I liked it, but I didn't. It started out okay, even though I didn't love the writing from the start. It felt very juvenile, and after the first couple of chapters my eyes started to roll, and then it just got bad, and not much later, worse...
Expected publication: October 8th 2013 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers
*sigh* Perfect, review to come...
Red is a 2013 debut young adult novel by Alison Cherry; the first debut that I have read this year. It features a small town in Iowa called Scarletville, where the denizens are largely redheads and proud of it. In fact the Redhead populace are lauded for the genetic blessings in such a way that the ...