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A review by whatsmacksaid
Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
3.0
My advice: don't go into this thinking it will change your life. It won't. It's a YA fairy tale retelling in a genre full of them, and there are certain things (like using hatchets instead of guns, or the romance or the twist) that will just have to be taken without comment.
I did enjoy this. I particularly loved the different voices we get through the alternating POV--Scarlett and Rose are so different from one another, but still fully formed, codependent, and sort of twisted young women. Scarlett, in particular, is aware of her darker impulses and accepts them as part of who she is. Not in any kind of broody way, but because she knows better than to try to change herself. (I took her view toward "dragonflies" or "innocents" to be part of that: how *she,* specifically views the world, not as a victim-blaming thing. But now that it's been pointed out to me, I can see it and certainly wouldn't begrudge anyone who disagreed with me.)
What I DID hate was how a boy came between the sisters. They worked it out eventually, and that new introduction to their relationships is part of their evolution, but I really, really hated how Silas sort of seduced Rosie away from hunting/Scarlett's way of life as it was happening.
I did enjoy this. I particularly loved the different voices we get through the alternating POV--Scarlett and Rose are so different from one another, but still fully formed, codependent, and sort of twisted young women. Scarlett, in particular, is aware of her darker impulses and accepts them as part of who she is. Not in any kind of broody way, but because she knows better than to try to change herself. (I took her view toward "dragonflies" or "innocents" to be part of that: how *she,* specifically views the world, not as a victim-blaming thing. But now that it's been pointed out to me, I can see it and certainly wouldn't begrudge anyone who disagreed with me.)
What I DID hate was how a boy came between the sisters. They worked it out eventually, and that new introduction to their relationships is part of their evolution, but I really, really hated how Silas sort of seduced Rosie away from hunting/Scarlett's way of life as it was happening.