A review by slc333
Hope and Red by Jon Skovron

4.0

I enjoyed this YA fantasy - I particularly like Hope and her code of honor and quest for vengeance. And I really liked it when Red and Hope meet up both in terms of story and action. The only problem is it is at least halfway if not more into the book before that happens. Yes that back stories of Hope and Red (which alternate by chapter up to that point) give a good picture of the characters but I still would have preferred that condensed and them to meet up sooner. My main gripe with the books was all the VERY irritating slang and cursing used by Red and his fellow Paradise Circle inhabitants. A little bit adds color, the extent to which it was used and the amount of unnecessary slang was both distracting and irritating. I mean it was easy enough to figure out what they meant by the context of the statement but still the occasional slang interspersed into regular English would have worked much better. It was really annoying.