Scarlet Book Review

Book: Scarlet

Author: Marissa Meyer

Pages: 454

Publisher: Square Fish

Started: April 18th 2017

Finished: May 21st 2017

Goodreads: 4*

Review

Ok so I should have finished it way before I did but honestly for me it was one of those books that had the second book flop. I was confused at first why Cinder had such a big part of the book, but after a while unkind of understood. I didn't like just how much time was spent on Cinder considering that she had a whole book for herself to begin with. I would have liked some of her Chapters to be replaced with extra chapters about Scarlet. 

At first I didn't like Scarlet that much I found her a bit annoying. But over time I liked her more and more. 

One of my biggest pet peeves with books is short Chapters. I hate it. With that being said the chapters of this boook annoyed me even more because at some points in the book (every 100 pages or so) it would be split even further and it annoyed me no end. 

I know each book is a retelling of a Disney story I thought it would be a kind of series that you could pick up any of the books and it wouldn't matter what order you picked them up in it would all make sense. I thought it was a different kind of series that 

I gave it 4* because it wasn't great. It would have been better if Cinder's part was a lot smaller, and Scarlet's was longer. A lot of Cinder's parts could have been cut out of the final edit to be honest.  I much preferred Cinder in her own book, and if she didn't have as much of a part in this one I would have liked Scarlet a lot more. 

Regarding Wolf as I haven't really talked about him that much. It really confused me about if he was actually a wolf, or a human, or part of both. 

• How is Scarlet similar to the story of Little Red Riding Hood

Scarlet is similar to Little Red Riding Hood because her grandmother is missing and she goes looking for her, and who or traveling to look for her she wears a red top

• How's it different

Scarlet is different because wolf is a part of a gang of wolfs, who had kidnapped her grandmother. Even though there is food within the book it's different because instead of searching for it she is growing and selling it. There isn't a father figure in the original where there is in this one. 

• Do you think each of them would make a good role model for young women

Honestly are any of them actually role models for young women?  But if I am being honest I don't believe that Cinder is a good role model even though I like her a lot more then I liked Scarlet.