published by: Berkley
publish date: June 18, 2019
It's not safe for anyone alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that serve as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. She is just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that doesn't look anything like the one she grew up in, the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago.
I've been trying really hard to get back into reading. It's been so hard! My attention span just isn't what it used to be. My new commute is about an hour so that gives me some audiobook time. The Girl In Red is one of the few books I was able to listen to eagerly from start to finish.
The Girl in Red is a post apocalyptic dystopian. An airborne disease wipes out most of the population. All that's left is quarantine camps and local militia. Red has spent her life preparing for just such an event. She's determined to get her and her family from their home to her grandmother's house hundreds of miles away. I wasn't really sure why the grandmother's home was the ideal place to go, but whatever, I rolled with it.
I liked this book, but this is also my favorite genre. I thought it was going to be a fairytale retelling but it wasn't really like that. Towards the end it really kinda started going in a direction that I thought was a little weird. That didn't take away from the overall story though. Would I recommend this book? Yes, if you like this kinda thing. If you don't like dystopian, I'd skip it.
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