Red Riding Hood

Title: Red Riding Hood
Author: Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
Publisher: New York : Poppy (2011)
ISBN: 0316176044 9780316176040 9780316190855 0316190853
Pages: 329
Characters: Valerie, Peter, Henry, Lucie
Bookmarks: 3 1/2

Daggerhorn is a village cursed with a werewolf. Villagers give the wolf monthly animal offerings at the full moon in return for their safety from the animal. One day, a villager Lucie, is found dead in a wheat field, apparently attacked by a wolf. When more villagers are attacked, a professional werewolf hunter is called in. When the professional arrives, the villagers discover that the werewolf is one of them. While being courted by both Henry and Peter, Valerie, discovers that she can hear the wolf speak but does not recognize the voice. Will she and the villagers be able to figure out who the wolf is before the village is wiped out? And if the do find out, will they be able to kill one of their own?

This was actually a really interesting book. It was hard at first to accept the idea of the Big Bad Wolf of my childhood as a werewolf, but it actually makes a lot of sense once you get further into the book. The only real complaint I have about this book is that it was written really simply. There were times that I got bored with the author's writing style. The story however was interesting enough that it kept me reading until the end.