RED WOLF By Rachel Vincent

July 20, 2021 by Leave a Comment

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RED WOLF By Rachel VincentRed Wolf by Rachel Vincent
Published by HarperTeen on 7/27/21
Genres: Fantasy & Magic, Retellings, Young Adult
Pages: 367
Format: eARC
Source: Publisher
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For as long as sixteen-year-old Adele can remember, the village of Oakvale has been surrounded by the dark wood—a forest filled with terrible monsters. A forest that light itself cannot penetrate.

Unlike her fellow villagers, Adele cannot avoid the dark wood.

Adele is one of a long line of guardians: women who secretly take on the form of a wolf, in order to protect their village.

But when accepting her fate means giving up the boy she loves, abandoning the future she imagined for herself, and breaking her own moral code, she must decide how far she is willing to go to keep her neighbors safe.

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Adele lives in the village of Oakvale, Oakvale is surrounded by the dark wood which is filled with monsters. Unlike the other villagers Adele can’t avoid the dark wood, she’s a guardian, she can transform into a wolf to protect the village from the dark wood. When Adele learns everything that comes with being a guardian she isn’t sure this is the life she wants.

Adele just recently turned 16 and when she goes to visit her grandmother in the dark wood she learns that she’s able to transform into a redwulf. Adele passed her trial and now she’s going to learn how to be a guardian and protect her village from the dark wood like her mother and grandmother have done before her. Adele learns that there’s sacrifices she has to make like giving up Grainger a boy she likes because he wouldn’t understand the life she’s going to live, she also learns that she already has someone she’s supposed to marry named Maxime.

There’s a lot of focus on Adele becoming a redwulf, the love triangle, and what could be terrorizing the village. Adele was an okay character I didn’t connect with her or agree with the decisions she made. She often thought she was right and would ask for advice and do the exact opposite. The love triangle was obnoxious, Adele has known Grainger longer so she prefers him, she was so rude to Maxime it was just awful. I’m surprised anyone wanted to be with her.

I liked the retelling aspect it was different from the normal Red Riding Hood we know. The ending was strange, I feel like things could have been avoided if Adele would have just listened but she ended up making a mess out of everything. With the way things ended I’m not sure if this is supposed to be a stand alone or a series.

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EVERY SINGLE LIE By Rachel Vincent

February 20, 2021 by Leave a Comment

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EVERY SINGLE LIE By Rachel VincentEvery Single Lie by Rachel Vincent
Published by Bloomsbury YA on 1/12/21
Genres: Contemporary, Mystery & Detective, Thrillers, Young Adult
Pages: 324
Format: Ebook
Source: Reviewer Purchase
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Nobody in sixteen-year-old Beckett's life seems to be telling the whole story. Her boyfriend Jake keeps hiding texts, which could mean he's cheating on her. Her father lied about losing his job and so much more before his shocking death. And everyone in school seems to be whispering about her and her family behind her back.

But none of that compares to the day Beckett finds the body of a newborn baby in a gym bag--Jake's gym bag--on the floor of her high school locker room. As word leaks out, rumors that Beckett's the mother take off like wildfire in a town all too ready to believe the worst of her.

Beckett soon finds herself facing threats and accusations both heartbreaking and dangerous. Nobody believes her side of the story, and as the police investigation unfolds, she discovers that everyone has a secret to hide and the truth could alter everything she thought she knew.

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Let’s just get into this. Beckett skips school but ends up remembering she has a test to take so she does end up in school and while in the girls locker room she finds a baby in a duffle bag, unfortunately the baby is dead. Anyway everyone in town starts to think that Beckett was the mother of the baby and start calling her a baby killer. It gets even worse when media and an online presence of supporters for the baby start making their anger known.

The premise of this book is what drew me in. I was interested to follow the mystery and see how everything would unfold. Beckett was an okay character but she was not detective material. I think that’s what frustrated me most about the Beckett was she would get a lead and then confront a potential suspect with a clue she blew out of proportion and then take back what she said because she would get evidence that would clear them, she did this more than once. The romance was okay, Beckett thought Jake was cheating on her and broke up with him but they try to work things out. Beckett also has a lot of family problems, her dad recently died and her mom works late hours and is barely home so its mainly Beckett and her brother and her sister.

Overall this was an okay book I think things could’ve been better, starting with Beckett she wasn’t a character I really related to. I felt bad about all of the threats she was receiving and that no one would believe her side of the story. I also felt like the pacing was a little slow and that might have been because of how bad Beckett’s detective skills were. There were things that could have been better but in the end Every Single Lie fell flat.

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