Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

'If the innocent are unjust, I'd rather be counted among the guilty.-Valerie'

Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright is gothic twist to well known fairytale of Little Red Riding Hood. Valerie lived in a small village, it was just like any town except for one thing- every full moon people lock themselves and leave an offering for the wolf. On a certain night there is a red moon, then the next day someone had been killed by the wolf. When Father Auguste, the expert on werewolves, comes to their village he teaches the villagers about the wolf's way of life and suddenly everyone becomes a suspect. Valerie finds that she can now hear the wolf talk to her. Who is the wolf.

I really do ask, who is the wolf?!?! I didn't do any research beforehand so i ignorantly believed that like most stories the book comes first and then the movie. However, this wasn't the case with this novel. I really wish I knew this before because I probably wouldn't have read it. Movies have sequels and are really big on marketing and making money, this was unfortunately transferred onto the book. The author even had the nerve of ending the book with, "Is this really the end for Valerie?" and we had to check the ending on the website. This book did not have an ending I was an anxious mess at the end wanting to know what happens and that it couldn't just end like that. The ending was basically the same as the middle. Valerie suddenly drops everything to run to her grandmother because she thought something could've happened to her/she was the wolf but by the end she forgets everything. What happens to the grandmother? Who is the wolf?? I checked on the website but the link wouldn't open for me, making me more anxious. Luckily, the whole story was on Wikipedia. If the book and even if the movie used Wikipedia's ending it would have been a very impressing story and everything would've tied up very nicely. It was a surprising ending but all the pieces fit when you thought back to it. Instead, this book was disappointing