Meyer, M. (2013). Scarlet.
New York: Feiwel and Friends.
Scarlet’s grandmother is missing and
has been for three weeks. The police
have decided that there is not enough evidence to continue searching and
Scarlet is very upset about it. She and
her grandmother run a farm and deliver fresh vegetables to local businesses. She runs into a street fighter named “Wolf”
who wants to help her find her grandmother.
Wolf helps Scarlet go to the city to find her grandmother, but clues
start to add up and make her question if he is really helping her or is he one
of the bad guys.
Scarlet
combines Cinder from the first Lunar
Chronicle book with Scarlet’s story and the two girls’ stories are intertwined
without them knowing it. Scarlet’s story
is based loosely on Red Riding Hood in that she meets a man named “Wolf”, she wears
a red hoodie and Wolf was involved in taking her grandmother. Meyer did a great job of switching back and
forth from Scarlet to Cinder as the story unravels. She tied the two stories together neatly,
however when reading them you do have a few gaps of time of Cinder getting from
one place to another. This book is
another fantasy falling under science fiction.
I would recommend this book for middle school and up.
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