2⭐️ 2🌶️
MOOD: adventurous, tense
GENRES: Fairytale Retelling, contemporary  

MAIN CHARACTERS: Mildred "Red" Hoodson, Jack Lumberton, Cameron Badson

My gut reaction when I read the characters' last names was, WTH, and I probably should have listened to that reaction and not read the rest of the book (Cameron's sister is named Carmen - that feels lazy, pick another name with different letters). Red is the worst journalist character I've ever read and that broke a lot of my suspension of disbelief - in a story about werewolves. The first half, when Red gets home and talks to Jack was hard to read because she was stuck in their high school past and it's coloring how she views the town. There is also a lot of back and forth where she just listens to whatever someone tells her - thus the bad journalist comment. 
I had to go back and look at the description for this book cause there are tropes/themes I don't do - like Love Triangles. Towards the end, there were more mistakes popping up that became harder to overlook - like a character not wearing jeans but then someone opening their jeans - stuff that should have been caught in editing or a beta read.

It was a struggle to finish and it's sad cause there was a really interesting plot in there about the Blood Moon and the Wolves and the Hunters but everything involving Red was difficult to read.

CW: death, death of parents, violence, blood, sexual content, threatened sexual assault
DISCLAIMER: I received an advance review copy. This is my honest review.


POSSIBLE SPOILER: 
The first sex scene is horrible because it is beyond mediocre, there is no indication that Red finishes but she acts like it's amazing. I really hope that was done on purpose for that MMC's character but given the rest of the writing, I don't know what to think.