The book twists about all over the place, never letting you guess how it's going to end. “Too bad for you,” she said, “I’m not a lady." I bring all ladies to that state sooner or later.”
And complex and selfish at times, but always badass: Little does she know that there is always something left to lose. Feeling like she has nothing left to lose, she will do anything to stop the Devourer from seizing control of the human world with his darkness. Now older, Rachelle is haunted by her guilt and propelled by the dark power of the forest and the evil Devourer that hides at its centre. She wanted to live with every filthy desperate scrap of her heart. Rachelle makes her choice and will spend the rest of her life paying the price.Įvery day for the last three years, she had thought she deserved to die. The rules are thus: a marked human has three days to kill someone and become a slave to the forest's power or else die. Anyway, the story is about Rachelle who carelessly strays from the forest path and meets a forestborn who marks her. Now for the story but I cannot tell you too much because you deserve to discover everything in this book on your own. There are plenty of gruesome battles, sexy scenes and things younger teens might find disturbing. Within that bloody house lived Old Mother Hunger, the first and eldest of all forestborn.Īs with Cruel Beauty, this book is marketed as YA but I would stress that it is probably for the older end of that age group or adults. In the darkest shadows of the wood stands a house.
There are no wolves in this story, at least not in the literal sense, but there are things far far worse. This tale is woven with nods towards the Red Riding Hood story we all know but it wanders far from it into brand new, extremely creepy territory. If you like fairy tale retellings to stay close to the originals, then Hodge's imaginative new worlds and mythology may not be for you. You can never quite be sure which characters are trustworthy - if, indeed, any of them are.
Rosamund Hodge does not do simple characters - they are all tangled up in a bizarre web of friendship, fear, love, hate, desire and loyalty.
How do you sell a book to people when it does so many different things and does them all marvelously? I just cannot wait for Cruel Beauty fans to read this.Ĭrimson Bound is a story full of villains who are allowed to love and heroines who are allowed to murder and be selfish. I just don't know how to review this wonderful, creepy, gory, clever, twisty fairy tale and be able to do it justice. Her dreams were a tangled mess of blood and shuddering trees.
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