Liam Bean reviewed The Girl in Red by Christina Henry
Review of 'The Girl in Red' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I did like this book. I tend to like the post-apocalyptic theme in general. I think it was pretty well written, though I do feel like it cut off a bit too early.
The only real issue I had was that the author has completely forgotten being 20 years old. Alternatively, maybe she wrote the main character to be extremely immature and also to inexplicably think of 20-something year old men as children who could do no wrong (even though she believes that all older men are dangerous). Honestly, the main character reads like a 14 year old, her brother about the same. I'm just going to assume that the last batch of bad men (who she thought looked too young for it) were intended to be about 14 also, but the author needed the main character to be older for some reason so she aged everyone else up as …
I did like this book. I tend to like the post-apocalyptic theme in general. I think it was pretty well written, though I do feel like it cut off a bit too early.
The only real issue I had was that the author has completely forgotten being 20 years old. Alternatively, maybe she wrote the main character to be extremely immature and also to inexplicably think of 20-something year old men as children who could do no wrong (even though she believes that all older men are dangerous). Honestly, the main character reads like a 14 year old, her brother about the same. I'm just going to assume that the last batch of bad men (who she thought looked too young for it) were intended to be about 14 also, but the author needed the main character to be older for some reason so she aged everyone else up as well.