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But even as more girls' bodies pile up in the city and the Fenris seem to be gaining power, Rosie dreams of a life beyond the wolves. She finds herself drawn to Silas, a young woodsman who is deadly with an ax and Scarlett's only friend — but does loving him mean betraying her sister and all that they've worked for? Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem.

Return to Book Page. Preview — Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce. Scarlett March lives to hunt the Fenris — the werewolves that took her eye when she was defending her sister Rosie from a brutal attack. Armed with a razor-sharp hatchet and blood-red cloak, Scarlett is an expert at luring and slaying the wolves. She's determined to protect other young girls from a grisly death, and her raging heart will not rest until every single wolf is Scarlett March lives to hunt the Fenris — the werewolves that took her eye when she was defending her sister Rosie from a brutal attack.

She's determined to protect other young girls from a grisly death, and her raging heart will not rest until every single wolf is dead. Hardcover , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Sisters Red , please sign up. Do these books have to be read in order?? It adds to a really cool experience …more I recommend first either Sisters Red and Sweetly which ever one and then Fathomless and afterwards Cold Spell.

It adds to a really cool experience with the reading of the books. I want to read this book but I'm not entirely sure. What do you think of it? Sasha it wasn't very good in my opinion. See all 6 questions about Sisters Red…. Lists with This Book. Jan 19, Lucy rated it it was ok Shelves: This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Someone linked to a review on Book Smuggler. I read the review on Book Smuggler and purchased Sisters Red. I'm one of those people who will read censored books just because they were censored.

Book censorship is basically one of the most ridiculous things you can do. People just get curious about the why and really there's nothing more pointless than pretending a book doesn't ex I purchased Sisters Red because it was censored off of Bitch Magazine's Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader. People just get curious about the why and really there's nothing more pointless than pretending a book doesn't exist.

It's like playing hide and seek with a three year old who hides under a table or behind a curtain. Their little feet are visible, but they think if they can't see you then they're well hidden. All the stuff in censored books exists off the pages of the book even if you clench your eyes tight and pretend it's not there.

However, after reading Sisters Red I've come to the conclusion that it wasn't censored. It just didn't really belong on a list geared toward feminist literature. Sisters Red is a YA book and it does have a female main character, but I don't think it belongs on a shelf with YA feminist literature -- that would be like putting Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty adult books in the children's section because it's a fairytale.

A few YA authors Maureen Johnson, Scott Westerfeld, etc got up in arms over the removal of this book and a few others because it was censorship and therefore intrinsically wrong, but I don't think Sisters Red makes for feminist reading. Ultimately, I believe Book Smugglers is correct about the victim blaming passage -- and there's more than one of them in the book. Scarlett lives and breathes to call other girls stupid for dressing scantily and I'm pretty sure she let a girl die to teach her and her friends a lesson, but more on that later.

Scarlett and Rosie March are Fenris hunters. In Pearce's mythos the werewolves are called Fenris and can change whenever they want. Fenris hunt young girls so they can eat their hearts and savour their fear before they do it. I got the impression Fenris are not particular about what part of a girl they munch on despite the Pearce being specific about hearts early on.

The Fenris aren't interested in boys, at least not according to book one. Girls are what they munch on. The younger and prettier the girl is the more appealing she is. It's also not just about the death itself, but the fear building up around it. What is it they say about rape? It's not about sex but about power, right? Anyway, the March girls live alone.

The story opens with the girls at eleven and nine years old. A Fenris attacks them, killing their grandmother and permanently disfiguring Scarlett. She loses an eye. The girls have an on-again and off-again mother who takes care of them for a few years along with some neighbors. Presumably she's been off-again for some time when the story opens.

They have no fathers because even better than being a bad mother who vanishes on them often, their mother couldn't keep track of who she took to bed. The girls assume they are half siblings to begin with and that they have half siblings floating around, either from their fathers who are unaware of them, or another child from their mother. Scarlett and Rosie drop out of high school so that they can hunt Fenris. Rosie doesn't particularly want to, but she owes Scarlett her life. She also laments about not being able to hold down a job because hunting Fenris is so much more important than being able to pay your bills, yet they are never tempted to share their knowledge of the Fenris.

Despite all the time they dedicate to hunting, by Scarlett's count they've only killed 97 of Fenris. For the amount of pages Scarlett scowls over other girls Dragonfly girls and their innocent stupidity she sure as hell isn't trying to make a public service announcement about it. We, the readers, know she can't tell anyone about it because that would mean the idea of this secret world existing in our world would be revealed -- but she needs a more valid reason for that in the pages of the book than that all other fantasy does it!

The plot swells with the return of a friend and fellow hunter, Silas. Silas lives down the road and his family is the one that took care of Rosie and Scarlett. Since Rosie and Scarlett are very much on their own I'm going to say Silas's family didn't care all that much. Scarlett and Silas hunt together a lot and Rosie is the sidekick because despite being bitter that her sister is whole and beautiful, Scarlett really wants to keep her that way. The Fenris are more active because apparently there's a Potential werewolf who is in a cycle where he can be turned from a human to a soulless monster.

Silas, Rosie, and Scarlett decide to go to Atlanta where the werewolf population is denser so they can hunt while the werewolves frantically search for this new possible werewolf. Only men can become werewolves, or at least all the werewolves we encounter are men. Turning a new person into a Fenris is a big deal, but refrigerator logic tells me that if upping the population by one was so important than they would have noticed Scarlett and company killing off nearly one hundred wolves in half a decade a wee bit sooner.

Oh who needs logic! We've got a YA romance on our hands, guys, and that should distract you from noticing pesky little things like plot holes. Silas and Rosie start giving each other long, soulful gazes and touching each other in lingering ways. It would have been cool to see the less than perfect, less than totally gorgeous sister land the guy, but since this is what Pearce gave us Silas is twenty-one right? How old is Rosie? She's fucking sixteen years old. She's sixteen and he's twenty-one. If this was addressed for even a paragraph in the book maybe I could've come to terms with it, but it's not.

This is treated as perfectly normal. When I was in high school one of my friends started sleeping with a man in his mid-twenties. I thought this was a Very Bad Idea and we more or less stopped talking. A few years later we bumped into one another on campus at college and she admitted it was a mistake and she pushed me out of her life because I was making her face up to that fact.

I didn't ask what happened with her and the guy who was a choir instructor at her church and married to boot , but I thanked her for letting me know it wasn't really my fault we fell out of touch. I think if she had gotten her hands on this book in high school it would have validated her relationship for her and that is wrong. A twenty-one year old dating a sixteen year old is wrong. Even if you go by the laws of half your age plus eight, he shouldn't have been with anyone younger than an eighteen year old which would have been a world more appropriate.

Also, at the end of the book, seven months after the events of most of Sisters Red , Rosie and Silas go off on their own to travel and 'kiss like lovers. At worst she is still sixteen. She has no parental figures in her life and now she's shacking up with a man in his twenties, bouncing around the country. She is completely and utterly dependent on him from money since she's never really had a job, has no education, and they're living on the money he got from selling his house.

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It's even worse when you really think about how she dropped out of middle school, never went to high school, and has almost no world experience. Silas is the only man to ever pay any attention to Rosie and he is a man, not a boy. Again, shaking up with a guy significantly older than you and letting him pay for everything doesn't read perticularly feminist to me.

Scarlett's relationship with Rosie is a weird mix of jealousy and possession. They're both flat characters with no depth.

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Scarlett is obsessed; Rosie is her indebted servant. It would be one thing if Scarlett didn't realize how much her sister hated hunting, but she's fully aware of the leash she's got her sister on and she responds by yanking the choke collar when she finds out Rosie and Silas are getting their dry hump on. It is after all YA. It's okay to promote rape culture, not okay for consensual sex although in this particular case it would've been statutory rape so I suppose I'm actually grateful the sexual relationship is implied in a throwaway line later rather than ever explored.

The hatred Scarlett feels for the Dragonfly girls she constantly compares her sister to is pretty obvious. These girls have no thoughts or opinions, their level of education and contributions to society are nonexistent. They are just pretty things with turquoise eyeshadow and lip gloss. They're constantly reduced to the idea of someone's daughter, sister, girlfriend, etc etc. None of these girls have any value by themselves, just the value they hold to other people who will miss them if they get chowed on.

I'm not going to re-quote the victim blaming passage Book Smugglers highlighted. You can follow the link for that one. I will, however, quote something else that really bothered me. It's hard to tell whether Scarlett deliberately left the girls in danger to punish them for being stupid or to preserve their innocent stupidity. Because she considers how she could take down the Fenris in human form before he got close without major consequences I feel it was in part about punishing them for their innocent ignorance.

They're at least my age, so how is it they laugh like children? They aren't like the sparkly club Dragonflies, but some less-adorned breed of Dragonflies in t-shirts and jeans, walking together down the city street with their arms linked and ponytails bobbing. The Fenris watches them hungrily, sniffing the air and grinning sickeningly when he catches the scent of their hair and perfume on the wind. It doesn't matter that people are all around -- I can slaughter him like the monster he is then run. They'll never find me. Except that it does matter.

Seeing the Fenris, seeing what they really are It changes everything, even if they don't take your eyes or your skin. The Dragonflies will never be the same -- they'll have seen the darkness; they'll know it exists despite their glittery eye shadow and glossy lips. They'll never look at the news the same way again, never look at a man noticing their legs the same way, never feel the same. I would be killing not only the Fenris, but also the girls' stupid, ignorant innocence. Scarlett regrets the possibility of exposing them; I want to believe she's looking for an opportunity to kill him away from the girls, but I don't get why she can't kill him as a man.

If she can kill him when he's still in human form then the Dragonfly girls will never be exposed to the Fenris, just some axe throwing psycho in a red cloak. It's previously stated that Scarlett and Rosie try to wait until these things go full on wolf 'to be sure,' but Scarlett IS certain. If the author's intention is to show Scarlett regretting ruining their innocence then perhaps she shouldn't have Scarlett look down on them all for it through the rest of the book because to me this read like her letting them go off to the slaughter.

In the end, one of the girls gets ripped apart while our hero in red is trailing at a distance. Scarlett steps on her elbow. She saves the other two helpless lambs and shoves them in a cab Scarlett and Rosie are the only female characters in the book whose relationships can have depth and intensity? These girls are shaken up but in a self-involved sort of way.

They're trembling and clutching each other, but they don't mention their friend. Actually I don't think they even got any dialogue whatsoever.

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The big reveal is Silas is the Potential. I saw it coming a long way off. The plot twist of the wolves being too late when they bit him? I knew that too. The author flatly states what time is too late and there's sentences referring to the bells of the church chiming, making it clearly past the point when they could've turned Silas. Also, I don't understand why the Fenris waited until so close to the dead line to schedule the main confrontation. It didn't make sense. They should have wanted a wide window between them and Silas being safe. Also, Rosie's escape from the werewolf clutches was just a chance to redeem her character as useful and not too stupid to live despite how often she 'forgot' her weapons at home.

There was a lot of convenient plotting in the book I'm not even getting into -- including Rosie meeting up with a Fenris at her tango lesson Yeah, I'm being serious. Also, that would be one of the occasions when she 'forgot' her weapons. Later she gets kidnapped by the Fenris, still no knives. This is pretty much the definition of too stupid to live, guys. This book is about as feminist as Twilight. Just because Scarlett kicks some ass does not make her a feminist character.

If a guy I met implied half the things she actively thought I would've put my knee in his crotch early into the conversation. Her obsession and fixations with hunting don't make her auto-feminist, outraged YA authors. On top of all that, this book was also poorly written.

The adverbs rain from the sky and the dialogue attribution adverbs! It sounded very campy. Here are a few gems -- there are worse examples but I can't be bothered to dig out the most awful bits. This might be a pet peeve, but 1. I fucking hate the word snickers and 2. Also thanks for the 'in response' part. I never would've got that the statement was attached to the rest of the conversation without it.

That was what Silas and I were sparring for. He thinks I need to get out more--" "You do," Silas interrupts. Yeah, again, I never would have gathered he was interrupting unless you used that for his dialogue tag. View all 23 comments. Dec 06, karen rated it really liked it Shelves: View all 28 comments. Dec 07, Emily May rated it liked it Shelves: One one hand, it contains most of the elements I consider important in a good urban fantasy novel: I thought Rosie was a very dull "I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter. I find it actually quite odd that Jackson Pearce built it up as such a huge mystery, I was sure that there had to be some twist coming because, honestly, I am one of the densest readers out there and I saw it coming a mile off.

However, the story is very fast-paced and easy to read.

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The first pages are just your standard fairytale retelling stuff, bit of background information that draws parallels between this story and the tale of Red Riding Hood, two sisters become hunters to avenge their grandmother's death and also to protect other girls from falling prey to the fenris. Things really start to get interesting after the page marker when the girls move to the city and start hunting the bigger predators. There's a lot to be enjoyed in this book. Perhaps the story's strongest aspect, for me, was the relationship between the two sisters.

It was a strong, convincing bond that people only develop through sharing unspeakable and horrific experiences. But I found Scarlett - the older sister - to be the far better and interesting and just well-rounded character. After losing an eye and being left deformed in the attack that killed her grandma, Scarlett has become the scarred warrior. She is obsessed with hunting and revenge, she loves her sister and would go to extreme lengths to protect her, yet at the same time she holds a secret envy of her sister's beauty and her ability to have a normal life and boyfriend.

She is the far more complex sister. Whereas Rosie is supposed to be the opposite, a romantic dreamer secretly longing for a normal life outside of hunting I found her boring. That is, until she decided to turn out the best quote of the book see top of review. I was pleased to discover that the description's emphasis on the romance in the novel is not particularly reflective of the story itself. The romance is only a very small part of the plot with a male character who is kind and respectful, surprising seeing as Becca Fitzpatrick is quoted on the back of my copy.

This is good if you're looking for some light - if slightly gory - entertainment. View all 7 comments. Dec 03, Katya rated it it was ok Shelves: Okay, Sisters Red, we need to sit down and have a little chat. I love strong characters. I love strong female character. I especially love strong female characters who happen to kick a lot of arse.

You think there isn't a difference, but actually, there's plenty. Because sometimes writers try to have strong, kickass female characters, but only end up with the kick-ass part and leave the strong one out. To put it in another way, whenever I read books like Sisters Red, I feel like the writer wanted Okay, Sisters Red, we need to sit down and have a little chat.

To put it in another way, whenever I read books like Sisters Red, I feel like the writer wanted something like this: But end up with something like this: In other words, they try to make a badass character but they think that the only thing that makes them badass is the fact that they The actual plot of the book is a revamp of the original story "Little Red Riding Hood". Sisters Scarlett and Rosie March were attacked by a werewolf called Fenris, in this world when they were little, and they haven't been the same since.

Scarlett, badly injured and bitter, spends all her time hunting, while Rosie is torn between her 'duty' and her desire for something more. Things change when their childhood friend and fellow hunter, Silas, comes back from San Francisco, and Fenris start popping around every corner. Suddenly, Scarlett and Rosie are forced to look at all the things they were ignoring, and to acknowledge that things need to change. But hey, you say, that's not all fighting, is it? Excellent ground for character development. And the March sisters do grow into that ground, but not quite in the direction I wished they would go in.

Scarlett's evolution as a character revolves around the fact that she is the older sibling and that she has always protected her sister. She also fights a lot, but not just because her grandmother's philosophy stuck - it's made clear early in the story that she uses the hunt to make herself feel complete.

And that's all well and good, except in the end, she hasn't moved much past that. She's let her sister go, but she can't let go of the hunt out of some weird sense of duty. The problem with this is that Rosie isn't the only sister who wishes for a normal life. Scarlett does often wonder what might have happened if she hadn't been scarred, but cannot afford the same happily ever after as Rosie in the end, because she doesn't fit in the normal mould in the same way her sister does. And it bothers me, because it is such a lazy move. The pretty sister and her boyfriend are more than happy to let Scarlett handle all the responsibility while they're out in the world living their normal lives, and they're fine because I know how the story is, but they just come off as a couple of assholes.

Why couldn't the scarred sister get the guy? Why couldn't her character be given more development other than "loves to fight and bring justice"? And don't even get me started on Silas. And he only thought to tell her after he hooked up with her sister? Did it never occur to him to Try and make Scarlett feel better about herself rather than alienate her and feed her obsession? I would even be pleased about Scarlett, but I just can't let it go because she obviously wished for a normal life too.

Why not delve into her voyage of self-discovery? It's such rich soil to explore self-esteem issues and trauma, but instead, the author took the easy way out. The plot moves fast, and other than some plot fairies and big lipped alligator moments, it was fine. I just honestly thought it could be so much better! Feb 12, TheBookSmugglers rated it did not like it Shelves: Originally reviewed on The Book Smugglers back in a few months later this review caused a shitstorm online and you can read about it here. I could tell you that for the first pages of this book I was completely engrossed in the story.

How could I not? I mean, a dark, violent even, retelling of Red Riding Hood in which two sisters are the hunters who kill the wolves? It helps that the first pages were very gripping: Then, as teenagers they fall in the roles that they have taken for themselves that day: Scarlett sees nothing but the hunt, Rosie wants something else for her life. I could tell you that I like the prose. But also that the tale and the alternating chapters between the two sisters get repetitive very soon. I could tell you that when the next door neighbour, a woodsman-hunter named Silas comes back to town that I knew Rosie would fall for him and that their story was actually quite sweet.

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I could definitely tell you that part of what makes me like the book to begin with is the fact that making the two girls the ones who go after the werewolves to kill them is rather an empowering take on the original tale. I could tell you all that. But what I really want to tell you is: You see, it is part of this retelling that the werewolves are predators who are after young, pretty girls.

Obviously, Scarlett, being the ugly, scarred sister, just sits back to attack when Rosie has played the role of prey. Scarlett is outside a nightclub observing the girls in the queue to get in: Their hair is all the same, long and streaked, spiralling down their backs to where the tiny strings holding their tops on are knotted tightly.

Their skin glows under the neon lights — amber, ebony, cream — like shined metal, flawless and smooth. I press harder against the crumbly brick wall behind me, tugging my crimson cloak closer to my body. The scars on my shoulders show through fabric when I pull the cloak tight. Bumpy red hills in perfectly spaced lines. The Dragonflies laugh, sweet, and bubbly, and I groan in exasperation. Inviting danger like some baby animal bleating its fool head off. Look at me, see how I dance, did you notice my hair, look again, desire me, I am perfect.

I should let the Fenris have one of you. I sigh and walk to the other side of the brick wall, letting my fingers tangle in the thick ivy. I breathe slowly, watching the tree limbs sway, backlit by the lights of skyscrapers. Ignorance is no reason to die. My world is parallel universe to their — the same sights, same people, same city, yet the Fenris lurk, the evil creeps, the knowledge undeniably exists.

She is an angry character, full of regret, jealousy — and being scarred and ugly does get to her seeing as how she keeps going on and on about it. So, the text above is in keeping with this character. BUT Two lines down and Silas joins her as she observes him: I want to comment, but I stay quiet. Somehow it feels important to wait for his reaction. Silas finally turns to look at me in the shadows. Rosie could never be one of them. By then, I was beyond uncomfortable, I was downright angry.

The meta is thus: If they knew better, they would change their behaviour and would not be attacked. This is what I read. But this is not what I should be reading. The blame always, always lies with the criminal or predator. And just like that I am done with the book. Because the bottom line is this: And I am sick and tired of books that associate girls that are self-confident and beautiful with being shallow and superficial and deserving of bad things happening to them.

That is not ok. I did read till the bitter end in the hopes that another character would come in and say: I will only say: As a scarred, bitter young woman dedicated to destroying all Fenris at any cost, this sort of thought process makes perfect sense for someone like Scarlett. But then, after Ana pointed out the next section, it made me think about the overall message…and I stand firmly with Ana. It is frustrating — no, infuriating — beyond belief that the women in Sisters Red are so stereotyped and marginalized.

Well, folks, unfortunately Sisters Red has a whole lot of other problems too. The characters are mind-numbingly repetitive and boring. Initially, I found a lot to like with Sisters Red. I love that Rosie is a different person — that she cannot remember the past too clearly, and that she clearly loves Lett, but needs to grow to be her own person.

All this promising characterization is exhausted in the first thirty or so pages of the book. From then on it is more of. Scarlett gets mad at Rosie for being careless. Scarlett goes hunting for Fenris. Scarlett gets mad again and wallows in her pit of eternal self-suffering. But she wants to be taken seriously. And so on and so forth. Things get pretty dull, pretty quickly. These characters never felt real to me — more like your standard cardboard stand-ins. Could this book just have been about the sisters without one of them needing the catalyst of falling in love with the studly boy next door?

Of course, this could just be me and how burned out I am with YA paranormal romance. Lots of people love this stuff. I, unfortunately, am at the end of my rope. These were my issues with Sisters Red — which arose long before the club scene — and they were enough to make me put down the book. May 01, Rissa rated it it was amazing Shelves: Best red riding hood retelling ive ever read! I loved the wolf hunting it reminded me of supernatural. And the two sisters relationship is strained and broken but still so strong.

I loved the semi love triangle and the friendship between the three of them,So strong and connected and secretive all at once. Alot of it actually reminds me of supernatural which might be why i like it so much! Looking for the potential and I also really like both points of view. Each sisters POV kept Best red riding hood retelling ive ever read!

Each sisters POV kept me entertained and i enjoyed reading both but i liked Rosies a bit better. Apr 27, Kristi rated it liked it Shelves: I loved Pearce's debut novel, As You Wish I just enjoy it quite as much as I did As You Wish. I loved how Pearce portrayed Rosie and Scarlett's world And I loved the relationship between the sisters. Having two sisters of my own, I understand how strong of a bond sisterhood can be. And Pearce's writing was top notch just as it was in As You Wish. But I guess that is where my love for this novel ended. I had a really hard time getting into the story.

It just didn't seem like much was happening. Sure there were some kick ass fights every once in a while, but it just wasn't all that interesting. I found Scarlett's passion of killing the Fenris to be annoying. She was too selfish of a character, and her abilities where just a little too unrealistic for me Perhaps I would have enjoyed the story more if it would have been told solely from Rosie's point of view. Scarlett started to grow on me a little bit there in the end, but I was still bitter with her from all of her crap at the beginning!

The romance between Silas and Rosie was something that I did enjoy! It was sweet and endearing! And I almost wish Scarlett might have had a little bit of love to soften her rough edges I loved the story, the writing It was a little bit slow for me, and had a hard time getting into, but I am glad that I stuck through and made it to the end. Aug 09, Kiki rated it it was ok Recommended to Kiki by: This book should be called Sisters Miss The Point. Sep 18, Lisa rated it did not like it Shelves: The beginning was good, then I got impatient and it just felt like Rosie was whining a little to me.

And the age thing with her and Silas. She's basically still a kid, no matter how 'different' she looks physically. A lot of people look older than their age, does that mean that it's okay? And I felt so bad for Scarlett. Didn't she deserve SOME sort of romantic interest? Jeez, just because she's scarred that makes it okay for g The beginning was good, then I got impatient and it just felt like Rosie was whining a little to me.

Jeez, just because she's scarred that makes it okay for guys not to be interested in her. I think she'd be entitled to a knight in shining armor. I felt cheated for her. In that regard, I was rather disappointed. I can't even read through the entire thing fully. I keep skimming it and finally reading the end. Jan 21, C. Drews rated it really liked it Shelves: I loved this book! It had heaps of problems! After my sister threatened my life if I didn't read it funny how that works, eh?

Considering it's about sisters I finally borrowed it from the library. I read it in a day. I was totally engrossed with the characters and world, but utterly bored with the plot. The sisters are Scarlett and Rosie. They're a mash up of Little Red Riding Hood -- but two instead of one which I think is absolutely wonderful. I LOVE sister stories!

This maybe because I have a sister, so therefore I know when the relationship is written right. They simultaneously love each other and want to claw each other's eyes out. THAT is true sisterhood. Being a big sister myself, I really connected with Scarlett. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge: When Triss wakes up after an accident, she knows something is very wrong.

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The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer. As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps.

A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened. An abandoned mansion, deep in the woods. A dollhouse, filled with life-sized toys. A doorway into other realms. And girls who keep disappearing…. Instead, the three teens fall into a carefully-laid trap—deep into the surreal nightmare and dark secrets of the Dollhouse. The imposing mansion sends a shiver of fear through her.

But Kit settles into a routine, trying to ignore the rumors that the highly exclusive boarding school is haunted. Then her classmates begin to show extraordinary and unknown talents. The strange dreams, the voices, the lost letters to family and friends, all become overshadowed by the magic around them. When Deuce turns 15, she takes on her role as a Huntress, and is paired with Fade, a teenage Hunter who lived Topside as a young boy.

When she and Fade discover that the neighboring enclave has been decimated by the tunnel monsters—or Freaks—who seem to be growing more organized, the elders refuse to listen to warnings. Madeline Usher is doomed. She has spent her life fighting fate, and she thought she was succeeding. Until she woke up in a coffin. Ushers can never leave their house, a house that haunts and is haunted, a house that almost seems to have a mind of its own.

Her only chance lies in destroying the house. Clementine DeVore spent ten years trapped in a cellar, pinned down by willow roots, silenced and forgotten. When Clementine was a child, dangerous and inexplicable things started happening in New South Bend. The townsfolk blamed the fiendish people out in the Willows and burned their homes to the ground. But magic kept Clementine alive, walled up in the cellar for ten years, until a boy named Fisher sets her free.

Back in the world, Clementine sets out to discover what happened all those years ago. But the truth gets muddled in her dangerous attraction to Fisher, the politics of New South Bend, and the Hollow, a fickle and terrifying place that seems increasingly temperamental ever since Clementine reemerged. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve.

The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future—between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded by so much death? By day, Risika sleeps in shaded room in Concord, Massachusetts.

By night, she hunts the streets of New York City. She is used to being alone. But someone is following Risika. He has left her a black rose, the same sort of rose that sealed her fate three hundred years ago. Three hundred years ago Risika had a family- a brother and a father who loved her. Three hundred years ago she was human. Now she is a vampire, a powerful one. But her past has come back to torment her. Frost House, the cozy Victorian dorm where she and her best friends live, has been assigned an unexpected roommate—eccentric Celeste Lazar.

As classes get under way, strange happenings begin to bedevil Frost House: Celeste blames the housemates, convinced they want to scare her into leaving. A dead girl walks the streets. Child killers, much like the man who threw her body down a well three hundred years ago. And when a strange boy bearing stranger tattoos moves into the neighborhood so, she discovers, does something else. And soon both will be drawn into the world of eerie doll rituals and dark Shinto exorcisms that will take them from American suburbia to the remote valleys and shrines of Aomori, Japan.

They are from Half World, a Limbo between our world and the afterlife, and her father is still there. When her mother disappears, Melanie must follow her to Half World—and neither of them may return alive. Katie is on the verge of her Rumspringa, the time in Amish life when teenagers can get a taste of the real world. But the real world comes to her in this dystopian tale with a philosophical bent. Something murderous is out there. Amish elders make a rule: No one goes outside, and no outsiders come in. The suspense of this vividly told, truly horrific thriller will keep the pages turning.

Moving was supposed to be a chance at a fresh start, a way to leave behind all the pain and ugliness of her old life. But, when a terrible car accident changes her life forever, her near-death experience opens a door to a world inhabited by Madeline Torus. She is exactly what Elanor has always wanted in a best friend and more—their connection runs deeper than friendship. Madeline is her entire life, and that life is drastically spinning out of control. Elanor knows what happens when your best friend becomes your worst enemy. But what happens when your worst enemy is yourself?

Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. But that was a long time ago. Jane stares into a reflecting ball in the garden—and the face that looks back at her is not her own. Many years earlier, a child of rage and malevolence lived in this place.

And she never left. Now Emily has dark plans for little Jane—a blood-chilling purpose that Louisa, just a girl herself, must battle with all her heart, soul, and spirit. Beware of Long Lankin, that lives in the moss. When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their elderly aunt in the isolated village of Byers Guerdon, they receive a less than warm welcome. Auntie Ida is eccentric and rigid, and the girls are desperate to go back to London. Sixteen-year-old Juliet Moreau has built a life for herself in London—working as a maid, attending church on Sundays, and trying not to think about the scandal that ruined her life.

But when she learns he is alive and continuing his work on a remote tropical island, she is determined to find out if the accusations are true. He has experimented on animals so that they resemble, speak, and behave as humans. There is a right way and a wrong way to summon her. Jess had done the research. Each of them—Jess, Shauna, Kitty, and Anna—must link hands, follow the rules. A thrilling fear spins around the room the first time Jess calls her name: Once is not enough, though—at least not for Jess.

Mary is called again. But when their summoning circle is broken, Bloody Mary slips through the glass with a taste for revenge on her lips. A haunting trail of clues leads Shauna on a desperate search to uncover the legacy of Mary Worth. After all, she heard strange voices that drove her to commit suicide. Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London to start a new life at boarding school just as a series of brutal murders mimicking the horrific Jack the Ripper killing spree of more than a century ago has broken out across the city. The police are left with few leads and no witnesses.

Rory spotted the man believed to be the prime suspect. But she is the only one who saw him — the only one who can see him. And now Rory has become his next target…unless she can tap her previously unknown abilities to turn the tables. But now all Pemba has is Mom and that strange old man, Abraham. There are so many answers deep inside that music. Phyllys, an eighteenth-century slave girl, has answers, too. They billow out from her ghostly visits to Pemba, visits that transform both girls in ways neither expected. Soon Rogelia agrees to teach the girls the magic of their ancestors, much as she taught her granddaughters, Xochitl and Gracielia.

Besides, magic has let Xochitl down before. Then one night, in Lafayette Cemetery, Rebecca makes a friend. Sweet, mysterious Lisette is eager to talk to Rebecca, and to show her the nooks and crannies of the city. After the untimely death of her aunt, Cecilia Cross is forced to return to Sanctuary, a rambling, old mansion that crowns a remote island off the coast of Maine. Cecilia is both drawn to and repulsed by Sanctuary.

Flooding memories leave Cecilia shaken, desperate to run away and forget her terrible family history. But then a mysterious guest arrives at Sanctuary: Cecilia is intrigued by this strange young man who seems so interested in her—even more interested in her than in the books he is meant to be studying. Who is he and what does he want? Can Cecilia possibly trust her growing feelings for him? And can he help her make peace a tragic past and a haunted present?

Dovey learns that demons lurk in places other than the dark corners of her mind in this southern gothic fantasy from the author of the Blud series. Since that night, Dovey has been in a medicated haze, numb to everything around her. Determined to learn the truth, Dovey stops taking her pills. And the world that opens up to her is unlike anything she could have imagined. As Dovey slips deeper into the shadowy corners of Savannah—where the dark and horrifying secrets lurk—she learns that the storm that destroyed her city and stole her friend was much more than a force of nature.

And now the sinister beings truly responsible are out to finish what they started.

Summer Reader Poll 2018: Horror

Rory Miller had one chance to fight back and she took it. Rory survived and the serial killer who attacked her escaped. Now that the infamous Steven Nell is on the loose, Rory must enter the witness protection program. Entering the program alongside her, is her father and sister Darcy. The trio starts a new life and a new beginning leaving their friends and family behind without a goodbye.

Starting over in a new town with only each other is unimaginable for Rory and Darcy. They were inseparable as children but now they can barely stand each other. As the sisters settle in to Juniper Landing, a picturesque vacation island, it seems like their new home may be just the fresh start they need. They fall in with a group of beautiful, carefree teens and spend their days surfing, partying on the beach, and hiking into endless sunsets. Is it a coincidence?

Or is the nightmare beginning all over again? Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat—a girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. As one of the last descendants of the Van Helsing lineage, she has trained since childhood to destroy monsters both corporeal and spiritual: With an analog SLR camera as her best weapon, Micheline exorcises ghosts by capturing their spiritual energy on film. When a routine ghost hunt goes awry, Micheline and the boys are infected with a curse known as a soulchain.

Kit and Fancy Cordelle are sisters of the best kind: But in Portero, where the weird and wild run rampant, the Cordelle sisters are hardly the oddest or most dangerous creatures around. What starts as a fascination with slicing open and stitching up quickly spirals into a gratifying murder spree.