Book #70: Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

This book is the second in the Lunar Chronicles series, the sequel to Cinder. Since Cinder was the futuristic retelling of Cinderella, Scarlet is the retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, in the same world and intertwining with Cinder's storyline. Scarlet lives in a small French town and works on her grandmother's vegetable farm, but her grandmother has been missing for weeks, and the police have decided she just went missing and have stopped looking for her. Scarlet doesn't know what to do or how to find her, until she gets the help of a mysterious and kind of scary street-fighter named Wolf. Dun dun dunnnnn...

I honestly was (and still am) a little creeped out and confused by Wolf, even after getting the explanation of who/what he is (by the end of the book). I don't quite get how Scarlet falls for him (not a huge spoiler, right? When the main character gets paired up with a guy for the rest of the book you expect that to happen). I liked how Scarlet was a super determined and strong-willed main character, although it honestly went a little too far for me and became almost obnoxious, like how she insisted on tracking down her grandmother and trying to save her even though it was COMPLETELY OBVIOUS that it was not just dangerous, but suicidal, and that there was no way a teenage girl could actually manage to do anything. I mean, come on. Nobody is that stupid, right? But I liked getting a little more detail about Cinder's background and learning about her, and I liked Cinder's new sidekick in this book, even though he did come on a little strong and cliche-y. It was definitely a solid book, and both storylines were interesting and fast-paced.