Title: As Red As Blood
Author: Salla Simukka and Owen Whitesman
Published: August 1, 2014
Rating: 3 stars
My first reaction of this book:
OMG ITS A RETELLING OF SNOW WHITE?!?!
But it turns out it was just the name and new appearances that made it look like a remake if Snow White -sigh-.
Well, that was quite a book. I don't know what to say about it, except that in a mix of emotions, it's more confusion and relief than anything else... But by the epilogue, all of my questions were answered which was good, but I'm still questioning some of the characters... But hopefully in the sequel it will clear things up...
The story:
We have a girl named Lumikki, which means Snow White, but I just called her Lu, because her name is reaaaally long. Basically her life was completely normal, until she goes into the dark room of her school and finds a stash of wet, crimson-colored money. Thousands of Euros left to dry, splattered with someone’s blood.
Lu lives alone in a studio apartment far from her parents and the past she left behind. She transferred into a prestigious art school, and she’s singularly focused on studying and graduating. Lu ignores the cliques, the gossip, and the parties held by the school’s most popular and beautiful boys and girls.
Until she finds that money, she starts hanging out with the most popular girl Elisa, because somehow she is involved in this because of her father. It turns out Elisa never knew her father at all. He turned out to be a cheater, criminal, and evil person under the nice, police officer she knew.
There is a party, betrayal, shocking revelation, and death... But apart from all of that Lu still holds her ground and becomes he strong protagonist she was meant to be.
The only thing I probably didn't like was the fact that the author added so many unnecessary characters, and them never explained about them, so when they got their own POV, the reader turns out to be confused, and not understanding that part of the story, which could be important. Then the fact that there was a lot of mambo-Jambo speaking which made me mad because I couldn't understand that part of the story either. But at least I got the plot, and it turns out that THIS IS NOTHING LIKE SNOW WHITE!!!
What makes it like Snow White is Lu's name, and her new characteristics when she has to change her appearance since the bad guys ended up in jail and are out for her head now. Especially Polar Bear...
Oh and to add to that, Polar Bear was totally predictable, I knew what they were, but I didn't exactly know who it was.
So yeah... That's pretty much what happens, and what I was able to gather, all I know is that I'm considering reading the sequel, it's a maybe, seeing how this one turned out...
Posted by: (;Lucy Lala;)
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