#The Girl In Red

[sulsulesbian]

happy pride 👹

[the-king-and-the-druidess]

“Join me,” Nimueh says and reaches out her hand as she has a dozen times in Morgana's dreams [the line dividing by woldy] @merlinrarepairfest

[thewitheredrose]

We fell in love in october

That's why, I love fall

[aroaessidhe]

a specific genre I call disabled girl (usually leg and/or facial scars) surviving mostly on her own in the wild/postapoc wasteland/dystopia with a distinctive jacket and weapon

I AM STILL ALIVE / a girl gets sent to live with her survivalist father in the Canadian wilderness, but when their cabin burns down she has to survive the winter

ARCHIVIST WASP / ghosthunter priestess from in a postapocalyptic cult helps a ghost find his friend so she can escape

THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN / traumatised teenage ex-assassin trying to live a normal life in a walled city run by assassin guilds

THE GIRL IN RED / a girl travelling to her grandmother’s house after being separated from her family in the apocalypse after a viral pandemic

RADIANT / TOWERS TRILOGY* / girl in the underbelly of a postapocalyptic dystopian world finds a powerful ghost and they're both hunted for their power

(*I actually can't quite remember if she's disabled or just injuried at various points, all the others are def disabled tho)

and none of them have romances :)

[princessmacabre]

Red Academia

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Christmas Haul, 2023 Edition!

I am forever and always asking for books for Christmas, and this is what I was gifted this year! (If you think you see me stacking my TBR based on my own writing projects.....yeah okay you do lmao.)

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

JOMP BPC - October 7th - Horror

Christina Henry is still my favourite horror novelist 🖤 I hope she releases something new soon, otherwise I might have to do some rereads

[shxpeshifterr]

Starting my spooky season tbr 🎃📚

[eya909]

Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Not I 😆 Today’s “dangerous” prompt was inspired by Little Red Ridding Hood & this really great reimagining of the fairytale called The Girl in Red 😏🐺🩸✨

[lilidawnonthemoon]

[sulsulesbian]

girl help I can't help making the puff sleeves of the girl in white and red bigger and bigger

[the-king-and-the-druidess]

“Morgana, come. Come to me...”

Morgana hears this soft voice calling her. At night, she descends into the caves under Camelot and sees her, a mysterious beautiful woman in red. "Who are you?"

"I am the one who will guide you along the path that is meant for you. Once I was known as Nimueh, The High Priestess Of The Old Religion. Do you want to know your destiny, Morgana? Do you want to discover magic in yourself?"

And Morgana cannot resist her smile and the dance of twilight shadows in Nimueh's blue eyes.

[aroaessidhe]

2022 reads // twitter thread   

 The Girl In Red

post-apocalyptic horror set after a viral pandemic, about a girl travelling to her grandmother’s house after being separated from her family

surviving against the elements & groups of violent men

disabled bi protagonist, no romance

[princessmacabre]

day 1/100 of productivity

managed to

do some house cleaning

cook two healthy and delicious meals with my mum

finish reading ‘The Girl in Red’ by Christina Henry

organise my study work for April

complete 2 tasks (CW Task 1, ALA Task 1)

write an important email to my tutor

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE GIRL IN RED by Christina Henry.

We took a trip to Red River Gorge this weekend, and I both started and finished this book while we were there! It was a very speedy read.

While I did really enjoy the genre-savvy protag, I was expecting more Wolf Presence in a Little Red Riding Hood retelling, either literally or metaphorically (I mean, come on, look at that cover??). There were a couple references to (metaphorical) wolves and one coyote-man comparison early on (also metaphorical), but it felt like the Wolf Motif mostly was dropped, which was an Interesting Choice™, given that the plot entire was Red walking through an apocalypse and the forest to her grandmother's house. (Yes, she really goes by Red, which is not her name--she just really likes her red outerwear.)

This was also much more ongoing-apocalypse than post-apocalypse, and said apocalypse is referred to in-book as "the Cough" (publication date: June 2019?? wild). Family Units are endangered and fall sick on page, be warned! In addition to the Cough, there's also quite a bit of gore (via both brutal axe murders (self defense) and chest bursting a la Alien (which is the in-book comparison lol--see "genre-savvy protag")(admittedly this chest bursting subplot did feel very What The Hell Is This Fresh Bullshit, and not exactly cohesive with the rest of the story...not sure why that's in there lmao)).

Again: Quick read! Not super complicated or twisty, but it was a nice simple read after making it through THE BITCH QUEEN CHRONICLES, and I'm glad I read it for my own LRRH retelling reasons.

[darkrynrealms]

The Girl In Red, Wicked Life Eerily Imitating Art - Stories To Survive

https://rynjohnstone.com/the-girl-in-red-wicked-life-eerily-imitating-art/

The Girl In Red by Christina Henry is a dark fantasy retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, published by Titan Books on the 18th of June 2019.

The Girl In Red follows a girl named Red who has found herself in something straight out of one of her books–an unknown disease spreading through countries causing a pandemic. Red is determined to make it to her Grandmother’s home, miles away from her family home. Red does her best to reason with her mother, father, and brother to travel across the country on foot to reach the secluded safety of her grandmother’s house. Fighting herself, family, strangers and an invisible disease which is killing most people who are caught in its claws, Red makes the journey that can either save her or kill her along the way.