Review: LITTLE RED RIDING HOODIE by John Python Jr.

 

Sally is a 6^th grader that has not yet matured. She always wore a red hoodie, making the other kids call her Little Red Riding Hoodie. She’s never had a high self-esteem, always believing she was ugly. There was no way she’d get cast as Juliet in the school play. Her home life wasn’t much better with having to deal with a drunk father, an absentee mother, and a little brother. Someone had to take care of everyone.

When she surprisingly gets the role of Juliet, she thinks everything will be fine—the kids would respect her, her mom would come home, her dad would stop drinking, and her life will just be perfect. It’s strange how she was having nightmares of dogs chasing her.

I thought her story was interesting, but sometimes it deviates into dry banalities. And what’s up with the dreams? Was she going to turn warrior and fight some evil? With the direction that this was going, it just didn’t seem likely. Sometime the plain narrative is just too freaking long. You reach half way through the book and it’s nothing but the same old preliminaries.

This started off good, but it totally fell flat.

 

My rating: 2 stars