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The Red Chronicles
I wasn't supposed to fall in love with a werewolf, but he wasn't supposed to break my heart.
But he did, and I can either wallow in misery for the rest of my life, or accept that being named after Little Red doesn't mean I have to remake all her mistakes. There's a world out there that doesn't know anything about fated mates, ancient vampire bloodlines, or hoods who magically control silver and have a permanent stick up their butts. (Or at least, the ones in my family do.) A world where I'm not constantly harangued by my mother to finally become the "wolf watcher" I was born to be and assume my rightful place at her side.
And it's a world I'm growing to love, with its quirky humans, awesome Thai dumplings, and total lack of lupines... until the night an English werewolf shows up out of the blue and saves my life. All Tobias Somfield wants in return is a little help to track down some vampires. Only, what we discover when we do opens up our eyes to an entirely different kind of destiny. One that was laid down centuries ago when a warrior in a red hood and the alpha werewolf who loved her betrayed their own kind, creating enemies across the entire supernatural world in the process.
Or was that really what happened at all, and will the truth, once revealed, save us or lead to our doom?
And can we find some great kebabs some where along the way?
The Red Chronicles is a mythpunked urban fantasy series spiked with comedy, mystery, and yes, a little romance along the way. Fur up and fly along!
But he did, and I can either wallow in misery for the rest of my life, or accept that being named after Little Red doesn't mean I have to remake all her mistakes. There's a world out there that doesn't know anything about fated mates, ancient vampire bloodlines, or hoods who magically control silver and have a permanent stick up their butts. (Or at least, the ones in my family do.) A world where I'm not constantly harangued by my mother to finally become the "wolf watcher" I was born to be and assume my rightful place at her side.
And it's a world I'm growing to love, with its quirky humans, awesome Thai dumplings, and total lack of lupines... until the night an English werewolf shows up out of the blue and saves my life. All Tobias Somfield wants in return is a little help to track down some vampires. Only, what we discover when we do opens up our eyes to an entirely different kind of destiny. One that was laid down centuries ago when a warrior in a red hood and the alpha werewolf who loved her betrayed their own kind, creating enemies across the entire supernatural world in the process.
Or was that really what happened at all, and will the truth, once revealed, save us or lead to our doom?
And can we find some great kebabs some where along the way?
The Red Chronicles is a mythpunked urban fantasy series spiked with comedy, mystery, and yes, a little romance along the way. Fur up and fly along!
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1242 pages, ebook
First published May 1, 2020
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January 12, 2022
Great Series
Complete storyline ends in book 5. But each individual book has a full adventure, with no horrible dangling cliffhanger. But it does take all 5 books to complete their revenge and escape the evil of the bad guy. I really like how the bad guy is portrayed, quite skillfully, to be very bad but also so you feel at times a sympathy for him. I also like how in the beginning the heroine is almost estranged from her mother, but over the 5 books we learn why the Red Matron was so harsh with her only daughter. And we learn to admire the Red Matron's strength and character, while acknowledging her oft times cruelty. The characters in this series were very well developed.
Complete storyline ends in book 5. But each individual book has a full adventure, with no horrible dangling cliffhanger. But it does take all 5 books to complete their revenge and escape the evil of the bad guy. I really like how the bad guy is portrayed, quite skillfully, to be very bad but also so you feel at times a sympathy for him. I also like how in the beginning the heroine is almost estranged from her mother, but over the 5 books we learn why the Red Matron was so harsh with her only daughter. And we learn to admire the Red Matron's strength and character, while acknowledging her oft times cruelty. The characters in this series were very well developed.
January 21, 2021
The first three books of this series were awesome. The fourth started the decline with lack of sexual tension, forced pairings, and lack of editing. This fifth book is not worth reading. It's not edited, the characters' personalities change, and there are plot rifts. I really wish I'd dropped the series at Book Three and left the cliffhanger indefinitely. It would have been better than continuing.
October 21, 2020
Such a clever story of werewolves, Hoods, Vampires and vampire hunters. A mythology that is clever and a story that builds to a satisfying conclusion.
I love the way what you have heard and read before is either accepted as lore or torn apart as cliche whilst creating an amazing world of supernatural species with quirky abilities.
Definitely worth a read!
I love the way what you have heard and read before is either accepted as lore or torn apart as cliche whilst creating an amazing world of supernatural species with quirky abilities.
Definitely worth a read!
October 27, 2021
Excellent
I thoroughly enjoyed this compendium and especially liked being able to read all of the books from beginning to the end. The Chronicles have an interesting plot with exciting, multidimensional characters. Highly recommend it.
I thoroughly enjoyed this compendium and especially liked being able to read all of the books from beginning to the end. The Chronicles have an interesting plot with exciting, multidimensional characters. Highly recommend it.
February 3, 2021
Too much repetition. Not for me. Perhaps it will be better for readers that love only Vampire/Werewolf Urban Fantasy books. It's a lot of wolves and vampires for the money.
March 5, 2022
This series unexpectedly drew me in from start to finish. Gerwalta Kline (I'm probably spelling that one wrong, but I listened to the audiobook), is a descendant of Red-Riding Hood, not the little girl who went to visit her grandmother in the woods like our fairy tales suggest, but a young woman who was a part of a supernatural matriarchal society of werewolf watchers. The Hoods, the name to which they are referred, were created as a means to balance the world of wolves. A balance free to either defend or defeat the wolves whenever required. The most important rule the Hoods have in their society is to never mix with their charges. Gerri runs away after her mother contrives to have Gerri's boyfriend, Cody, mate another wolf instead of continue his relationship with Gerri. In response, she flees, heartbroken and alone, to Chicago for college among humans. It's there, in the aftermath, that the story and the most pivotal moment in Gerri's life begins.
The mythology Kendrai Meeks create in Red Chronicles is absolutely compelling. There really isn't a person alive who has not heard the tale of Little Red Riding Hood. For Meeks to give significance to the most memorable element of that centuries old story is ingenious. She makes the hood the watchers uniform, and uses color as a means of signifying the houses from which each Hood line originates. I have not read such a smart and engaging fairy tale retelling ever, maybe, and I read a lot of them. It is one thing to tell a story from the perspective of the villain or move the set of a story to a more modern environment, but it is a new thing all together to take a story that is trite and cliché and make it feel new, to make the audience feel like they have been missing out all along.
As for drawbacks, it took intense listening sessions to finish this series. I think it could have benefitted from being tightened into one big book. The overall action seems too drawn out at times, and some of the middle battles could have easily been merged into one. Still, it's worth the read.
The mythology Kendrai Meeks create in Red Chronicles is absolutely compelling. There really isn't a person alive who has not heard the tale of Little Red Riding Hood. For Meeks to give significance to the most memorable element of that centuries old story is ingenious. She makes the hood the watchers uniform, and uses color as a means of signifying the houses from which each Hood line originates. I have not read such a smart and engaging fairy tale retelling ever, maybe, and I read a lot of them. It is one thing to tell a story from the perspective of the villain or move the set of a story to a more modern environment, but it is a new thing all together to take a story that is trite and cliché and make it feel new, to make the audience feel like they have been missing out all along.
As for drawbacks, it took intense listening sessions to finish this series. I think it could have benefitted from being tightened into one big book. The overall action seems too drawn out at times, and some of the middle battles could have easily been merged into one. Still, it's worth the read.
June 5, 2023
Ok so I’m on the fence on this one….
Pros: it’s a good story that keeps the attention most of the time. Character development was great, world building great…
Cons: Very low on the spice level. This is at most PG 13. The history lessons on each sup was repeated so many times it got ridiculous. The last book was the worst. There were several things everyone already knew yet they acted surprised when things happened. For example (slight spoiler) when Red calls the wolves in the end, her mom acted all shocked like she didn’t know what was happening then surprised her daughter could do what she did. Yet that was the whole reason in book one that cause the drama between red and her mom. The behavior was off. There were several events in the last book that just pissed me off. Red acted outside what her normal character should have been. They changed the rules on so many things it just got confusing and annoying. I get it was written for drama but there were too many contradictions both with behaviors and story lines.
First few books were great… went down hill towards the end but I wanted to finish it.
Pros: it’s a good story that keeps the attention most of the time. Character development was great, world building great…
Cons: Very low on the spice level. This is at most PG 13. The history lessons on each sup was repeated so many times it got ridiculous. The last book was the worst. There were several things everyone already knew yet they acted surprised when things happened. For example (slight spoiler) when Red calls the wolves in the end, her mom acted all shocked like she didn’t know what was happening then surprised her daughter could do what she did. Yet that was the whole reason in book one that cause the drama between red and her mom. The behavior was off. There were several events in the last book that just pissed me off. Red acted outside what her normal character should have been. They changed the rules on so many things it just got confusing and annoying. I get it was written for drama but there were too many contradictions both with behaviors and story lines.
First few books were great… went down hill towards the end but I wanted to finish it.
May 4, 2022
Very good series… Hope there’s more to come!
I thought it was a very good storyline! Lots of twists and turns! I hope there’s more! Funny the twists life takes you on!
I thought it was a very good storyline! Lots of twists and turns! I hope there’s more! Funny the twists life takes you on!
February 13, 2023
A great series, full of love, hate, fight and survival.
A great read with action and laughter...as well as sadness and pain.
A good series
4.7 stars
A great read with action and laughter...as well as sadness and pain.
A good series
4.7 stars
November 10, 2023
I quite enjoyed this series. It was entertaining, kept me interested, and I enjoyed the characters.
December 19, 2023
Fun and original series
There was a little angst, which is usually more YA, but overall this was a fun series with an interesting twist on an old fairy tale. I really liked it.
There was a little angst, which is usually more YA, but overall this was a fun series with an interesting twist on an old fairy tale. I really liked it.
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