OliveTree’s Reviews > Red Queen > Status Update

Plot keeps stumbling along, one foot after another. I guess you could call it "intimate" but its excruciating. More ground is covered than the first book but much less happens. Alice is as pitiful and sympathetic as ever, while she does at least attempt to grow a spine. VERY little tries to rhyme with the source material anymore. Hatcher has spent a fair portion of the story disposed of -- I really hope he dies.

more compelling than the first book, but I can definitely sense a lull coming on. There's a significant lack of brutalized women and sleazbags threatening to rape our protagonist, which I think is probably the source of this improved readability. To be fair there are also virtually no side characters characters in the story so far. Only one secondary character has been introduced. LOTS of Hatcher. I hope he dies

Okay, stop: how can I already have a problem with this book.

well the ebooks table of contents divides the entire book into TWO ENORMOUS CHAPTERS. I understand that the print version probably has none at all, but is this a joke???

Also so far the writing is considerably worse than the first book.