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Title: Silver Wolf (The Sworn Saga #2)
Author: Kate Avery Ellison
Format: Epub
Rating: 4.9/5
Status: Finished
Reading Date: January 5, 2020
Book Summary: The long-awaited sequel to RED RIDER, a post-apocalyptic werewolf retelling of Red Riding Hood.

Meredith Rider, known as Red, has been captured once more by Sworn soldiers and taken to the capital of the werewolf empire. There, she is forced to train with a group of other captive girls in the arts and graces of the Chosen, the unlucky human girls whose DNA is compatible with that of werewolves.

In other words--breeders.

Red isn't about have babies for the enemy. She's going to escape or die trying.

And her conflicted feelings for the darkly handsome, cruelly cunning Vixor Rae, the Sworn champion of the Alpha who goes by the nickname Silver Wolf, are only going to get in her way.
Book Review: I don't know how I missed this second book in the series but I was happy when I came across it.

This novel pretty much picks up where the last one has left off. Meredith Rider has come to the Capital and is placed in a Handmaid'e Tale place where her name is stripped off, her beloved cloak is taken from her, and she becomes nothing more than a number. The only way to get up is to work her way up but Meredith is no mood to do so. She does everything possible to not allow them to change her but this ends up causing her to be punished numerous times.

One day Meredith is allowed to leave and check out the Capital. As she does, she tries to find information on her mother. Unfortunately for Meredith, she finds herself being told that a Sworn member has decided to claim her. This causes to Meredith to run for it.

I don't want to give too much away but I will say this series is becoming rather interesting. There are moments where I wanted to slap Meredith especially when we see her thoughts on Kassian. I get it; he's not the same guy. He's now a member of the Sworn and even an elite member going by the Silver Wolf. I was getting tired of it. But this series is well worth picking up especially if you have read the first book.

Title: Red Rider (The Sworn Saga Book 1)
Author: Kate Avery Ellison
Format: Epub
Rating: 4.95/5
Status: Finished
Reading Date: February 20, 2019 to February 22, 2019
Book Summary: Werewolves. A human resistance. And a girl caught between two worlds.

Red Riding Hood meets The Handmaid’s Tale in this post-apocalyptic YA fairytale retelling!

In a land where a werewolf army called the Sworn rule over the humans and walking corpses called treecrawlers roam the wilderness between settlements, orphaned Red has a secret that she and her grandmother have been hiding for years. She’s one of the Chosen, the despised young women selected to bear children in the stead of barren female werewolves.

Red keeps her identifying mark hidden, and she doesn’t take advantage of the luxuries available to the future mothers of the Sworn. But her secret is discovered when she rescues her rebel boyfriend from execution for treason, and she can hide the truth no longer.

Red is intercepted by a dangerous young Sworn named Vixor Rae, a prince among the werewolves, and taken through the dangerous wilderness to serve her fate in the capital.

Vixor intrigues Red against her will, but he is her enemy, and she wants nothing more than to see him dead.

But when treecrawlers attack the Sworn caravan headed for the capital, and only Red and Vixor survive, the two must rely on each other to make it out of the perilous wilderness alive.
Book Review: Okay, Okay I actually found a book from the ya genre that I actually enjoyed. Time to rejoice!

Honestly I have been trying to stay away from Young Adult fiction because the last several novels have had whiny, "I-need-to-saved", one-dimensional female leads. And their male counterparts have been no different. Unfortunately lately all they have become is eye candy for the female readers and nothing more.

This book was entirely different. Set in a world where the Werewolves have pretty much rose to power and their Alpha has setted himself as the head of their government, humans have been living in relatively useful to the Werewolves. Several girls are often branded as Chosens, meaning these girls have the ability to produce Werewolves for the Sworn Army. Meredith Rider has become one of the Chosen. For the most part, Meredith and her family have been living quietly in their village. That is until one night on Meredith's birth when the Sworn, the Werewolf Army, has come to kill off her family with the exception of her grandmother. The two try to stay under the radar until one day, Meredith sets out on a mission to save one of her friends. When it is found that she is a member of the Chosen, she finds herself on her way to the city to be given to one of the Werewolves for breeding. She finds herself traveling with one of the most fiercest members of the Sworn, The Silver Wolf. But when they are attacked by Zombies called Treecrawlers, Vixor and Meredith must survive and find a way back to the city.

This book was a fun read. I enjoyed Meredith Rider. She was fleshed out and didn't have all those horrid qualities of the normal YA female lead. She was strong and did what she thought was always right despite the fact she knew she should be kept hidden from the world. And Vixor Rae was not your typical male counterpart. There was something to him that made him not only mysterious but also entertaining to read. I was truly impressed with this book.

I think the only downfall is that there is no explanation on how Treecrawlers came to be and how the Werewolves rose to power. All we are given is a bit of a vague background. So we the readers must mostly use the context clues given to us to determine what exactly happened.

Overall I really enjoyed this take on the Red Riding Hood story and I am quite looking forward to seeing how this finishes.