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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  ladyperte | Jun 22, 2009 |  I think the fairytales we know as children are something that we can never really tire of. I also love the little adaptations and twists that authors write using these fairytales as their base. I've actually read a few from this series of books, and loved Gregory Maguire's books as well. This particular story is based on Little Red Riding Hood. In many ways it's a lot darker, a lot more bloody, and more romance. It's a more grown up LIttle Red Riding Hood and easy to read anyways. Finished it all in a sitting. I love these little novels in this series. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to read something of a well-known fairytale but a whole new plot that gives it that new edge and fun. (  ) calexis | Dec 10, 2008 | Interesting twist on the Fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood. I like that the wolf turned out to be the nice guy. ( ) meyben | Jun 6, 2007 | This is a retelling of "Little Red Riding Hood", and its neat to read. The characterizations are not strong, but an effort was made, and the love story moves way too fast, it has some strong points and is interesting just for the subject material. It also includes a lot of the heavy sexual innuendo of the original tale, so I wouldn't give this to the under-14 crowd. One warning: the ending comes at you a mile away. Still, it's a fun twist on the old tale and worth picking up to peruse. (  ) CornerDemon | Jan 25, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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Ruth's grandmother lives in the forest, banished there for the "evil" that the townsfolk believed she practiced. But if studying the stars, learning about nature, and dreaming of flying is evil, then Ruth is guilty of it too. Whenever Ruth took food and supplies to her grandmother, she would sit with the old woman for hours, listening and learning.
When she wasn't in the woods, Ruth was learning the trade of her father, a blacksmith, now that her brother would never return from the Crusades.
Amidst those dark days, a new man enters Ruth's life. William is a noble with a hot temper and a bad name, and he makes her shiver. But the young man is prey to his heritage, a curse placed on his family ages ago, and each male of the family has strange blood running in his veins. Now Ruth must come face-to-face with his destiny at Grandma's house
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It was the first of the "Once Upon A Time..." series that I really enjoyed. I thought all of the characters were strongly developed, and it almost reminded me of Phantom of the Opera. (