Sisters Red

Sisters Red, by Jackson Pearce, is a cross between a love story and a story of a girl obsessed.
     Scarlett March saved her sister from a vicious Fenris attack when they were children.  Now it's her goal to kill all of the Fenris so they can't tear anyone else's lives apart.  She also wants to move past the scars that mark her body and mangle her appearance and re-connect with her little sister and her partner.  Rosie March owes her sister her life, and because of that she feels complied to hunt Fenris with her sister.  Her sister made sure she was alive, the least she can do is make sure she helps her sister in every way possible, in her way of thinking.  She doesn't have time for a boyfriend. Silas, Scarlett's partner, has just come back from a stint in San Francisco and is getting back into the hunting game.  He's also noticing how little Rosie March has grown up while he's been gone.
       When the three overhear the Fenris discussing a Potential, a human male that has the potential to become a Fenris if only another Fenris bites him, they pick themselves up out of their small town and move to Atlanta to hunt the powerful clan Arrow and try to find and save the Potential before he becomes another one of their enemies.  But with Scarlett growing more determined and jealous, Rosie trying to break out of her shell, and Silas trying to encourage Rosie while supporting Scarlett will the three hunters be able to sort out their personal difficulties before the Potential is found and a shocking truth is revealed?

I didn't like this one as much.  Silas and Rosie don't spend much time doing anything interesting, and Scarlett's like a mad woman with a fever.  And the Fenris, or the were-wolves, aren't interesting at all.  They're just soulless, good looking predators.  Very boring.  Also, I saw the plot twist coming.  It was very obvious.  And not because I read the end of the book first, because I didn't this time.  
      Silas is supposed to be a 'woodsman,' like something out of Snow White or whatever fairy tale has a woodsman in it, but you don't really get that sense.  Sure, he build his own room out of wood.  Sure, he can wield an axe.  Sure, I get the sense that he's about as woodsy as my aunt -- and she showed up to go camping in white flip-flops. 
     You don't learn much about the March sister's childhood -- just the 'incident' that changed their whole lives.  Other than that, they are unique individuals.  They try to act like twins, but in truth they are not, and that is a truth they can't bear to face.  This is the effect that Jackson Pearce was going for, I believe, and I am very impressed with how it worked out.  Two perfectly conflicted sisters.  Very nice.
       You don't learn much about the back story of the Fenris, but you don't need too.  When you see the world through March sisters' eyes, all you need to know is how to kill them.  Even though nothing about the tribes of Fenris is explained you don't need it explained because it is all painfully simple.  It's nice to find a book which doesn't condescend to you because you don't know what the author is talking about.
     But Jackson Pearce is no Gina Damico, and even though I cried at the end of the book I do not love the characters as I love the population of Croak.  This book will be a one-time read, and I do not plan on entering the world of the Fenris again anytime.  But if you truly enjoyed Lisa Mantchev's Theatre Illuminata series (I call it the "Beatrice Shakespeare Smith Trilogy"), you will enjoy this book.  Romance, danger, were-wolves, and sibling conflict.  For most girls of this era, what's not to love?