If you like to read about paranormal creatures, then Quite Contrary will be a treat for you, because we will visit viking myths, fairyland, city or iron and yellow smoke, hitchhiking urban legends, New Orleans and much more. Little Red Riding Hood by sanguisGelidus, pacman23 & entdroid And that's how constant switches of ambient, characters and never-dropping tension will begin as Mary runs for her own life.
While Wolf expects from Mary to run (the thrill is in the chase after all) I bet he didn't expect that Mary will run from that fairy tale into another. Wolf declares his undying love for Mary and desire to nibble on her young flesh (or take a much bigger bite), but 'not in a way that would offend prudish minds'. Dark blue eyes watched me with confident intelligence." The body was a wolf's, dirty gray and big. "That voice wrapped you in honey and velvet, deep and rich and passionate like an old time blues singer's. With his cheesy lines and deep voice that was how I imagined this 'hairy murderous Casanova' sounded. The rest of the teens maybe planned to scare or trap Mary, but Mary keeps stubbornly crawling forward and soon slips from our reality into another dimension and ends up in a forest.īy changing from her filthy clothes into Red Riding Hood outfit, Mary triggers that fairy tale and attracts attention of big bad Wolf. This will prove to be just the first in a row of 'brilliant' decisions made by Mary.
Quite Contrary starts with Mary going to a Halloween party (although her mother forbid her of course) and then Mary accepts a dare to crawl into a underground tunnel in an old deserted house. Mary Stuart, our heroine, is quite contrary twelve-year-old girl in other words stubborn, pig-headed and usually does opposite of what is good for her. Richard Roberts merged a lot of known and unknown tales, myths and urban legends into an unique story.
Maybe for the Wolf to be a good guy for a change? Be warned - this is not going to happen īut if you start reading Quite Contrary expecting a simply fairy tale retelling you will be very surprised (just like I was), because Richard Roberts did something much better. I expected a darker retelling and hoped for some unusual twist. One glance at the cover of Quite Contrary is enough to give you a hint that it's somehow related to a fairy tale of Red Riding Hood.
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