For the record, I did not like the "Red Riding Hood" movie. I thought it was a clumsy, boring affair aimed solely at the shrieking tween "Twilightophile" audiences, with too much hair gel, bland acting and chemistry-free romance. 
 But I decided to judge the "Red Riding Hood" novelization on its own merits. Sometimes a mediocre or even bad movie can produce a really well-written novelization, which compensates for the movie's defects. Unfortunately, this novelization is awful in every way -- Sarah Blakley-Cartwright's writing is colorful but incredibly clumsy and sophomoric... and the book has NO ENDING. 
 You pretty much know the drill here -- Valerie is a girl in a small village somewhere, and she wants to dump her blacksmith suitor Henry in favor of sexy woodcutter Peter. But then her sister is killed by the Big Bad Wolf, which turns out to be a werewolf who threatens to kill everyone in the village unless Valerie comes away from him. Is the werewolf Peter? Who close to Valerie is a monstrous beast? 
 Well, you don't find out in THIS novelization, because it has NO ENDING. The story simply grinds to a halt before the climax, followed by a page saying: "Is this truly the end of Valerie's story? Visit [...] to find out!" 
 In other words, customers just paid full price for 95% of a book, with the final 5% being the ENDING. Apparently the film company thought that the Epic Plot Twist at the end was so brilliant that they couldn't bear to give it away, but they didn't want to lose out on all those book sales in the preceding weeks. So they just blatantly ripped off the customers. Classy. 
 As for the writing... well, first-time novelist Sarah Blakley-Cartwright has some promise as a writer. She has some colorful, atmospheric prose sprinkled throughout the story, and she does try to flesh out the characters. 
 Unfortunately, it's obvious that she's still very raw and untried as a writer -- some of the dialogue is just cringeworthy ("You're like a tough-girl china-doll"), and her descriptions are often no better ("He was a magician, and he had faith in the magical"). And her efforts to flesh out the characters are just embarrassing, such as when Valerie internally snipes at Henry for having nice shoes when other people are poor. 
 Take an author who needs more seasoning and add her to a novel which is a blatant attempt to rip off the buyer, and you have... "Red Riding Hood." Avoid at all costs, at least until they put out an edition with the whole story.