3.5/5 
 This story follows Scarlet's search for her missing grandmother and continues Cinder's plot from the previous novel. The two story arcs work in tandem for a majority of the novel with POV's ranging from Scarlet, Cinder, Kai and Levana. 
 I enjoyed this story a lot more than Cinder, but it still wasn't great. The pacing was better and there was better execution with the writing. It is nice to see the author's writing maturing with the series. However, the structure of the story very closely mirrored that of the first novel which meant it was very easy to guess the plot twists and how the story would end. 
 The world building still needs a little more work. The reader still does not have very much information about Luna's society. I think that this will probably be focused upon more in the third novel. 
 The integration of the Little Red Ridinghood fairytale was minimal. I do think that it paired up about as well as Cinder did with Cinderella, which wasn't great, but wasn't bad. 
 As for the characters, I did like Scarlet and Wolf, but I felt like Cinder's plot pulled the story along. It's not that the sections with Scarlet were particularly uninteresting, but I felt like I was more invested in Cinder's plot since the previous novel focused upon her and her struggles. I still wanted more introspection into how Cinder views being a cyborg, but I do not think that this will ever happen since the author seems to want to place more focuses upon Cinder's abilities as a Lunar and her coming to terms with it. 
 I don't know what it is, but this series seems to be missing something for me. I am enjoying the books because I am a sucker for fairytale re-tellings, but I just want more. Maybe more suspense or action or politics. I think maybe I am missing the introspective aspects of the characters. I think a lot of the interactions are a little superficial, which is fine, but I want them to be questioning the structure of their world a little more. I want them to not be complacent within the systems that created the problems in the society to start off with. I guess I want more rebellion beyond just trying to escape where the characters are actively trying to change the problems within the world. Hopefully some of this occurs in the next installment in the series. I will be continuing on to read Cress.