A new fairytale is introduced with Little Red Ridding Hood in our new heroine (and my personal favorite of the girls), Scarlet. Scarlet is a french red-haired heroine with balls of solid steel and a sharp tongue, she's decisive, brave, no nonsense and a natural leader. Scarlet's grandmother has been missing and she teams up with Wolf, a street-fighter to try to find those who have kidnapped her. Their journey takes them by train into Paris but meanwhile Cinder who has now escaped jail with none other than Captain Cardswell Thorne, an American deserter with a Casanovian demeanor, are launching an investigation into Cinder's past. Where did she come from, who helped her and this leads her straight into the path of Scarlet and Wolf. Then last 100 or so pages of this novel are FANTASTIC. It was a slow start but still solid. You still have Cinder and Kai by the perfect addition of Scarlet, Wolf and Thorne make this a perfect middle-book for this series.