Review: Scarlet Woods
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 10, 2012
Scarlet Woods is the first book in a new series by Brooke Passmore. It's about a seventeen year old girl named Morgan who finds a door in the woods behind her house. It's just a strange, random door that doesn't seem to be attached to anything. She walks through the door, not knowing that she travels back through time to the year 1863. She ends up running into a guy named Danny in the woods. Morgan needs Danny's help so she follows Danny through the woods and finds that her hometown of Scarlet looks completely different.This book has a lot of funny moments. For a period of time during the book, they don't know that they are from different time periods. Of course, since the way people act in present day is so drastically different from the way people acted in the 1800's - Danny thinks Morgan is weird and vice versa. However, it doesn't stop them from feeling an attraction for each other. Unfortunately, Danny is engaged to be married.The author did a great job of expressing the character's feelings, but I just felt like the book jumped around too much from character to character. It got a little confusing to me. Also, the book just seemed really long. Things were really drawn out. This really is a great love story, you just have to be patient with the characters.With this taking place in the Civil War era, there is a lot of interesting history involved. The plot was great, and this is a very unique story. I was kind of sad at how the story ended. I'm really curious about what will take place in the next book.