Review: Big Bad Wolfe and Red.... Fantastic!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2014
4.5 Sexually Charged FairyTale Stars * * * *Most of us growing up had some type fairy tales read to us...they were ways to impart lessons... written long ago by those who thought they knew best. I don't need to list them all but in this tale by Ella James, there is the structure of Little Red Ridinghood and the Big Bad Wolf.... and boy, oh boy, does Ella work it.We find our modern day Red in a pickle.... she is living in Boston; recently lost her newspaper position writing about the Arts. Her boyfriend left her with the $2,200. rent for her to cover on her own. She has sold almost everything she owns, applied everywhere for work and is at the point of figuring out if the weather in Florida is conducive for sleeping under the docks. During a drunken spurt of woe is me, she finally writes an email to her long lost Pulitzer Prize Winner Poet grandmother... the one that was estranged from her mom. Red had been crafting emails but never sending them since her mother's death. But just like drunk dialing or texting.... when the fingers get a mind of their own... nothing stops them from hitting that send key.Red thinks maybe in her drunken state, sending the email wasn't such a bad idea after all... she really hasn't anything to lose... so she pursues the correct address to send a letter to Gertrude and low and behold, in the last days of poverty...she receives a deposit of cash in her account and email with one word on it from Grandma.... COME.This changes everything... Red can stay in her apartment, buy a used car and learn about the one living relative she has.... things are changing for her.She goes to the location of the dock where she will finally get to meet her Grandma. Gertrude lives on an island off of South Carolina and the only way to get there is by boat. As she anticipates the meeting scanning the dock, she notices a talk man coming towards her. His face is in the shadow from the baseball cap, yet there is something about it which is captivating. He calls out to her and she is hesitant.This is where our story becomes very interesting, indeed. You see the man is actually infamous... he was accused of killing his girlfriend. It was a huge scandal but he was acquitted and disappeared from the public eye. It was a huge to-do... and Red had just seen the Dateline type of expose only a few weeks ago. His name is James Wolfe and when he disappeared, he ended up living with "Trudie", her Grandma. She, unfortunately, recently passed away leaving him the island.....but there is a hitch... and he needs Red's help in order to keep his home...Gertrude's island.This is a delicious tale of the Big Bad Wolfe... Ms. James does things which caused me to utter No!What!OMG!..out loud... the way she just made it hot and frantic... then also left me with concerns for what was going to happen next worked...Please Ms. James... do not make us wait too long....