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Today I am part of the Black Tide book tour for The Red Trilogy by Paul Kane.
Book Title: Red, Blood Red & Deep Red
Author: Paul Kane
My Rating: 4*
Publisher: HellBound Books Publishing
Genre: Horror
Format Read: E-book
Blurb: Evil takes on many forms – something Rachael Daniels, an innocent care worker, is about to find out… personally.
Something is roaming the streets of the city where she lives, something monstrous with a taste for sweet, red, human blood.
Something that can be anything it wants to be.
Soon, Rachael learns the hard way that not even the friendliest faces can be trusted.
As she makes her way across that city one night on an errand of mercy, she quickly discovers the terrifying creature will definitely have no such consideration for her…
Together in one book for the very first time ever, the RED trilogy is a modern, urban reworking of a classic fairy tale, which puts the horror spin on an old favourite.
Blood RED picks up straight away after the events of RED, the first installment, while Deep RED throws you into a nightmarish future scenario. If you dare to open these pages, you’ll face a terrifying journey into the unknown – courtesy of award-winning and #1 bestselling author, Paul Kane (the sellout Hooded Man, Monsters, Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell, & Before).
My Review
The Red trilogy offers readers a horror filled, twisted take on the Red Riding Hood fairy tale with a lot more blood, gore and fear.
The first book is a short novella that begins with Rachael Daniels, a carer who is looking after an old lady. One day when she is on her way to work, weird things start to happen. Rachael is attacked by... a human? A big dog? A wolf? These wolves are a lot different as they are able to shape shift into humans and change faces which makes their prey a lot more vulnerable and there are a lot more surprises to come! There is a lot of killing and gory blood imagery throughout as Kane sets a new and updated lore of wolves that is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat.
The second book introduces 4 new characters who are a group of wolf hunters trying to save the human race and stop the wolves from taking over and the third book offers us an apocalyptic setting which brings the surviving characters all together for one last battle for a climactic ending!
Each book adds new characters to the series but they are all connected in some way which really adds to the complexity of the books. The chapters are also shared between many of the characters' POV which adds yet another layer to the series and gives the reader more backstory and insight to the motives and thoughts of certain characters. There are also flashbacks which tie into the fairy tale and all these aspects come together to create a brilliant trilogy that you won't want to put down.
Red is an exciting, gruesome trilogy that turns the fairy tale on its head and provides readers with a dark and scary series that will leave you hungry for another bite.
Purchase the book on Amazon here.
About the Author
Paul Kane is an award-winning (including the British Fantasy Society’s Legends of FantasyCon Award), bestselling writer and editor based in Derbyshire, UK.
He is a former Special Publications Editor of the British Fantasy Society, has served as co-chair for the UK arm of the Horror Writers Association, and was co-chair of ChillerCon UK 2022 in Scarborough.
Paul’s work has been optioned for film and television, and his zombie story Dead Time was turned into an episode of the Lionsgate/NBC TV series Fear Itself, adapted by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) and directed by Darren Lynn Bousman (SAW II-IV and Spiral).
His non-fiction books include The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy, Voices in the Dark and Shadow Writer – The Non-Fiction. Vol. 1: Reviews and Vol. 2: Articles and Essays, plus his genre journalism has appeared in the likes of SFX, Fangoria, Dreamwatch, Gorezone and Rue Morgue. He also co-wrote the afterword to the latest edition of Stephen King’s Night Shift collection. He has been a Guest at Alt. Fiction five times, was a Guest at the first SFX Weekender, at Thought Bubble in 2011, Derbyshire Literary Festival and Off the Shelf in 2012, Monster Mash and Event Horizon in 2013, Edge-Lit in 2014, HorrorCon, HorrorFest and Grimm Up North in 2015, The Dublin Ghost Story Festival and Sledge-Lit in 2016, IMATS Olympia and Celluloid Screams in 2017, Black Library Live (Warhammer 40k) and The UK Ghost Story Festival in 2019, delivered the keynote speech at the 2021 WordCrafter conference, as well as being a panellist at FantasyCon and the World Fantasy Convention, and a fiction judge at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival.
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