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So, as already mentioned, Sweetly is a retelling of Grimm's fairytale Hansel and Gretel. But - just like Sisters Red - packed with fenris / werewolves. The main characters are the siblings Ansel and Gretchen, whose sister was taken by a witch at a young age and after that their parents died of grief. After their stepmother throws them out, they take the car to go to the shore. On their way, the car crashes down near the small town of Live Oak. They find shelter in the house of Sophia Kelly, the local candiemaker.

While Ansel starts falling in love with Sophia, Gretchen turns to local outcast Samuel Reynolds, who shows her that the witch who took her sister was a fenris and teaches her how to shoot them.

But Sophia has a dark secret and Gretchen has to find out what haunts the kind woman...

I just finished reading and wow, that was ... thrilling! My mother wasn't allowed to talk to me for the last hour and I forgot to drink something all day. The cover art, again, is totally stunning. The first half of the book is quite funny, at least as funny as a story about two cast-out-run-away-siblings can be. The second half, when Gretchen starts to practice shooting, gets really suspense-packed. The end is haunting and as evil the fenris are, the things a human mind can endure are stunning. (I recommend watching Torchwood episode "Countrycide".)

Sidenote:

Sooo... Samuel Reynolds, huh? Will we get to meet another one of the brothers in Fathomless? Should be fun if everything comes together in the end. Something like, in the final book, when Jackson has run out of fairy tales (and brothers) all of them come back to Ellison for one last big battle?

Laugh of the day:

"The first stoplight we see is simply flashing yellow, and Jed coasts through it."

For further laugh, please watch this...

~  Lilith ~