I absolutely adore Little Red Riding Hood retellings, especially when the wolf is the MMC! I’ll take the morally-grey wolf, you can keep the virtuous huntsman 😈

This was such a unique romantasy that I gobbled up in less than a day; I couldn’t help it, I wanted to see our FMC grow stronger (✅), our MMC send more flirtatious smirks her way (✅), and how they were going to solve the problem of the Mist (✅)!

I also enjoyed seeing some other fairy tales entwined in this book, namely Jack and the Beanstalk.

Here are some of the goodies to expect:
🐺Little Red Riding Hood Retelling
🐺Witch x Shifter Romance
🐺Enemies-to-Lovers
🐺Forced Proximity
🐺Found Family
🐺Mild spice

My overall rating: 3.5 stars

Hunted By Wolves and Shadow is part of the Enemies Ever After series, a collection of standalone short novels featuring enemies-to-lovers fairy tale retellings with a touch of steam. Each book is written by a different author and the books can be read in any order! See the full series at this link: www.enemieseverafter.com

Thank you to NetGalley and Jo Holloway for the opportunity to read this book. The opinions expressed above are honest and my own.

Three and a half
Honestly I thought initially that this was going to be the most predictable, boring paranormal romance and yet absolutely not ! This went in directions I didn’t expect and totally both surprised and delighted me . If blunt I found the central couple as much irritating as I found them fun but I think that’s partly what made this different . A new author to me but one who entertained me and that’s a definite recommendation
This voluntary take is of a copy I requested from NetGalley and my thoughts and comments are honest and I believe fair

Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

As part of a ten book series of fairy tale retellings, this one was the better of the two out of ten so far that I've read. The writing style is competent, and it does do some interesting things with it's very fast and loose interpretation of Red Riding Hood. She's not really Red, she's green, technically. There's some weird force called The Mist that keeps people trapped in the forest. The Big Bad Wolf is a tortured man-wolf thing. A witchcraft system based on gemstones. There's 2 really nice full color illustrations, along with black and white chapter headers that were very pretty. Kinda cool, right?

However, I really just....there's so many ACOTAR clones out there to pick through if Sarah J Maas's series left you hungry for more fairy tale adult romances. Being just okay is okay, and to be totally fair this is the first one that I know of with Red Riding Hood (albeit very. very. very loosely adapted). I think for the right person, this one is totally fine, but it just didn't "do it" for me.