Red By Big Pink (PG-13)

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Fandom: SUPERNATURAL
Pairing: Gen, action/adventure. Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester
Length: Novel
Author on LJ: big_pink
Author Website: Big Pink
Why this must be read:

“Red” is a horror story set in the cold and rain of the Pacific Northwest, in a milieu of loggers and tree-planters and tree-huggers, and the author writes as though she’s lived there and done all that. There’s a wolf of the supernatural variety killing tree-planters in the mountains. It’s the same wolf who in human form once prowled the urban landscape, preying upon desperate, poor children, including Dean.

This is a complex portrayal of Dean, and if you can’t get enough of Action!Sammy, this is the story for you. All the OC characterizations are excellent, notably that of the diner waitress who tries to save Young Dean from the predator. There’s a painful depiction of the hunger and poverty the boys endured as children. There’s Dean’s terrifying final confrontation with the wolf. There’s Sam pounding to the rescue armed with nothing but his knowledge of the Little Red Riding Hood tale. The way Young Dean takes care of Sam, and the way Adult Sam takes care of Dean, will get you all choked up. This is the kind of storytelling that sucked you into the show.

Kripke needs to buy “Red” and turn it into the 2-hour Supernatural movie, or at least publish it as a tie-in novel.

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