(It's packaged as a YA novel, with a brooding goth chick on the front. It's a damn shame the book is saddled with some of the worst, and most misleading, cover art I've seen in some time. The Red Tree is a very ambitious effort, an accomplished metafiction that is certainly horrific, but also stands as a piece of literature. I have admired Caitlin Kiernan's short stories for some time now, so I was excited about finally getting to one of her novels. The scene is set for some serious haunting and I loved this at first, but it kind of fizzled out towards the end. The only contact she keeps is her agent, who desperately needs for her to fulfill a contract that had already been extended once. To top it off, she is a writer who has nothing left to write. The relationship she had was not close to warm and loving, because she is incapable of empathy, not only for her lover, but for herself as well. The sad thing is you can't root for the heroine, because she's pretty much a terrible person.The type of jerk who believes crying is a sign of weakness.
Not really, everything about the house and the tree is malevolent from the start. She runs away from her girlfriend's death to a sweet, old house in New England with a beautiful ancient tree. The protagonist is actually a forty four year old woman whose lover has committed suicide. The current cover does not do the book justice, because the girl looks like an angst filled teen with romance problems.
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