Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

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4 stars

I am so ready for summer vacation. I think I have hit my threshold for making lunches. Well I think I have hit my threshold for making dinners too. I am just done. Making menus week in and week out is very stressful. You need to make sure that the food is healthy and that everyone will eat it. It also has to fit into the time schedules, some nights get busy earlier than others. And right now, I don't feel like doing prep work or anything. I just want the food to magically appear. I think if I could have some magical power it would be that. With a snap of my fingers a healthy delicious meal would just appear. Now that would be awesome.

Synopsis

Enter a world divided into Silvers and Reds. Silvers are an elite life form, their blood is silver and they have special capabilities. They rule the roost. The reds are subserviant slaves. Their lives have little meaning to the silvers except for their man power.

When Mare becomes a servant in the royal court, she realizes that despite her red blood she has special powers too. When found out she becomes a pawn in the King's arsenal, but also a secret help to the red rebellion.

My Thoughts

I really did enjoy this book. With the YA genre, you never know what you are going to get, is it going to be too sappy or too predictable, or too ridiculous. This book was great. It kept me on my toes. It had a lot of twists and turns. I thought it was going a certain way and then it totally changed.

I did find the main character to be a bit obtuse. Seriously how blind and naive can you be! There was definitely some head smacking at some points.

The author has quite a few neat ideas. The different colour of blood is very interesting. It makes it so no one can hide who they truly are. The different Silver Houses with their different powers was also really cool.

The revelation at the end, totally called it at the beginning.

Some negative things I have heard about this book is that it is similar to other books. I have never read the ones that the commenters were talking about so I don't know if it is or not. However, I still really enjoyed this book.

This is the first of a trilogy and I am looking forward to how this all plays out. Now I just have to wait for the next one to be published. Let the count down begin.