RED QUEEN

By Victoria Aveyard

This story follows Mare, a red, in a world of silvers with powers and abilities not seen in the red society. Except she now has these powers which is impossible for a red to have. She must now be front a centre in a world she knows nothing about while terrorist acts go on around her. Her choices could change the world she lives in.
I wasn't overly impressed by this book. I flew through it and it was enjoyable but it wasn't different. Maybe if I hadn't already read Hunger games, Matched, Divergent I would have enjoyed it more. However, that's not to say I didn't enjoy the read.

I'll tell you what I did enjoy and that was the one twist I didn't see coming. Shade is alive. Maybe it should be a given if you don't read the death then you should be suspicious but I was shocked. I thought Mare and her brother would have the same powers but I liked they were different from the silvers and that the powers in family trees could change. I found the writing style comfortable to read and flowed very well. I really liked Mare and thought her character has so much potential in books to come and it's pretty obvious she will end up with Cal and that the next book will start another love triangle. The word building was interesting with Aveyard's world of red and silvers using the idea of hierarchy and inequality as the backbone of this story.

I'm kinda sad Mare didn't end up with Maven just so the book could be different from the rest. I knew as soon as the line "anyone can betray anyone" that Maven was going to be that anyone. Wouldn't it have been a shock though if Maven freed his brother and Mare in the last chapter and turned on his own mother. Like most dystopian books it's usually the first boy outside of the protagonists world that she will end up with and that seems to be where these books are heading. I will probably read the books to come just because it was quite interesting but I wont be in a rush to get the next book