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    Red Queen
    Red Queen
    Red Queen
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    Red Queen

    Written by Victoria Aveyard

    Narrated by Amanda Dolan

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    The #1 New York Times bestselling series!

    Red Queen, by #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Aveyard, is a sweeping tale of power, intrigue, and betrayal, perfect for fans of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series.

    Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood—those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own.

    To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. As Mare is drawn further into the Silver world, she risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard—a growing Red rebellion—even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction.

    One wrong move can lead to her death, but in the dangerous game she plays, the only certainty is betrayal.

    Discover more wonders in the world of Red Queen with Broken Throne: A Red Queen Collection, a companion novel with stories from fan favorites and new voices, featuring never-before-seen maps, flags, bonus scenes, journal entries, and much more exclusive content!

    Plus don't miss Realm Breaker! Irresistibly action-packed and full of lethal surprises, this stunning fantasy series from Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Queen series, begins where hope is lost and asks: When the heroes have fallen, who will take up the sword?

    Editor's Note

    Anyone can betray anyone...

    Mare Barrow has red blood but Silver powers, threatening to destroy the basis of the unjust social caste system with her unwavering strength and wit. A deft debut that blends the best of fantasy and dystopian tropes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 10, 2015
    ISBN9780062346513
    Author

    Victoria Aveyard

    Victoria Aveyard was born and raised in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, a small town known only for the worst traffic rotary in the continental United States. She moved to Los Angeles to earn a BFA in screenwriting at the University of Southern California. She currently splits her time between the East and West coasts. As an author and screenwriter, she uses her career as an excuse to read too many books and watch too many movies. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Red Queen series, and you can visit her online at www.victoriaaveyard.com.

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    • 5/5
      Loved it!

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    • 5/5
      I loved this book!!!!? I didn't see this ending!!

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    • 5/5
      Thought it would be stereotypical story but I really enjoyed it. Narrator was great also!

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    • 5/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed this and cannot wait for the next!

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    • 5/5
      Kept you on your toes and the twisted ending was worth the wait
    • 5/5
      Just a thorough rollicking good ride. Completely new arc where Blood types tell all.
      Imagine a world where your caste is based on the color of your blood.

      Would you thrive or would you hide to survive and what if hiding wasn't possible.

      In a 2024 world, this book makes you think while still enjoying the story.
      We are currently a world of the Have and the Have-Nots.
      How can we survive our better and worse nature is prevalent throughout the book.

      I turned around and promptly purchased the next in this series.

      Please note for full transparency I purchased this book as an audiobook and it was exceptionally narrated.

      You can buy this one with full confidence.
    • 3/5
      DNF. I struggled with it. I will not continue the series. It felt boring. it took me several times get past some chapters.
    • 5/5
      Excellent storytelling. Like Hunger Games meets the Giver.
    • 4/5
      It was quite the adventure, it is a mix between hunger games and throw in some unique abilities and the selection.
    • 4/5
      Lots of plot twists that I actually did not see coming. Plus a world that was a bit too much at first, but I got wrapped up into it, and enjoyed it!
    • 5/5
      Very good Young Adult book. It felt like a dystopian x-men. She's very selfish as far as relationships go. She knows and understands that she's loved by one guy, even has a stronger feeling with one yet claims to love the other. Um ok. Other than that I'm looking forward to the next book.
    • 3/5
      The audiobook narration of this book may not have helped my overall opinion of this book. I found the narrator's tone while reading the book to be sarcastic, which made the protagonist of the story sound a bit obnoxious. Also, the narrator's male voices made them all sound somewhat dumb, slow and difficult to tell which male character was speaking. That being said, I like the beginning of this book and the interactions between Mare and her family. Once the story starts to take place in the palace, I felt the story began to drag and the interactions between Mare and the other characters were uneventful and stereotypical. All the characters came across as one dimensional and flat. I didn't care for any of the guys in the love square and I found the small plot twist a bit predictable. However, at about chapter 22, the story picked up speed and the action was entertaining. This book wasn't great but it wasn't horrible either; there is definitely a lot of room for improvement, particularly regarding character development.
    • 4/5
      Good story and written well. It can be a little predictable and it reads as a young adult novel. But the themes are there and it's not too cliche for a good read. Definitely worth while if you're just cleaning the house or on a long drive!
    • 5/5
      Couldn't stop listening! Loved the book from start to finish!
    • 5/5
      Loved this book. I have listened to it several times now.
    • 4/5
      RED QUEEN is a well-written epic fantasy. I enjoyed the characters and the setting. This fantasy world has two kinds of people - silver bloods and red bloods. Mare Barrow is a Red who starts the story as a thief trying to survive and help her family in a world where Reds are the equivalent of slaves to the Silvers. Her three older brothers have been conscripted into the army to fight a war that has been going on for more than 100 years. She faces conscription herself if she doesn't have a job by the time she's 18. Her good friend Kilorn seemed safe. He was apprenticed to a fisherman until his master died and left him jobless.Mare is determined to get Kilorn and herself out and contacts smugglers who are part of a secret Red Guard who are attempting to overthrow the Silvers. When Mare meets Cal one evening, her life changes. Cal, who turns out to be the Silver Crown Prince, gets her a job serving in the King's summer home. An accident there reveals that Mare has psychic powers like the Silvers and changes her life forever. She gets involved in the complex rivalries of the various Silvers and gets involved in the Red Guard too.This story has romance. She first admires Cal and then hates him as their politics tear them apart. She is betrothed to Cal's younger brother Maven and the two become united in overthrowing the Silvers. But there are dangers and betrayals and heartbreak. The pacing was fast and the action constant in this fantasy. While I had some questions about the various psychic powers that the Silvers had, I thought the world building was well done.I look forward to reading more books in this series. I want to see how this world and these characters develop.
    • 2/5
      Christine from Polandsbananasbooks ranted that mentioning that there is a plot twist in a book is a spoiler. After reading this, I agree with her. Jessethereader had said there was a plot twist, Polandsbananasbooks said that knowing there is a twist makes you try to guess what it is. I correctly guessed two of the twists: I knew that Maven was trying to take the throne, and I knew that Shade was alive. I have to say I was disappointed (even if unsurprised) by Maven's betrayal. Maybe it's for the same reason so many others have been disappointed in this book; it has so many similarities to other books. I don't even know which ones. None come to mind. The first half seemed very unique and unusual, but as it went on, everything started to look familiar. I really wish that Maven had not been a villain. Even though I already knew he would betray Mare, I still thought that he was the only interesting one of the love interests. He could see that Mare had a crush on Cal, yet still, he seemed as though he fell in love with her. He was overlooked, weaker, sadder. He wanted attention, but he was kind. Except for that he wasn't. He was a love interest that was actually interesting. His being a villain ruined everything. Cal is boring. He has power, he's strong, he fell in love with the main character the moment he saw her, she immediately fell for him. He is the love interest that (except for Hunger Games) the main character usually ends up with at the end of the series. I hope not. He's not very interesting as a character, or a love interest. I wish that Mare hadn't had her case of love at first sight with him. I wish she would have kept her heart to herself. It was interesting to see her falling for Maven. We already knew that she would fall for Cal, from the moment he let her go after he caught her pickpocketing him, we knew she'd fall for him. I knew he was a silver the moment that happened. I knew he was the prince.

      Besides the two brothers, there is one other potential love interest. Kilorn. He is the Gale of the series, except for that he's actually nice. He seems to have some jealousy of Mare's other potential love interests, and he gets angry about it, but he isn't nearly such a whiney brat as Gale was. It doesn't seem like Mare views him as a love interest, which is sad because, with Maven as a villain, Kilorn is the other love interest who I actually found interesting. It would be unusual for the best friend of the love triangle to get the girl in the end, and, while Kilorn isn't super interesting right now, he has the potential to be, at least far more that Cal. Kilorn is vulnerable, frightened, protective of Mare, protected by Mare, frightened, weak, willing to work through that weakness to achieve something worthwhile, and he doesn't have a superpower to do so. We don't see much of him in this book,, but he has potential to be a much more interesting character than he is in this book, and to be far more interesting than most of the others. If Maven is irredeemable, then I want Mare to end up with Kilorn. It would at least be something less predictable than the rest of the book.

      There was also a glaringly obvious plot hole: Either King Tiberius and Queen Elara (and the Silver Court) is extremely stupid or in this world, girls don't get periods anymore. Even in the extremely unlikely case that Mare had grown up (in the difficult life of a red, no less) without ever scraping her knee, don't you think that the silvers would have wondered why she didn't figure out she was 'silver' when she started her period. So yeah, the king and queen's story about her being an almost eighteen-year-old silver who was raised by reds and never knew she was a silver until she fell into the electricity shield is one that would not, could not, work to explain her having powers as a red. I mean, I can understand how the men would fall for it since they don't have to deal with periods, and even I took a couple of days after completing this book to think about it, but come on, you can't expect that all of the women in the silver court wouldn't have once in all the time Mare was at court considered that when Mare started her period she would have noticed the color of her blood. My original rating was three stars because, yeah, I did like the book, even if it wasn't exceptional because Aveyard has a really good writing style, but my discovery of this little absurdity was enough to lower my rating to two stars.

      If the characters had been more interesting. If I hadn't guessed the twists. If the only interesting character hadn't turned into an uninteresting villain, if there wasn't a plot whole... This book almost could have been four or even five stars for me, but there were too many disappointments.

      Victoria Aveyard has a wonderful writing style and interesting world building, though there could have been a lot more of it. Most of her characters, while not necessarily interesting, are at least likeable. The only area where her writing really suffers is lack of creativity in characters and plot. I plan to continue reading Aveyard's books, though hopefully she will learn how to be more creative and unusual.
    • 5/5
      Such a great read!! Always kept me on my toes.
    • 4/5
      Predictable as heck, but fun to read! I am excited to continue the series.
    • 4/5
      So if you are looking for a romance this story is for you. I was shocked at how much teen angst and romance there was in this book. Nevertheless there were some pretty good twists and turns throughout the story brought you through a range of emotions as I suppose good stories should. Overall this was a good story and I would recommend it. The primary character has this very crucial character change once the events of the story took place. I particularly didn’t like how irrational the thought process was for many of the characters there is a clear allusion to systematic privilege and racism mixed with sci-fi, you end up not being well situated to the setting itself, is this the future? An alternate world? What created these disparities? Instead we get increasingly sinister characters to the point of confusion between just what side is good and just what side is evil, it’s like evil versus more evil or bad versus evil. The author wastes words on overall poor character feelings that she burns to the ground at the end. Overall interesting between three and 54 stars but definitely not five.
    • 4/5
      A good YA read. It had a Hunger Games vibe to it, which I like, and I good story line. I look forward to reading the remaining the the series.
    • 5/5
      This is definitely my new favorite book - it's so interesting yet heartbreaking and it will destroy you more than any book has shattered your mind before. Amazing plot twist, it's a number one must read. Love it, love it, love it.
    • 4/5
      Started slow, but now I’m dying to know what happens next!! Just ordered the next book in the series!!
    • 5/5
      One of my favorite books to date. I couldn’t put it down. Mare is a badass and the love triangle is written really well and interestingly. It’s been a while since I last read this but it’s definitely worth reading the whole series
    • 3/5
      This review is coming from someone who once loved dystopian YA stories but now has come to a sad realization that there are no original stories anymore this book to me was a mix of Hunger Games (which I loved) and Mortal Instruments (which I hated)
    • 3/5
      Good story, but there were some pieces that simply didn’t make sense to me, especially when it comes to people’s powers and what they did/did not do while fighting.
    • 3/5
      Interesting but still can't say I love it but I will continue the series.
    • 3/5
      I like the book, but the narrator sounds like she is spitting when she is talking.
    • 5/5
      ahhh this book was amazing! so excited for the rest of the series!!
    • 4/5
      Love this book and can't wait to read the next one.