The Red Queen
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Fantasy · Romance · Action
The best book I have ever read!
When I say it is the best book I have ever read, I definitely mean it. I just can’t get over it. It’s been 5 years, and I believe I will never find a book I will like this much. It has action, romance, and fantasy—everything I am looking for in a book.
In the book, the world is divided into two according to their blood: red and silver. People with silver blood have superpowers. People with red blood are just humans. However, it turns out not everything is black and white; there are people like Mare, a red-blooded human with superpowers.
I love how independent Mare is. The way she knows her goals and works for them. She is not the perfect heroine, but she tries to get the best out of her issues.
I feel like the last fantasy books I have read went too overboard with the fantasy concept. The plot is difficult to follow, or they wasted all their ideas on the first book and wrote the following books without the same energy or intention. Nevertheless, “The Red Queen” and its following books are gold. They are interesting until the last sentence, and the way you get into the story is amazing.
Go and get the book! You will love it!
The plot
This is a world divided by blood—red or silver.
The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change.
That is until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace. Here, surrounded by the people she hates the most, Mare discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy the balance of power.
Fearful of Mare’s potential, the Silvers hide her in plain view, declaring her a long-lost Silver princess, now engaged to a Silver prince. Despite knowing that one misstep would mean her death, Mare works silently to help the Red Guard, a militant resistance group, and bring down the Silver regime.
But this is a world of betrayal and lies, and Mare has entered a dangerous dance—Reds against Silvers, prince against prince, and Mare against her own heart.
After “The Red Queen,” Victoria Aveeyard wrote three other books: “Glass Sword,” “King’s Cage,” and “War Storm.” I don’t think I have to say that you must read them as well. It will most definitely become your favorite saga.
