BOOK REVIEW | RED QUEEN BY VICTORIA AVEYARD

Title: Red Queen

Author: Victoria Aveyard

Series: First in the Red Queen trilogy
Publisher: Orion
Format: Paperback ARC

Source: Publisher
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy/Dystopian
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What a book! There has been so much hype regarding this book all throughout the blogging and youtube community, so I was so excited when I got a copy for review!

The book is centred around the theme of inequality in a dystopian setting. There are people that have silver blood, who are the superiors who have all different kinds of powers and abilities, and then there’s the people with red blood, the commoners, the people who live in poverty. The reds have no powers or abilities except this one girl who finds herself working as a servant for the silvers and FOR ALL THE IMPORTANT SILVER PEOPLE TO SEE, ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS LIGHTNING OUT OF HER HANDS. UM.

Okay, the main character is honestly comparable to Katniss, with her being a catalyst for change and just in general being an all round kickbutt character. I just loved her.

The story itself was just so interesting! I love this kind of stuff with superhuman powers and such. There’s also a killer love triangle that is SO WELL DONE.

There’s such a wide array of characters in this book, it’s just fantastic.

As for the writing, for the most part it was great and I had absolutely no issue with it except for a bit at the start. It almost felt like I was struggling to picture the world the author was building and I almost felt like I had to create the majority of it in my head, but this got better as the book went on,

I DEFINITELY recommend this book when it comes out! THAT ENDING. OH MAN. YOU NEED TO GO AND PRE-ORDER THIS RIGHT NOW.

Plot: ★★★★★

Characters: ★★★★★

Writing: ★★★★.5

Romance/Feels: ★★★★.5
Ending: ★★★★★
Overall Enjoyment: ★★★★.5
Rereadability: Definitely!

Final Rating:  4.75 stars