Title: Red QueenSeries: (Red Queen Trilogy #1)
Author: Victoria Aveyard
Genre: Young Adult, Dystopia, Fnatasy
Publication Date: February 10th 2015
Format: ebook
Graceling meets The Selection in debut novelist Victoria Aveyard's sweeping tale of seventeen-year-old Mare, a common girl whose once-latent magical power draws her into the dangerous intrigue of the king's palace. Will her power save her or condemn her?
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.
"Graceling meets The Selection in debut novelist Victoria Aveyard's sweeping tale of ..."
I was sold at Graceling to be honest, since Graceling is one of my favorite books. But when I saw The Selection, I just thought why would anyone want to compare their fantasy book to the Selection? And I just let it go because I've been seeing a lot of books being compared to the selection recently and just brushed it off as bad marketing.
It was not.
When I completed half of this book I realized how accurate that comparing was. And I'm not talking about Graceling.
This book was too similar to other stories, it was basically multiple books mashed in one. But The Selection was the biggest part and I just could not handle how cliche some things were! It was too predictable and Mare was very annoying.
For fuck's sake! Her name is Mare! EVEN THE NAME IS LIKE THE SELECTION I CANNOT.
And it wasn't even hyped when I started reading it, which is really frustrating.
I know some people feel the same way about this book, but could go through it because it had a lot of action.
Um, nope.
I skimmed through the dialogue for the last 7 chapters. which is 70% of the book. I just could not read it any longer.
All that being said, I think on its own, without the influence of other books, it's a great book, and I can see why people like this, but I just can't. I can't
Character Thoughts:
Mare was too naive and stupid, even though I thought I loved her at the beginning.
Cal was just an asshole.
Maven was just... there.
Evangeline was your basic Regina George.
Love Triangle was a thing, obviously. Ugh.
Overall, I just had a very hard time getting through this book an it felt like a mix of everything bad in every good story so I don't like.
I wouldn't have hated it if it wasn't for the hype that came after I read it. I just can't.
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