Title: Red Queen (Book 1)
Author: Victoria Aveyard
Genre: Dystopian, Fantasy.
Publisher: HarperTeen
Format: Paperback/Hardcover
Release date: February 10, 2015
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...
Okay so, If you follow me on GoodReads, you probably have seen how much I loved this book. I wrote an review with all my hear just after finish the book, but now, here's a proper one.
Aveyard's writing style really cautivated me in a whole new level. And it is that at first, when I started, I was a bit skeptical about whether I would like it or not because my standards and my hype were at their highest levels. But Victoria Aveyard really left me breathless, speechless, and wishing for the sequel as I had never wished for a sequel in my entire life as a reader.
Victoria Aveyard leads us to an extraordinary story through their diligent narrative skills.
The story goes beyond a girl named Mare Barrow who suddenly finds herself amidst a chaos caused by a slip that has now endangered the whole system of a kingdom. It tells the story of the tenacity of people when they have reasonable grounds to fight the horrible feeling of betrayal and darkness that lies behind the power.
Her prose intrudes us in a world from which I came to feel part of it. I found myself crying while reading some chapter and then laughing. In moments the sadness of Mare, I cried with her. I did everything that I felt she was going through at that time.
The characters are a wonderful and fantastic part in this story. The tough yet so fragile Mare Barrow opened my eyes to see beyond people, always have one eye open and the other dreaming, to not lose hope and never give up.
Julian intelligent and shrewd, that more than one we can identify with him based on his passion and love for books, his ability to find beauty in the pages and in worlds as far to his, showing a superb skill and intelligence in truth I can only but praise it.
Maven was my favorite characters to a point; cuts, eloquent and flattering, but after certain events thus I came to hate, I can say he became a new Snow or Umbridge (you know what I mean) On the other side is Cal, who I loved completely. Personally, I do not usually get along too with the male characters, but Cal really made me feel an inexplicable connection. Because sometimes it is to have the weight of a lot about you, and carry us not attribute responsibilities.
This is way too much different to the other dystipian novels that I've read, because now the concepts of Dystopian and Fantasy, they now have a new meaning in this story and are so good complemented.
I bow to Victoria Aveyard and her tenacity, his courage and amazing narrative. And now, after reading the acknowledgments of the book, if I do nothing but get along with her, and realizing I relate with her in many ways. Without doubt, now is part of the people who inspire me.
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