Red Queen

No cover — Victoria Aveyard: Red Queen (2015, Orion Publishing Group, Limited)

320 pages

English language

Published Feb. 19, 2015 by Orion Publishing Group, Limited.

ISBN:: 978-1-4091-5117-3

(1 review)

Mare is a Red blood, a mere thief in a poor village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court where she discovers she has a supernatural ability of her own, so to cover up this impossibility the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess, but Mare risks everything to help the growing Red rebellion.

14 editions

Nomad Scry reviewed Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard (Red Queen)

4 stars

While this one is still a "special boy/girl" sci-fantasy, I did like the constant edging of foreshadowing betrayal immediately followed by descriptions of how nice a character is. In fact, when a significant betrayal did come, I didn't believe it and more than halfway expect to find it reversed later on the series. The ratio of fantasy to sci-fi felt weird to me but I couldn't say why.

Subjects

Children's fiction
Fantasy fiction
Princesses, fiction