Red Queen (2015)
Red Queen is a 2015 fiction book written by Victoria Aveyard.
Blood tells you everything in Mare Barrow's world. Reds like her scrape by as servants and soldiers; Silvers rule from above, their veins carrying powers that read as divine. Mare is a seventeen-year-old thief from a poor village called the Stilts, resigned to a future of conscription, until a chance at the royal palace exposes an ability she should not have. Caught between the Silver court and a rising rebellion, she learns that anyone can betray anyone. Victoria Aveyard opens her bestselling YA series with palace intrigue, class fury and a heroine playing a dangerous double game.
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What is Red Queen about?
Blood tells you everything in Mare Barrow's world. Reds like her scrape by as servants and soldiers; Silvers rule from above, their veins carrying powers that read as divine. Mare is a seventeen-year-old thief from a poor village called the Stilts, resigned to a future of conscription, until a chance at the royal palace exposes an ability she should not have. Caught between the Silver court and a rising rebellion, she learns that anyone can betray anyone. Victoria Aveyard opens her bestselling YA series with palace intrigue, class fury and a heroine playing a dangerous double game.
When was Red Queen published?
Red Queen was published on 12 February 2015.
Who made Red Queen?
Red Queen was written by Victoria Aveyard.
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A few thoughts on Red Queen
The obvious next stops are on screen. The Hunger Games captures the same arena of a poor girl thrust before a ruling class that wants her performing. X-Men supplies the superpowered class allegory beneath the Silver and Red divide. For more palace intrigue with a rebel heroine playing a double game, the film Divergent runs close.
Class systems built on manufactured ability, and the rebellion trying to break them
Red Queen splits its world into disposable Reds and god-touched Silvers, and Mare starts on the losing side. Divergent and The Hunger Games sort people into factions and Districts built to keep the lucky few on top, The Giver and Uglies show what that sorting looks like once nobody questions it, and The Maze Runner traps its kids inside a system built by people they never see.
A poor girl smuggled into a palace of political knives
Mare gets dragged from a village called the Stilts straight into the Silver royal court, and has to learn its rules to survive them. The Selection and Throne of Glass both drop outsider heroines into a palace built on performance and threat, A Court of Thorns and Roses and The Cruel Prince send mortal women into treacherous Fae courts, and Caraval turns court intrigue into a game nobody explains.