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Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)

Victoria Aveyard

Start date: April 1, 2016

Finish date: April 30, 2016

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Dec 02, 2015 Angie Taylor rated it really liked it

I liked this story, I really did. But I didn't love it. I think it was because the storyline felt a little too similar to a combination of a bunch of stories like: The Hunger Games, Through The Never Sky, An Ember in The Ashes, etc. I loved those stories because they were so original and stood on their own. But the Red Queen felt like a tweaked story of other good books. The writing was good enough. But I felt like the details were rushed at times and I wasn't able to get an emotional picture of ...more

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Jul 30, 2016 Shan ~A~ rated it liked it

Shelves: 1st-in-series, audio, sci-fi, young-adult, fantasy, dystopian

I was writing a review and then my browser crashed, so instead of going through all of that again I will just express the following:

Mare, a Red with no powers, finds herself having to pose as the thing she despises: A Silver.
She finds out, in front of crowd, that although she is a Red, she does indeed have powers. Powers that in all of her 17 years she didn't know existed. So the King decides that she will have to pose as a long lost silver who was raised by the Reds.

Anyway, she didn't have man ...more

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Aug 31, 2015 J. Lynn Else rated it liked it · review of another edition

2.5 stars

I read "Red Rising" this year, and I was not a huge fan. This book is extremely similar but has an X-Men-like, mid-evil setting twist to it. Yet its SO similar to "Red Rising" right off the bat. How similar, you ask? Let me borrow from a fellow reviewer who very succinctly laid it out:

Red Rising
- MC's (main character's) name is Darrow
- Caste society
- Low caste is Red
- MC is a Red
- High caste is Gold
- They have god-like powers
- MC infiltrates their ranks
- MC is key to the rebellion

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