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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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Sep 10, 2017 Cathie rated it did not like it

Shelves: 2017-reads, young-adult, dystopia, paranormal-supernatural, fantasy, romance, magic, 2015-releases, series-ly, readers-tops

DNF. I tried; I really did. Same young rebellions story told in a future time where the good (this case the REDS) must bring down the bad, those in power. (Why is the "bad" always those who are in power?)

Throw in a kick-ass heroine, a prince who our kick-ass thought was just a nice country boy, and the instant awareness that said KAH has a power that might just make her belong to the enemy side and not a true RED.

Story has been done better, before, I'm sure.

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Jan 22, 2018 Monica Shastri rated it really liked it

Shelves: young-adult, fantasy

“I am finally learning my lesson. Anyone can betray anyone.”
So well explained...
“I can’t believe I didn’t see him for what he was from the beginning: a wolf in sheep’s clothing. And now I’m the sheep pretending to be a wolf.”
That's what you get when you trust someone. Damn

"The truth doesn't matter. It only matters what the people believe"
This hit me so hard. ...more

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Nov 03, 2015 Celeste rated it really liked it

Shelves: fun, hot-alpha-males, teenagers, y-a-book, romance, did-not-see-that-coming, liked-it, interesting-read, fantasy, blah-main-character

That plot twist though...

Also I totally heart Maven, even if he has a stupid name that reminds me of a color and sounds like it should belong to the fairer sex.

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