Red Queen (Red Queen, #1) in Pop Sugar's Annual Ultimate Reading Challenge

Dec 04, 2015 Kelly rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: cover-me-blue, 2-star, sci-fi-fantasy, teen-ya, what-s-the-big-deal, dystopian

Write an action-packed thriller: Check.
Be "inspired" by other YA series like The Selection and The X-Men: Check.
Create unique and rich characters: Nope, not at all.
Hold my interest enough to purchase Book 2 of the Trilogy: Fail.

Red Queen was a disappointment. The storyline is a Frankenstein of a plot, with elements of [The Selection] (Queenstrial, anyone?; the relationship between Mare, her Prince Cal and hometown love interest Kilorn is pretty similar to America, Prince Maxon and Aspen), Mar ...more

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Jul 24, 2016 ☼Shannon☼ rated it liked it

Shelves: fluff, 3-stars, own-physical, pop-sugar-challenge-selection

I picked this up thinking this was another The Hunger Games or Divergent (liked the former, hated the latter), I was wrong. If you want to compare you could say its like the second book in both series, but its stretching it. This isn't a girl running around trying to do some trial, this is a girl thrown into the middle of something.

I have a hard time following action (funny story about that, but I'll save it for another day) so I'm not that into action stories. This story has action. Because of ...more

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May 16, 2016 Katie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2015, read-2016

4/5

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Jun 22, 2017 Aryka rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Can't believe it took me this long to read this book! It was excellent, and such a quick read, started it yesterday afternoon and finished this morning.

The story of course meets the YA fantasy troupe of lather, rinse, repeat storylines, but that hasn't ever bothered me when the book is well written and the story is told in a great way. ...more

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