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Red Queen
Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
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July 12, 2015
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July 31, 2015
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Kirsten
Jan 04, 2016 rated it really liked it
I really enjoyed this YA dystopian sci-fi with people with superpowers. We never get into what really happened to make the world this way or where this is. Though I do get the impression that it is set in a future Europe.

The characters are not that engaging, but the situations and plot kept me turning the pages. Definitely want to read more books set in this world.
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Angie Taylor
Dec 02, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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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Amanda
Aug 31, 2015 rated it really liked it
Shelves: young-adult, 4-stars
I was so very pleased to pick this book up after deciding to leave off on The Scorch Trials right in the middle of itself. I very much ended up liking this book, even though I did figure out the hard, surprise twist by about 50-75% of book, because in my head there was only one big betrayal that could happen to the character that would derail where the novel had been leading.

I do like the stratification displayed in both the Reds, and then the slow revealing of it in the Silvers. I'm curious ab ...more
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Jen Ifer's Inklings
Oct 23, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: audio-books, library, read-in-2015, popsugar-2015-reading-challenge, 5-star-reads
I've read other reviews that stated this was a combination of The Selection meets The Hunger Games. I can see the similarities in the two. It certainly has caught my attention and I can't wait to see what the next installment holds. ...more
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Noblet
Aug 17, 2015 marked it as to-read
Soelo
Sep 10, 2015 marked it as to-read-series-new
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Christy
Dec 03, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Jan 28, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Karen D
Mar 04, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Jul 30, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Sarah
Jan 20, 2017 marked it as wishlist-series  ·  review of another edition
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Mar 24, 2017 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
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Slynne
Aug 06, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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