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Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)

Victoria Aveyard

Start date: July 12, 2015

Finish date: July 31, 2015

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Feb 16, 2021 Susan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Another book I'm surprised by why it took me so long to read. I have had this book for a long time and yet I never seem to pick it up. I like to form my own opinion on books a lot of people dislike and others love. Sometime the dislikes sway me as to how fast I am to pick up that book. I think that's what happened with this book. I loved it so much and I'm so excited for the rest of this series.

The magic in this book kind of reminds me of The Grisha and how one person may control fire, metal, w ...more

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Jun 05, 2021 Dareth McKenna rated it liked it · review of another edition

Ok so a lot of reviews have already been written by people who had the same reaction I did to this book. So I’m not going to go into a lot of detail.

I read it for our book club and I’m not sure I’d have bothered finishing it if it weren’t for that. I interrupted my reading of another series to take time out for this book club book and the whole time I kept wishing I would be done with this so I could get back to the other things I was reading.

I do not identify with Mare... she’s self absorbed ...more

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