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Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)

Victoria Aveyard

Start date: July 1, 2022

Finish date: July 31, 2022

Discussion: November 2025 Group Read

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Apr 11, 2015 Nadine in NY Jones rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, fantasy-and-sci-fi, dystopian-and-post-apocalyptic, everyone-loved-it-except-me

“Say nothing. Hear nothing. Speak to no one, for they will not speak to you.”

This. Was. So. Bad.

First person present tense!! Smirking anti-hero!!! Tell-don't-show!!!!! Continuous info-dump!!!!!! It's the Quadfecta of Badness!!!!!!!! I pledged to myself to give it 90 pages to get better.

So here's a thought experiment: what if the oppressors in the Hunger Games were X-men, who had powers similar to the characters in Percy Jackson? What if these X-men held their own gladiator contests among th ...more

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Sep 09, 2015 Stacia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: owned-read, audiobook, epic-fantasy, young-adult

A really enjoyable read! I'm a great fan of young adult dystopian novels, and Red Queen is no exception. Unfortunately, that means comparisons must be made. I think Red Queen stands fairly well as its own book, but it does use many of the common tropes of today's dystopian novels. I don't think it's as strong as Hunger Games, but it is better than Divergent.

The system of magic is novel. The main character is empathetic and strong. There is romance, but not too much. I'm intrigued by the world V ...more

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Aug 13, 2018 Megan BG rated it liked it

A bit predictable. Held my attention, but the story was just ok to me. I will attempt at least the next one in the series.

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Apr 23, 2015 Kassie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Red Queen was very predictable. It was easy to see what was going to happen. The names were ridiculous too, but that's to be expected in YA novels lately. Even though the book didn't surprise me at all I did enjoy it. I found myself staying up late to finish it. ...more

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