Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)

by Victoria Aveyard

The gods rule us still. They have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind.

From now until the end of your days, you must lie. Your life depends on it, little lightning girl.

“I don’t think anything about me is normal anymore.”

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.

I’ve been working to fix that, waiting in the shadows of this monstrous world, waiting for my time to avenge her.”

I think you are the future. I think you are the new dawn.

“I know my brother. If it comes down to it, to saving your life or saving his crown, we both know what he will choose,” Maven fires back. “He would never choose me.”

“He will always choose you.”