Audio Review: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood—those with red and those with silver. Mare and her family are lowly Reds, destined to serve the Silver elite whose supernatural abilities make them nearly gods. Mare steals what she can to help her family survive, but when her best friend is conscripted into the army she gambles everything to win his freedom. A twist of fate leads her to the royal palace itself, where, in front of the king and all his nobles, she discovers a power of her own—an ability she didn't know she had. Except . . . her blood is Red.
To hide this impossibility, the king forces her into the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. As Mare is drawn further into the Silver world, she risks her new position to aid the Scarlet Guard—the leaders of a Red rebellion. Her actions put into motion a deadly and violent dance, pitting prince against prince—and Mare against her own heart.
This is a lesson that Mare Molly Barrow learned well. Throuought all this book I listened how Mare sacrificed all she was and all she believed in to help her family and friends. How she fell deeply and inexorably deeper into a world she knows nothing about and how she learned a painful truth that not everything is as it seems and you can't trust anyone.
It had me at the edge of my seat with all the twists and unexpected turns that the story took. When I thought I'd figured things out there went Aveyard and threw a wrench in my logic and disrupted all the world again.
I didn't give it a 5 stars rating because there were a couple things that didn't agree with me. First is that I had a hard time understanding the book at first, second is that some things were left in the air and last but probably not least is that sometimes I had trouble with the narration since I don't like first person POV.
That being said I can't wait to delve into the next book to see what else the clever Victoria Aveyard comes up with for this group of misfits!
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