Red Queen is the first book that Aveyard has published, and as of now there are two more series to it. The book is a young adult fantasy novel that tells a story about Mare Barrow’s journey to implement equality into her world. Her world is divided by blood; red bloods and silver bloods. The book was written by Victoria Aveyard and was published in February 2015. The book was titled Red Queen, representing Mare, who has a red blood. Looking at the title seems like the main character will be throned queen at some point. The whole book is like riding a roller coaster, it was surprisingly full of twists. So anyone with red blood could be the queen.
Based on my research, Victoria Aveyard started writing at a young age. In acknowledgements section of her book it stated that she would turn in novels for her essays in high school. Red Queen was finished after college. Her manager sent Red Queen New Leaf Literary. Which changed her path and landed with a publisher called Pouya Shabazian. This book is popular amongst teens in high school. It has even featured on the school library top picks.
The first scene of the book opens the reader to her world, where the lower class people
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live. She talked about how hard the people strive with everyday life, and describing how hard it was for her to see her brothers get taken away by the silver bloods to go and fight at the war that isn’t even theirs. Basically, red does not have the best life to live. Due to extreme poverty, she had no choice but to steal from the people in the crowded plaza along with her friend Kilorn. Kilorn is the son of a deceased fisherman while his mother took away after the notice that her husband died. Since then, he was alone but he grew up with Mare. Mare guided Kilorn when they were young until now. They would go to the arenas and watch the show that is run by the silver government. The show represents as a reminder to red bloods that silvers are higher than them. The show is a fight between a silver and a silver. It was held to showcase the strength of silvers. Overall, the first chapter was mostly to set the levels of red bloods to the reader and introduce the key idea—which is power—in Mare’s world, their status is the reflection of their blood. Throughout the chapter, Aveyard slowly states the level of red bloods in the society. Starting by talking about the unfair systems that they have during war. Only red bloods were all lined up in the front row as if they were used as baits. The book took place in an island to island. People used boats to maneuver to each one. Most of the reds live in Norta while most of the silvers live in another island, supposedly to show that silvers are better and higher so they cannot live in slums like reds. Other silvers live in another far away island where the silver royals lived. Overall, I think the settings of the book seems underdeveloped because not many information about it was said. However, it was said that there's hi-technology in the story so I was confused about the timeline of the story too. I hoped that the author gave more information regarding to where the story took place. The values of the people in the society goes by is mostly that red should always serve the silvers. Reds either serve the silver blooded or ship of the fight a war. The silvers are the most powerful because of their abilities; like telekinesis, water, and mind controlling. Therefore they have higher status in the society. Maven was influenced by the society to do bad things. From the start he was always casted aside because of his brother. Cal didn't really liked the idea of the unfair systems that they held in their kingdoms. However, with a society built with two divided opinion is making him hard to fully follow what he thinks is right. Meanwhile, Mare doesn't even have second thoughts. She hated silvers for everything they had taken from reds. As she sees the society in which her people dies for other people's war hurts her the most. The lesson that I learned from this book was that you cannot trust anyone. The same lesson that Mare acquire from the happenings when she realized that even Maven used her. The person that she's been with almost all of the time has only been there because he was using her to get information about the rebellion. I learned that even the closest person to you can betray you. It tells me to not let my guard down and get fooled by anyone because people can be very unexpectable. Another lesson that I learned was to not discriminate. This issue is connected to the reality. African American were treated poorly like the red blooded people. Discriminating can make other people feel low or lose self esteem other build anger inside them which can cause a great destruction like the Scarlet guard. Based on one of the lines in the book, I think the reason why red and silver bloods are divided because long years ago the angels and gods lived in the sky ruling Earth with loving and kind hands, but people took advantage of the Gods and they became mad. Now the Gods rule us still they had come down from the stars however, they are no longer kind. This being said was also my favorite quote in this book. I liked how it truly make sense even in reality. The key idea and theme of this book was bluntly laid out for the readers. It was really easy to identify as it was repeated throughout the book. As it was quoted in the book, “Power is a dangerous game and anyone can betray anyone” was literally stated in the book. At the same time I hope that she could have made it more indirect so that my reading experience would have been more exciting. Mare had conflict internally; she wasn't sure who did she really liked between the brothers. She seems to entertain each of them. From time to time she also lies to herself that she is only using them, but still got hurt when she found out that Maven betrayed her. From the start, I thought Maven was suspicious. Many readers would have fell for the twist that the author was making, but I did not. I think the author put enough amount of foreshadowing throughout the book that Maven was actually one of the antagonist in this story. The quote was along the lines of “he is the son of the queen, he is like his mother” was repetitive. I think this stands as a foreshadowing that Maven is actually loyal to his mother. I thought that he was too good to be true. Turns out I was right. However, throughout his scheme his character developed love with Mare. The two became really close that's why towards the end of the book, Maven’s rage gradually faded for a short amount of time. He offered Mare help but she declined. I really liked the character of Mare because she wasn't blinded with all the flashy and luxurious things that was in the palace, instead she was disgusted by it. The romance was a good balance to the story. It distracted the reader to the main conflict. The thing that I didn't like was the love triangle that the author was trying to display. I was confused because there's the brothers and there's also Kilorn. It wasn't clearly laid in the book if there is really something between the each one of them. I personally liked the plot of the story but there were also some points that I didn't like. I didn't like how the scenarios were unrealistic. For example, I was confused because there was Maven, who was always so nice and the Queen, his mother, can read minds. With all the things that they're doing, it seemed unrealistic for them not to be caught. I know there is more book to this story but I just hope that she didn't leave too much information for the reader about the romance, the rebellion group and the characters because now all that is there is fragments of pieces of scenarios. I felt like the author focused more in the theme and motif. Which was the social structure of the society in the story. By that she kinda left the main character, Mare underdeveloped. The story plot made me remember the book Hunger Games and Divergent.
The book Hunger Games was similar to this book because of how it had the Capitol people who lived almost exactly like the silver blooded. Like silvers, Capitol people are rich and fancy people, who governs the society. Meanwhile Divergent was parallel to this book because of the plot where the status of people is reflected by the color of blood. In Divergent, the people were selected and divided by their blood. It was identified in the ceremony they do when a person reached the certain age. Both of the book used the plot were they identifies the status of a person by blood. The similarities of the Hunger Games and Divergent was that in both of the book, there were rebellion trying to turn the tables against the
rulers. The book inspires me to do my best in school and in everything. This book is full of Hope and motivation. Mare didn't have any choice but under circumstances she gradually stood up and be part of the league that she truly believes in. I see myself in Mare’s and Maven’s situation. Their parents seems to not appreciate the things that they do and put efforts on. My parents only notice my cousin while I'm only casted by their shadow. I liked this book because it has a little bit of everything. I has Romance, fantasy, technology, superhuman powers and politics. For a Teen novel it is unusual to have all these kinds of factors to it. Most of the teen novel book that I had read mostly focused on the character and romance whereas this book had other topic to talk about. I would recommend this book to the people that are interested in anarchy stories like Hunger Games and Divergent. While I was reading the book the question that I came up with was “When did all this happened?” The situation seems like it was from the old days however they also use hi-end technology. Therefore I was confused about when all this took place. Overall, I liked the book and if I were to rate it I would give it a seven for now, since I haven't read all of the books. It might answer my question from this book.
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