Red Queen Book Review

 Book #7: Red Queen by: Victoria Aveyard

Overall rating: 6/10 

Red Queen was a solid read. It was just….alright. It had an interesting class system between the Reds and the Silvers, and the plot was filled with a lot of twists and turns. However, there’s plenty of room for the book to grow. 

Fans of The Hunger Games and Shatter Me would definitely enjoy this book. All these books share a common theme of rebellion and power. However, Red Queen falls more into the fantasy genre, while The Hunger Games and Shatter Me fall under the dystopian genre. 

The whole theme of the book is power. When Mare was living in the Red world, she noticed how much power the Silvers had, just because they had silver blood and special powers. But when Mare was in the Silver world, she was fighting for power for the Reds, all while pretending to be a Silver. 

The world of Red Queen was intriguing. It was unique how people were divided by the color of their blood. There’s plenty of room for this to be explained in later books, which could lead to a surprising plot twist. There wasn’t a lot of explanation of the history of the world, however. I feel like there could have been a map or some other visual to help readers understand the story better. 

The main characters in the story were pretty complex as well. They were not what they seemed to Mare, each other, and even me. Just when I thought that one character would do something, they just ended up doing the opposite! This helped contribute to the plot twists that made this a good read.

In my opinion, the pacing could have been a little faster in the middle of the story. While there was a lot of build up to the climax, the story did not have to take that long to get there. The last few pages and the beginning were absolutely amazing, but the middle part of the book was really slow.

Red Queen was a really interesting book series with a lot of room to grow in future books of the series. I would recommend this book to fans of the dystopian genre, even though this book is fantasy. It was a nice book to read.