Victoria Aveyard’s Red Queen series has sat on my Kindle for some time.



I would start Red Queen and get a couple of chapters into it and then like most people - life would get in the way and I wouldn't get time to read.

This week I decided enough was enough. I needed to actually buckle down and read a book that I had wanted to get my teeth into for years.

It did not disappoint me at all.

The characters are vivid and the world they are living in so well written that you feel yourself being part of Mave’s unhappy life in the Stilts. There are moments where I can almost smell the mud, damp wood and sweat of the over-worked and under-fed people who live in the Stilts with our future heroine.

There's a dystopian nightmare situation that surrounds both the Reds, those with red blood in their veins; and those that govern - the Silvers with yes, you guessed it, silver blood. War surrounds and affects both groups though to varying degrees an even the small insight you get about those conscripted to a war that should have ended years ago; and it is evident that like with many battles over land, it cannot end peacefully for either side.

That kind of war never does and the hopelessness of those with red blood facin that uncertain future is vivid and sad to be a witness too. They're cannon fodder for the wealthy who choose to go there as a means of showing bravery.

Silvers are granted a choice, Reds wouldn't know what the world meant.

Or do they? People are starting to come together to fight against tyranny and unbeknownst to Mave, she is going to be used in this battle whether she wants to or not.

I loved seeing her grow from uncertain pickpocket to the woman we see her become as she grows and adapts to life and all it throws at her.

If you're looking to lose yourself in a book that merges Orwell’s 1984 with aspects of The Hunger Games (but oh so much better I promise)

This is for you.

Victoria Aveyard’s writing is phenomenal and I’m already very invested in book two of the series. I reckon you will be too once you get lost in The Red Queen.