Red Queen 
By Victoria Aveyard
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Personal Rating: 8/10

In this fantasy/dystopian wold there are two types of people: people born with red blood and people born with silver blood. The reds are commoners, living in slums, working to serve the silvers, and risking their lives to fight the silvers wars. People born with silver blood rule over the reds and live like gods among them. The silvers are to be feared, and for good reason. People with silver blood have powers. Powers to control fire, to heal the wounded, and to read minds, The story follows Mare Barrow, and average impoverished red. But Mare isn't like other reds, she a red with powers like a silver. When her powers are discovered in front of a crowd of powerful silvers, the king and queen hide the impossibility of it by make Mare one of their own. She is no longer a pickpocketer with red blood, but a silver engaged to a prince. Forced to live among the people she hates the most, Mare does her best to play her part while deciding who can be trusted and who wants change as much as she does. But in a war between bloods, she finds that anyone can betray anyone.

This came out just this last month. There has been so much hype about this book ever since the cover was released last month (and isn't it a beautiful cover?) so I knew I had to read this once as soon as I could. Right from the get-go this book opens up to a whole new and exciting world that is easy to get lost in. Before I read this I heard that there was sort of an X-Men factor in the story because of the powers of the silvers, but most of the powers where unique and set up in a way that didn't make me think of the X-Men at all. Definitely not like how the Shatter Me trilogy by Tahereh Mafi makes me think of that. There are a ton of characters in this book, including a lot of frightfully fascinating  villains, and I loved the main character.

Overall, this was a very good book that i felt deserved all the hype it was receiving. There where a few times where I felt a little lost in the complexity of it all, but it was still a very entertaining read with a lot of powerful themes about power and betrayal.
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