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Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood--those with common, Red blood serve the Silver- blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own.

To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play 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 everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard--a growing Red rebellion--even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction. One wrong move can lead to her death, but in the dangerous game she plays, the only certainty is betrayal.

Short and Sweet Review

In Red Queen the people are separated by their blood, the reds and the silvers. The silvers have powers and live in high society. The silvers look down on the reds and think they’re inferior. Mare Barrow our main character is a red, one night she meets Prince Cal although she doesn’t know it at the time. Cal gets Mare a job at the palace as a servant and that’s when Mare makes a spectacle. Mare is an anomaly she has red blood but she has the ability to form lightning from her hands something a silver should be able to do. After that the Queen and King decide to pretend that Mare is a lost silver and they have a political use for her. Mare also decides to work for her own agenda she teams up with the Scarlet Guard, a group that wants to take down the Silvers. In her time at the palace Mare is engaged to the youngest Prince Maven, and she’s trying to get intel for the Scarlet Guard.

This is my second time reading this book and my thoughts have changed. Mare is a selfish character and she makes rash decisions. Prince Cal was a good character he tried to do what was good for everyone. Mare just tried to do things for the reds but it was almost like she was doing it for herself and her family. Mare is engaged to Maven but she and Cal have feelings for each other so things get complicated there, I think if things were different it would have been Cal and Mare from the start. We follow Mare as she pretends to be a generals daughter, she takes lessons and training classes and meets interesting people. During her timeMare learns that people can betray her but she puts that on the back burner and decides to trust most people which led to her downfall. I’m hoping in the next book Mare becomes a little more street smart. I’m interested to see what’s going to happen next especially because she’s now enemy #1.