
He personally requested for her to be sent to the palace as a server, to help give her family money and save Mare from being sent to the army. He didn’t know then of her ability but felt connected to her somehow. Cal first saw Mare trying to steal from him back in the stilts. But then there is Cal, the oldest and heir to the throne. Mare is betrothed to Maven, the youngest and is drawn closer to him as he proves to be an ally to the scarlet guard. The Red Queen wouldn’t be a proper young adult novel without a love triangle. This book is full Mare having to leave her old life behind and learn to be silver, while also aiding a red rebellion, the scarlet guard, and figuring out exactly who she is and what her blood means. The King and Queen hide her in plain sight, disguised as the lost daughter of one of the fallen silver high houses and is then betrothed to the youngest of the two princes, Maven Calore. When she is sent to serve the royal family, an accident occurs that should kill Mare but instead proves that though she is red, she has silver abilities. Her blood is red and she grew up in a red slum called the stilts. The story focuses on a 17 year old girl, Mare Barrow. Then people with red blood are normal and are considered “lesser” to the silvers, living in slums or serving the silvers in royal or high houses. People with silver blood have special abilities, like being able to control fire or being able to read minds or having super strength. The book is set in a world where people either have red blood or silver blood. The book I discovered was called The Red Queen by: Victoria Aveyard. When I first saw an ad on YouTube for a new book that had a dystopian feel to it, I couldn’t help but check it out for myself.
