Summary of the Novel
Red Queen was published
on February 10th, 2015 and was written by Victoria Aveyard. The
characters in the novel are Mare Barrow, Maven Calore, Tiberias Calore VII,
Evangline, Queen Elara, King Tiberias, and Julian. Mare Barrow is a girl who
lives in a world were blood defines a person. If one has red blood then the
person is a commoner, however if a person has silver then they were the elite
with mystical powers. Mare Barrow is just a regular Red girl, her parents
struggle to provide food for her and her family everyday so Mare steals for
other to provide for herself. Her life is quite normal until her best friend
tells her that he is conscripted into the war. Mare was devastated, she could
not let her only friend die in the long-term war. Mare comes up with a plan for
her and Kilorn, her best friend, to escape from the Silvers and live a normal
life together. Mare finds someone to illegally ship them to another part of the
country, however the cost to do this is not cheap. Mare comes up with another
plan to go to the park that is filled with Silvers and steal from them to
afford the fee. However, announce from a terrorist group named The Scarlet
Guard causes havoc in the park. Many of the Silvers in the park blamed innocent
Reds and killed most of them. Mare was frighten for life so she decides to live
the park, however she decides to steal money from Silver. Sadly, she gets
caught but to her surprise the young man she stole from let her keep the money
and afford her a job when he realized that Mare would be conscripted into the
war. A few days later, a carriage takes Mare to the royal castle to start her
brand-new job. On the first day of her job, Mare has to assist with a
Queenstrial, which is a pageant to show the royal the family that the young
girl is strong enough to carry the royal line. Suddenly lightning burst through
Mare’s hand, everyone was astonish to see a Red maid possess so much power. The
queen had locked up Mare and began to ask her questions, eventually the Queen
Elara decided to pretend that Mare is a long-lost Silver Princess and that she
would marry her son and continue the royal line. For the rest of her life, Mare
is supposed to pretend that she is Mereena Titanos and a silver girl. The queen
made Mare study about the history of the country and how to be a proper
princess. Mare hated the Silvers so much that she decided to join The Scarlet
Guard, to her amazement someone she knew decided to join The Scarlet Guard.
Together the plotted ways to bring down the Silvers, all of their plans failed
thanks to one person. Eventually someone Mare trusted most had betrayed her and
The Scarlet Guard. Eventually the king was murdered by his crazy wife, Cal was
framed for his murder and both Mare and Cal were thrown into jail. Maven took
power and the first thing he did as King was putting Mare and Cal to trial.
Mare and Cal are convicted of treason and will be killed in arena. However, Cal
and Mare escape with The Scarlet Guard and they are taking to train. The plot
device in this novel is that EVERYONE BETRAYS EVERYONE. Everyone literally
betrays everyone, Son betrays Father Brother betrays brother Mother betrays
EVERYONE Mare betrays the Silvers. But the plot devices is what keeps the novel
interesting. The central idea is power is a dangerous game, anyone is willing to
do anything to gain power. The genre of
the book is Fantasy and Young Adult Fiction. The language in the novel is easy
to understand, there isn’t many difficult words in the novel. The mood in the
novel is quite dark because the book revolves around one purpose, everyone
betrays everyone. My favourite part in the novel is when Mare meets Cal, Cal
was very sweet to her since the day they met and I believe that Cal will still
be that way. I would read this book over and over and over again until the
author publishes the second book to the series and then I would read that book
over again. I recommend this to anyone who is bored and wants something to
entertain them, this book will succeed.
