Identity In Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen

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Readers will be enthralled by Victoria Aveyard’s action-packed young adult novel “Red Queen”. The kingdom of Norta is divided into two parts; those with red blood, common humans who were born to serve, and those with silver, titans with extraordinary powers and hearts as cold as ice. Mare Barrow, a red, lives in the poverty-stricken Stilts and steals to provide for her family. Her entire life is flipped upside down when she is taken from her common life and sent to serve in the summer palace of the royal family. It is quickly discovered that Mare, despite her red blood, has a silver-like ability: control over electricity. Mare is thrust into a dangerous world of glitz glamour, secrecy, and danger. Aveyard expertly crafted a theme of identity,

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