Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)

by Victoria Aveyard

[Jack]

I got through half of this once before but then lost interest. Picked it up again in January I think and it went a lot faster. Still slow for an audiobook, but I wasn't listening to it all the time until most of March when it got warm out and the book got more interesting.

It was a pretty good book, although I felt like the middle plodded along too much the ending moved quickly.

I'm not sure if there was romance in this book or not, I was really rooting for any of the "couples" if there was. and the sudden change from one of the main characters acting one way to another was really abrupt, despite circumstances surrounding them, making the change possible. It just didn't make any sense.

Wish there was more history of the world, more worldbuilding in general. I get that it's supposed to be some far future earth/north east? But that's about it. Maybe in future books, we'll get more history into how the world developed into silvers and reds. Maybe it was a genetic defect, a mutation in the genes.

Overall an alright book, my first audiobook that I listened to in its entirety. The narration was good, characters were decent, although the main female lead could be annoying. The premise was pretty interesting. The middle lagged, the ending was fast paced.

I think I'll pick up the next book eventually.