“Words can lie. See beyond them.” 
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

Halo guys!

So today ill be doing a review on this amazing book called “ Red Queen “ by Victoria Aveyard. Buat temen-temen yang suka buku bertemakan dystopian, maka aku recommend banget buku ini.

This is a world divided by blood – red or silver.

The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change.

That is, until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace. Here, surrounded by the people she hates the most, Mare discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy the balance of power.

Fearful of Mare’s potential, the Silvers hide her in plain view, declaring her a long-lost Silver princess, now engaged to a Silver prince. Despite knowing that one misstep would mean her death, Mare works silently to help the Red Guard, a militant resistance group, and bring down the Silver regime.

But this is a world of betrayal and lies, and Mare has entered a dangerous dance – Reds against Silvers, prince against prince, and Mare against her own heart ... 

This book has a major plot twists. Sebenernya buku ini itu kayak your typical rebellion novels, where there is this one thing that people believed, and turns out that the main character is something else and then he/she discover they are not the only one and blablabla… Yes, I admit kalau buku ini itu doesn’t have the most original plot but still I totally enjoyed reading it. Back to the plot twist, menurut aku plot twistnya yang bikin buku ini jadi keren banget. Beberapa orang menganggap kalau endingnya itu predictable, tapi kalau buat temen-temen yang gak bias ngebaca endingnya dari awal, maka buku ini bakal terus ngehantuin kalian untuk baca lanjutannya. Sebenarknya aku sendiri udah tau endinnya dari awal, gara-gara baca spoiler di internet,  jadi pas baca ujungnya kaya udah gak kaget gitu.

As usual, buku ini ada romancenya. Tapi kalau menurut aku tidak begitu banyak sih jadi kayak gak terlalu menye – menye. Karena ini buku Y/A fantasy, jadi ada beberapa hal dibuku ini yang rada tidak masuk akal, tapi kalau aku sendiri sih, tidak merasa itu mengganggu.

Yang aku tidak suka dari buku ini. The fact that, this is one of those book where the girl keep on blaming herself for something that, menurut aku, bukan salah dia. Mare , the girl, juga cewek yang selalu berusan ngelindungi sahabatnya and would do literally anything for her best friend, which is kind of cute but kind of cliché and the same time.

Jadi kalau temen-temen lagi pingin baca buku yang modelnya mirip-mirip Hunger games, Divergent, Legend, dll, maka aku recommend banget untuk check this book out.

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