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Red Queen is an Young adult fantasy novel written by Victoria Aveyard. This is her debut novel. The book was published in February 2015. The second part of the novel is named Glass Sword. It won the 2015 Goodreads Choice Award for Debut Goodreads Author and was nominated for the 2015 Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction.
This book has influences of Hunger Games, X-Men, Game of Thrones and Cinderella.
The story is set in a fantasy world where human beings are divided based on the colour of their blood. The "ordinary" people have red blood and those with "abilities" have silver blood. These silver-blooded are referred to as "Silvers" and are the ruling elite. Silvers severely oppress the red-blooded commoners referred to as "Reds".
A series of events results in the discovery of a seventeen-year-old Red girl with abilities named Mare. The royal family hides the truth about her lineage and proclaims her as one of their own, a Silver accidentally raised as a Red. Oppression of the Reds leads to a rebellion (the Scarlet Rebellion) and the rise of revolutionaries, lead by Reds. The Silvers and Reds clash and the main character, Mare, is caught in between. Both sides want to use her to their advantage and she struggles internally as she tries to decide what to do to keep her family alive without completely changing and going against what she believes to be right.
Red Queen (2003) is an aggrotech EP by Funker Vogt. The Lyrics to the song heavily refer to the story of Alice in Wonderland and the remixes on the single are names after characters from the book.
Hush-a-bye lady in Alice's lap
Till the feast's ready we've time for a nap
When the feast's over we'll go to the ball,
Red Queen and White Queen and Alice and all.
Hush-a-bye lady in Alice's lap
Till the feast's ready we've time for a nap
When the feast's over
We'll go to the ball,
Red Queen and White Queen