Book profile
Red Queen
- Subgenre
- romantasy
- Edition year
- 2015-02-10
- Rating
- ★ 3.7 · 909 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
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Mare Barrow, a Red-blooded thief in a classist society ruled by Silver elites with superhuman abilities, discovers she possesses her own latent power. To conceal this impossibility, the king forces her to impersonate a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his sons. Inside the palace, Mare walks a dangerous line between performance and truth, secretly aiding the Red rebellion known as the Scarlet Guard. Her loyalties are torn between her people and a forbidden attraction, in a world where one wrong move means death and betrayal is the only certainty.
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- Arranged Marriage: “the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons” source
- Hidden Identity: “the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess” source
- Chosen One: “a common girl whose once-latent magical power draws her into the dangerous intrigue of the king's palace” source
- Betrayal: “the only certainty is betrayal.” source
- Strong Heroine: “she risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard—a growing Red rebellion” source
- Forbidden Love: “her heart tugs her in an impossible direction” source
- Love Triangle: “her heart tugs her in an impossible direction.” source
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