Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard- Book review

Hi! I realise that I always start my posts with hi or hello, and it's something I want to change because to be honest it's really annoying me. I hope you're well, I'm well, I think. I'm writing this in advance so I can only assume that at the time I post this I will be well. As you're reading this, I'll be on holiday, yay! So, as you've probably guessed from the title, today is another book review! I love reading and so I thought that I would do more book recommendations! Sorry if you don't like reading ahaha.

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard is a sort of dystopian, romantic fantasy book that had me hooked immediately. It's intense, gripping and thrilling right from the first chapter. It's about a seventeen year old, Mare Barrow, who lives in a world divided by blood- those with red blood and those with silver. She has red blood, destined to serve the Silvers and be conscripted and fight in the war. But that all changes. She gets called to the palace to take her place as a servant, and at the Queenestrial she displays powers that only Silvers have. She gets forced into a life she doesn't want to live, and she turns to the Scarlet Guard to try and help change the world as they know it.

Overall, this book is just amazing, I totally recommend it and I can't wait to review the next books in this series!
Love,
Alice x

Switched- Book one of the Trylle series review

Hello! I hope you're all ok, I'm ok, I wrote this post in April and I scheduled it to go up, look at me being all technical! Also, this post doesn't have any photos because I was honestly not bothered to take photos and my memory card for my camera doesn't have any storage left either. Sorry about that! If you know where to get cheap memory cards for cameras then please leave a comment, I'm struggling to find any and my mum's credit card has been blocked so I can't get one off amazon.

I had mixed opinions about this book, I basically only bought it because it was cheap, and I wasn't sure if I'd really like it. Turns out, I did. I read this in two days, it was so hard to put down! The plot revolves around this character, Wendy Everly, who lives an ordinary life, then one day her life is turned upside down when she's told she's a princess of the Trylles, and so she leaves her life and family and is taken to be the princess of this other 'world'. Her mother is the Queen (obvs) and she has the power to paint the future, so she sees what's coming, she doesn't have a clue when or why, but she paints it. Wendy and her tracker (the person who comes to get her) are romantically involved, however her mother forbids her from dating him because he's too lowly ranked for her. I don't want to give too much away, so you'll have to read the book to get what I'm on about.

I would recommend it, it is very good and I do think it's worth it, the book is stunningly written and it deserves more attention. It's by Amanda Hocking and it's called Switched. I bought the book in a trilogy with Torn and Ascend, I'm halfway through Torn (as of April 16th) and I'm really enjoying it :)

Right, there is that relatively short post, I don't know why it's so short, if I'm honest! I hope you liked it, byeeee
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