No better way to end the year than with a series BANG! Victoria Aveyard's "Red Queen" series has been calling my bookshelves home for quiet some time and I finally decided to dive in and take a peek. I can honestly say, I wasn't disappointed in the slightest. Readers are introduced to Mare Barrow -- a teenage girl surviving in the throws of a small town by utilizing the talents of a well-worn thief. Between smuggling and selling items, Mare takes a lead role in making sure her family survives in the small town by whatever means necessary. She gets by in her day-to-day tactics with an accompaniment of her dear friend, Kilorn. Both of the teens are surviving in the best ways they can while avoiding conscription--going off to the front lines of a never ending war between kingdoms--something far greater than their lives in which they're merely moving through one day at a time. Until Mare meets a mysterious man one night and everything changes. Through twists of fate,...
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