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• February 10th 2015

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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.

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Blood of the Silvers

The Silvers stand in opposition to the Reds. Their blood is silver and their powers are mighty. And, according to the narrator, something of much greater metaphorical significance:

“Their blood is a threat, a warning, a promise. We are not the same and never will be.”

Rohr, of House of Rhambos

The narrator describes Rohr-of the House of Rhambos, mind you—as the tiniest girl she’s ever seen. But you know what they say about things that come in small packages:

“Below us, little Rohr destroys the floor in a whirlwind, turning statues into pulverized piles of dust while she cracks the ground beneath her feet. She’s like an earthquake in tiny human form, breaking apart anything and everything in her way.”

A Done Deal: Metaphorically Speaking

Red Queen Symbols

The narrator has become a royal bride, promised to the king’s second son. The position affords her a bit of bargaining power and she strikes a deal to save her brothers and friend. At the king’s almost instantaneous one-word assent, “Done,” she thinks:

“It sounds less like a pardon and more like a death sentence.”

Red Queen Symbolism

Death Sentence for the Devil

Circumstances prevail upon the narrator to the point at which it is she who becomes the object of the king’s pronouncement of a death sentence. Not exactly a forgiving type is the king, whose decree makes it clear how badly things have broken down since the deal was done:

“As for the Red girl, the trickster [she is informed] She will have no weapons at all and die like the devil she is.”

Metaphorical Juxtaposition

The novel closes on a poetically constructed metaphorical image that is subtly juxtaposed with the unpleasant imagery of the sweaty, smelly high heat of summer with which the story opens:

Red Queen Symbols List

“A strange warmth falls over me, a warmth like the sun though we are deep underground. It’s as familiar to me as my own lightning, reaching out to envelop me in an embrace we can’t have.”