Red Queen

In a world divided by blood—those with silver blood rule as an elite with supernatural powers, while those with red blood serve as commoners—seventeen-year-old Mare Barrow is a Red with no future. She steals to survive, her brothers have been conscripted into a never-ending war, and her only prospect is the same grinding poverty that has defined her family for generations.

Then Mare discovers she has an impossible ability: despite her red blood, she can control electricity. To hide this dangerous anomaly, the Silver king forces her into the royal court, where she must pretend to be a lost Silver princess. But Mare is also recruited by the Scarlet Guard, a Red resistance movement plotting revolution. Caught between a treacherous court and a rebellion she is not sure she trusts, Mare must navigate a world where anyone can betray anyone—and the line between ally and enemy is drawn in blood. Victoria Aveyard's debut is a propulsive fantasy that combines the class warfare of The Hunger Games with the court intrigue of Game of Thrones, all centered on a heroine who refuses to be a pawn.

Available at Popular bookstores, Kinokuniya, and the Singapore National Library.