Mare is a Red, just a common human in a world ruled by Silvers, people with amazing powers. 
 Mare is searching for solution and possibily a job because as soon as she will celebrate another birthday, if she is still without a job, she will be send to the battlefiled as a soldier just like her other three brothers. 
 Thanks to the luck - or misfortune - Mare find a job at the palace. Just right during an important even that will determinate the future wife of the princes, Mare is victim of an accident and a strange strenght wake ups inside her. She is a Red with a Silver's power. 
 Red Queen didn't impress me at all. This is a long book for so many usless pages and things. 
 Anyway, the novel is set in a dystopic world. Is it the Earth? Or not? It can seems like it is, but nothing is certain, because... Well, the authore didn't give a damn hint about it. Where is Mare's world? What is it? 
 How Mare's world is like that? Why is it dystopic? War? Epidemy? Cataclism? Diety imposed powers? 
 Questions everywhere and zero answers. 
 How Reds are Reds and Silvers are Silvers? Why Mare has powers? 
 DNA, genes, chemical reaction of the body, something in the air... Waiting for the second book to give me something more. 
 I read this book in italian... and it was a massacre. The traduction is terribile and so damn heavy. Reading present verbs and first person narrative in italian is just like receveing a punch. 
 I liked Mare, but not that much to go crazy over her. She's always thinking bout hter family, trying to help them in every possibile way. I also like the way she tried to handle the revolution, even if she allowed children to die. I don't care if people say: it's a revolution. This kind of thing, just like war, is not an excuse to lose humanity and Mare manage the best of herself to keep up with that. 
 But she's quite plain also! I dind't feel really invested on her and the female character made less sense. 
 Evangeline is only bad for no particular reason and so she remains. 
 Yes, there is also the revolutionary boss... but who cares? Seriously, I couldn't really get attached to the characters. 
 The male charatcers... another big who cares. A wall is more emotional. They are flat or terribly hipocrital. I couldn't stand Cal, and later Maven, but I never cared for Kylorn, and alla drama-romanca was such a nosensical thing, 
 In the end, Avayard's story was quite good but it was more like a teen romance drama with jewels and powers, and few and predictable political intrigues. I was excepting something more strong, something more cruel, but in the end I just found a court of Silvers that is quite... cliche with a little bit of more nuances? 
 Everything need a higher level of emotions and a more complex plot. 
 I will read the second book out of curiosioty, hoping for something that could engage me more with the whole story and the charatcers