So before I start my little mini rant I have to say that I do love this book but there still are some things which annoyed me ;) still it is an amazing book. 
 I wanted to read Red Queen for a long time because it sounded so promising. A few people talked about the mind-blowing betrayal and how great this book is and that is one of the main reasons why this book was a little bit of a let-down for me. 
 I mean I love the writing. Victoria Aveyard did a great job making the characters come to live and altogether the story was beautiful written but it was just not original enough for me. Red Queen got so much attention and there was such a hype around this book which I can't completely understand. 
 It was a decent book and I liked it very much but it wasn't groundbreaking. A lot of times while reading it I thought "Oh I've already read this somewhere" and it reminded me too much of The Hunger Games x Game of Thrones x Avatar: The Last Airbender. 
 I don't have a problem if books remind me of other books or tv shows. I mean the whole thing with the world divided in two class of people, one the elites and the other one's have to follow and the special girl/boy who bends the rules of the society and of course a rebellion - I feel like I've read storys like this a hundred times before but the problem is that Red Queen has so little original content. I always wished for something totally new and it didn't happen. 
 And seriously, the betrayal was so obvious. People who read A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire #3) will agree with me that this was not a mind-blowing betrayal. If Aveyard wouldn't write her favourite sentence ("Anyone can betray anyone") 300 times before the actual betrayal I may had not been so "prepared" for it. 
 I mean I loved the twist and I love me a good betrayal but this was not so unexpected like some people are saying. 
 But altogether I did enjoy this book a lot! The characters were great and I love Mare. She is a nice heroine and I do have a weakness for Cal! 
 But also Maven was such a interesting character! 
 That is why I'll give this book four stars because the story was really good, the characters were nice and the writing was excellent even if it wasn't that amazing as some people put it! 
 I'm excited for the second installment and I hope Aveyard comes up with something really new and amazing and most of all I hope she stops using the same sentence over and over. 
 PS: I absolutely loved this quote: 
 "The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain."