Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

I've been doing lots of reading of YA books this summer, and they have all been realistic fiction that has been more appropriate for older students.  I decided I needed to go back to my favourite genre- dystopian novels.  So I did a little searching to find out what I've been missing and this series kept coming up. 

In this dystopian novel the world is split into those with red blood and those with silver blood.  Silver blooded people are the aristocrats who rule the world.  Many of them have special powers and they are used to keep the red blooded people down.  Mare Barrow's is a red blood- her and her family and struggling to survive in the world where those with the wrong type of blood are limited to the worst, most dangerous jobs.  Mare knows that once she turns 18, she will be sent off to war to fight for the silver blooded royalty.  There is no choice in this, like her brother's before her, she has to report to war.  But when a chance encounter with someone changes her future, she soon discovers that even though she is of red blood - she also possesses special abilities.  This makes her a threat to the Silver's way of life and puts her life at risk as she tries to navigate living in the Silver world, while staying true to her Red family.

This is a great book!  Lots of action and excitement.  The only problem is, when you finish one book, you have to race to Chapters to buy the next one!