Need an easy read? Try YA dystopian novels

When you’re in the midst of reading heavy, emotional novels, you might be looking for a book that’s easy to read and lighthearted. This is that book. Today we’re talking about the YA dystopian novel, Red Queen. This book is #1 in a four-book series that takes place in a world where people with silver blood have powers and people with red blood don’t — except for Mare Barrow. 

This week, we read Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard 

Abby Williams, lover of historical fiction and a good plot twist, joins me today to talk about a book that gave us a warm, familiar feeling of mindlessly reading a fast-moving book. 

In this episode we cover: 

• Why sometimes you need a book with weak characters and a predictable storyline to just cleanse your reading palate. 
• What YA dystopian novels made up our childhood. 
• Why we chose this book over another to review this month.  

Open your book and press play on a podcast episode that will leave you wanting to look up that “spicy” scene in Divergent that you read over and over again in the 8th grade. 

Mentioned in the Pairings section of the podcast:

• DRINK PAIRINGS: Champagne with creme de violet (grey purple like Mare’s sparks), Epicuro Primitivo
• TV SHOW - Wednesday, Avatar the Last Airbender 
• BOOK - Percy Jackson, The Hunger Games - Mockingjay
• MOVIE - Divergent, Frozen

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