Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard (383 Pages)

Aveyard is a new author for me. This book is a really good read covering several genres: Dystopian, Science fiction, and What If. Here is a society divided by two distinctive groups. Reds are the inferior group, who do the "grunt" work and fight for the realm. Silvers are the aristocracy, upper class, superior group. The interesting thing is that the division is based on blood. Silvers' blood is silver, and they have unbelievable "talents". Reds' blood is red! Mare Barow, the heroine, suddenly discovers that she is a cross of both. While her blood is red, she has a talent that she is unaware of until it is brought out during a moment of terror. For those students who enjoyed earlier dystopian novels, this will be a winner, and judging by the ending, it is the first in a series!