![]() ![]() ![]() Downtrodden young woman is rescued from the locked-in pattern of her poor village life by being co-opted into a corrupt societal structure she will then be manipulated (by men – the superstructures are almost always run by pompous women in tight hair-buns, because a) dads are divorced and therefore both absent and indulgent and b) moms are so mean) into overthrowing. Ripoffs proliferate parodies abound there's a sarcastic Twitter feed - “YA dystopia” is the new glittery vampire.The pattern is straightforward and brutally misogynistic. ![]() All you need in order to recognize every single pertinent detail in Aveyard's novel is a bored hour spent idling on Netflix, just long enough to catch the overdone movie of Suzanne Collins' underdone book The Hunger Games.Its legion of lazy twentysomething fans refer to this stuff as “YA dystopia” not so much because it depicts societies in advance states of decay but because none of the characters in these books seems to own a cellphone, and the derivativeness of the sub-genre was an open scandal long before The Red Queen – certainly the most scandalous example – came along. In fact, you needn't have read a single YA novel in your life. The Red Queen by Victoria AveyardHarperTeen, 2015“ Graceling” meets “ The Selection” goes the publicity line for Victoria Aveyard's much-hyped debut novel The Red Queen, referring to two popular entrants in the booming Young Adult sub-genre, but you needn't have read those two books in order to feel right at home in The Red Queen. ![]()
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