Ever since I can remember I have always had a love for stories as they can take you outside of your reality and allow you to explore new and imaginative ones. There are many books that I have read in my lifetime and there are many from different genres that I have enjoyed immensely. However, I would have to say that when it comes to books my favorite genres are usually those that are within the fantasy and young adult fiction categories. Now, in keeping that in mind I would have to say that as of right now my favorite book is the Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard.
Something that I love about this book aside from its beautiful storytelling is the cover. I remember when I was going through the bookstore on my nineteenth birthday and looking at all the book covers trying to find something interesting that I could read and the minute I saw the cover of this book I knew that this book was going to be good. The cover, as you can see in the image I have attached, is very minimalistic in its use of color and background with just merely using the image of an upside crown covered in blood. This use of imagery alone already gives you a sense of what the book will entail. I mean how could you look at this beautiful book cover and not want to know what this book is about?
Now, aside from the beautiful cover of this book, there is something to be said about its content as well. Just to give you an idea as to what this book entails it is about a world in which its characters are divided by blood, particularly the color of it. Within this book, those who contain red blood are merely viewed as commoners and those with silver are essentially the elite of society as they possess powers that can be compared to those of gods. Our main character, Mare Barrow, within the story is a red-blooded member of society who works for the silver palace and even though she may have the blood of a commoner she possesses a power far greater than those of silver blood. This disrupts the balance of power between the red and silver allowing her to conjure a plan to take down the elitists. Now, although one may view this book as a non-living object everything about it from the beautiful cover to its content allows for the imagination to run wild.