An admirable début novel that combines a rags-to-riches story with a dystopian world and the powers of the X-Men, Red Queen will please a varied audience. I enjoyed reading it but have to concede that there is almost nothing original about it, and that it ultimately failed to wow me in the way that it could have.
This story-world is set in a future version of our world with two marked differences. The first is that the countries we are familiar with no longer exist and technological advancement has regressed for unknown reasons. The second is that a series of...
