![]() ![]() Red Queen bears some resemblance to Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy, not least because both works are contemporary young adult fantasy novels narrated by their talented, unique female protagonists. Mare’s refrain of “anyone can betray anyone” seems apt to describe the specter of mistrust and corruption that looms over the shift in power from the Obama administration to the Trump administration. Some refer to these struggles as the “Arab Winter.” Although Aveyard published her novel in 2015, the anxieties of her characters also dovetail with the national anxieties in the United States in the wake of the 2016 presidential election. Most of the involved countries have since been engaged in ongoing struggles to implement democratic governments. The uncertainty of what will come after revolution that characterizes Red Queen has thus played out in the real world in the wake of the Arab Spring. Many longstanding regimes throughout the region were toppled between 20. ![]() The wave was led by protestors advocating for more democratic governments in their respective countries. ![]() Aveyard began writing Red Queen in 2012, at the end of the Arab Spring, a revolutionary wave in North Africa and the Middle East. ![]()
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