Red queens game

All you need is two decks of playing cards for each pair of students. Hosts and parasites reproduce according to their success at resisting parasites or infecting hosts, respectively. The students play multiple rounds, or generations, and personally experience rapid oscillations in genotype frequency through time, as rare suits increase and common ones decline.

The game received the Thomas Henry Huxley Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution for achievement in education and outreach. The game works well in both high school and college classrooms. Cal is also dumb and annoying and has no personality whatsoever. His death would also be appreciated.

And Maven??? I hope he finds Mare and Cal and then kills them and then rules ruthlessly, have a good day. I want to feed them to sharks. BR with this smexy beast. Like literally everyone has read this except me???

Sana tf you doing??? Ok but this series is finally ending so i can start it soon!! And the covers of every single book is gorgeous, i can't even,,, View all 14 comments. Jun 30, Steph Sinclair rated it really liked it Shelves: young-adult , harpercollins , reads , ebook , fantasy , action-packed , i-need-the-next-book-like-yesterday , triangle-of-love , release , i-totally-saw-that-coming. It's like an X-Men dystopia stuck in a high fantasy world on crack.

Look, guys, don't worry about the love triangle. Actually, calling it a love triangle is very spoilerish and I wish I could further calm your feels, but alas, you must read it for yourself. Immensely loved this with very minor reservations and I can't wait for book 2! Full review to come! View all 31 comments. I enjoyed reading it, but it was so similar to many other YA books that it's not memorable.

That was an intense book and I really enjoyed it! I am a sucker for superpowers and this book had such a cool variety of them! I was so into this book that I stayed up very, very late two nights in a row so I could see what happened next. It was a little predictable at times and I can see why people say that it's really similar plot-wise to a couple of other books, but I still liked it very much!

I just want a little more world building and a little more romance I'm always going to vote for more romance, to be honest , but I'm almost positive that that will all happen in the next book! Also, I really want a map for the world! I feel like that would be such a cool addition to the book. View all 21 comments. Jul 01, Regan rated it really liked it Shelves: books-owned-read. View all 10 comments.

Reading Red Queen was like receiving sour candy when you were expecting some glorious sugary sweets. I just felt so much disappointment after turning the last page, since I was expecting a fresh new story out of this one. Exhibit A: There are the Reds, slaves the Silvers, who are amazing beings Reading Red Queen was like receiving sour candy when you were expecting some glorious sugary sweets.

Exhibit A: There are the Reds, slaves the Silvers, who are amazing beings with odd powers. The Reds don't do much to escape their current living states and go on being doormats throughout the book, until a certain figure of strength the heroine supports them.

A very common dystopian trope. Exhibit B: Mare Barrow is the reckless "Savior of All" who is eventually blinded by her romantic interest. Yes, Mare can be considered badass with her unique ability and sassy attitude, but she felt like your typical Mary Sue for me.

And when her two love interests come along, she thinks of them both constantly and rather obsessively. Exhibit C: Yes, the customary love triangle square is present.

Mare is drawn to two brothers should I mention that they're princes? I like the other brother's character, but there's definitely zero chemistry between him and Mare.

There's also your resident Queen Bee, Evangeline, who seems to hate Mare the moment they lock eyes. Another iffy thing about the book was the lack of a backstory. Sure, I enjoyed all the Red vs.

Silver propaganda, but I would've liked to find out how everything became the way they are now. Maybe the next books will give me that. Overall, if you're one of those people who reads and loves all those popular young adult books out in the market today as well as The Selection -esque type books, I really believe that Red Queen will be a good fit for you.

View all 81 comments. Anyone can betray anyone. What a plot twist. In the entire book I was like: hmmm team Cal. Team Maven.. Hmm Team Cal.. Julian was so right!!! Why did he do that to us?? I loved him.. You should have listened. And you betrayed us both, in a thousand different ways. I choose no one. I see Mare's betrayal and Maven's obviously But I don't see Cal's betrayal. He never lied to her. She just assumed that he will go against his beliefs and his father?

So, what team am I? View all 28 comments. Please be good, please be good. View all 52 comments. Feb 21, booksNpenguins rated it it was ok Shelves: dystopia-and-scifi , enemies-to-lovers. No, okay, listen. Let me explain why this book was a no-no for me. We could say most of my problems with this book are to blame on wrong timing. I'm firmly convinced that if I read it something like six years ago, I probably would have liked it. Not loved it, but it would have definitely gained a couple more stars and a bit more attention from my part.

Unfortunately, I picked it up too late, once I've eventually had my chance to read around and already managed to juggle my way out of the various The Hunger Games , The Selection , Divergent , Red Rising and the rest of the merry dystopian brigade. So it left nothing to discover and this book didn't bring anything new to my reading experience.

It's not even about it being similar to other books, I promise. I mean, I don't mind parallels, but we're talking copy-pasting of plots, here. To me, Red Queen felt like large bowl of minestrone made from scraps of those novels above, with only the tiniest and faintest bit of originality that were still too weak to get me hooked.

Maybe if it wasn't for all this, I would have found it entertaining and thrilling, instead of boring and dull, but being completely honest, if it wasn't for this, we would also be talking about a different book.

Different being the word. You can change the factors only a determined number of times, but in the end, the final product stays the same. Want an example? I have tons. We have, in fact, the One not-like-other-girls girl who's going to save the day because who else could?

Now put all this together and you could really be talking about any or every one of those books. You name it, Red Queen has it. To be honest, I'm not even sure the concept behind this book is that bad, after all, it just was deadly trite, and it definitely wasn't for me. Add to this that I didn't particularly like any of the characters truth be told, I sort of don't dislike Maven, but only a little enough to be interested in their lives, personal issues and developments, and you'll have an idea of what's keeping me, from this moment on, at least twenty feet away from this series.

I liked the writing, though, reason for which I decided to give the author another chance. That is, as long as it doesn't involve dystopian worlds, cheesy romance and The Bachelor-like subplots. Am I going to need therapy after this book? Does the premise of a love triangle square? Is this book going to make me want to flip tables? Am I going to regret reading this book? Am I really sure I should read it?

AT ALL. Let's do this! View all 96 comments. Nov 22, Sofia rated it it was ok Shelves: enough-with-the-rebellion , black-and-white , le-sigh , lol-what-female-characters , that-one-character-i-hate , love-geometry , stock-side-characters , strong-female-protagonist , your-typical-ya-dystopia , well-that-was-a-cheap-plot.

To whoever thought writing formulaic YA dystopian novels was a good idea I hate you. YA dystopia is basically a game of Mad Libs. Shall we play? But there is another boy within the corrupt government who is not like other boys Et cetera, et cetera. Fill in the blanks. Mare Barrow lives in a corrupt society where people are divided by the color of their blood. She is a Red, which means she slaves away for the "good" of the Silvers.

But Mare is not like other girls. She can control electricity, which makes her a target. She longs for home and the boy she left behind, Kilorn, who is probably in love with her, even though she is blissfully oblivious. Katniss Everdeen lives in a corrupt society where people are divided by districts. She is a citizen of District 12, which means she slaves away for the "good" of the Capitol. But Katniss is not like other girls. She can use a bow, which makes her a target.

She longs for home and the boy she left behind, Gale, who is probably in love with her, even though she is blissfully oblivious. Do you see? The rest of this review is riddled with spoilers, so stop here if you haven't read the book or if you just don't care.

This book makes no sense at all. Mare is sent off to become Silver royalty because she's special, but she doesn't have Silver blood. Which means a simple paper cut could expose her. Killing her would solve all their problems.

It's not that hard to cover up her electric abilities afterwards. And then they betroth her to Maven, but why would they want a Red in a position of power? Of course, it's all a set-up at the end, but really? Mare fell for this? It's so blatantly obvious that Maven was lying. What would he have to gain, anyway? This so-called Scarlet Guard trusts him blindly, giving him all their precious little secrets.

It's so dumb. And then Elara is apparently a whisper, so she can look through people's thoughts. They somehow thought they would never be found they being Mare Barrow. Don't be an idiot. Oops, it's too late. I haven't seen any characters this bland since Kai, either. Cal and Maven are the same person, except one is less powerful and moody. Why is this a hard choice for Mare? Just kill them both, escape, pull a Kaz Brekker or whatever.

Forget the stupid angsty princes and their stupid angsty declarations of fake love. Life's too short to waste it with men. My favorite character was Evangeline. Yes, the shallow mean girl who was only there to antagonize Mare. I hope you detect my sarcasm. I feel like a traitor. What are my parents eating for dinner tonight? Eat the stupid food. That's what it's there for. If it all goes to plan, he'll never hug his sister again. Evangeline will have lost a brother. Oh, be quiet.

People have siblings, okay? They don't matter. He's a father. He's a father and we're going to kill him. Just kill him already. I thought you hated these Silvers. Yeah, well, they're all fathers. What are you trying to say here?

Everyone has family. Everyone is related to someone. Again with the personal responsibility! Obviously they're related to someone. And then there is Mare Barrow the Hypocrite, who hates all Silvers for being violent, heartless monsters and yet somehow expects them to treat Reds like more than glorified slaves. It works both ways, you know. Or, at least, it should. Cal's blood might be silver, but his heart is as black as burned skin.

Excuse me? Can I not be excited or nervous without being branded as a "silly girl? The only things that serve to distinguish us, outwardly at least, is that Silvers stand tall.

You are officially On-Brand YA. My heart plummets in my chest until it bounces around my toes. What is this? Shatter Me? There's only one thing I did like--Queen Elara. She was a very compelling villain with layers, which surprised me in a book that was purely black-and-white. I sympathized with her sometimes, at least more than I did with Horse. But, for the most part, this was the same old thing that's been churning out of the YA Machines since the year We both hated it.

Good lord in heaven! This book should carry one of those labels. It's not that it's bad. Look, I'm trying to be diplomatic. This book was bad, but it's not the sort of thing that, if you're interested, you shouldn't read.

There were some pretty co Good lord in heaven! There were some pretty cool scenes One cool scene. It was daringly gory and very deftly written. Oftentimes I find that fight scenes are written in such a way that the author knows what's going on, but nobody else does. Here, everything is pretty easy to visualize. But the problem is that this book is just a great big patchwork of a thousand other YA sci-fi dystopia melodramas that I really couldn't care less about.

It's nothing special, the characters are nothing special, the plot is laughably simplistic. Even the twist was visible from a mile off, because of course that character that everyone has been side-eyeing for the last three hundred pages is evil.

Of course the character that the heroine tries the hardest to convince herself is good people is bad people. But it's so cringey, like making small talk with the hairdresser. Here's this incredibly boring girl, Alina Starkov, who gets taken to the Capitol when her Grisha powers emerge in dire straits!

Cersei Lannister engages Alina in a battle of wills view spoiler [and shit hits the fan when she orchestrates the killing of Robert Baratheon so Joffrey can take the throne even though it rightfully belongs to Mal. I'm not entirely sure if Cal is Mal well, they got the names right but he's that sort of jerk that you can tell the author likes but who left me colder than a chest freezer.

He could have been spaghettified by a stellar black hole and crushed into unobservable matter in the singularity and I wouldn't have given a rat's ass either way. Water is a conductor, and if Evangeline is hurling metal at Mare's head, a wall of electricity isn't going to stop it. I guess you could say that if Evangeline's power is to create magnetic fields, then Mare's lightning interfered with that, but that's really clutching at straws and there's no evidence that simply applying a shock of current to a magnetic field will block it.

In fact, hardly anything can block a magnetic field; it's a powerful force. Can Mare create forcefields? That's never really solidified. Even the Rise, red as the dawn thing that was clearly a marketing tool falls flat. I've said this before and I'll say it again: you can develop your protagonist until you're blue in the face, but a story is nothing without a supporting cast. World building is nothing without decent supporting characters. I knew this book and I would have a hard time getting along when I realized it was written in exhausting, unfunny "snarky" first person, but look at the world Suzanne Collins managed to built through the eyes of one character.

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The cost of being common: evidence from natural Daphnia populations. Evolution, 63 , — Download references. AKG designed the activity, facilitated data collection, and wrote the manuscript. DM Drown improved upon the activity and contributed to the manuscript.

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