50 YA Books We Want Adapted to the Big or Small Screen

Cover to King’s Cage by Victoria Aveyard, release date: Feb. 7, 2017. Image via HarperCollins.

41. Red Queen

Victoria Aveyard’s series hasn’t yet come to an end, with the third novel, King’s Cage, dropping in February. However, with a coloring book also out and hints of a fourth book right there on her official website, this series is going places. (In fact, those places include reports of a film in development, which Aveyard has already spoken about to Epic Reads.)

Anyway, this series heads more for the realm of dystopia, but doesn’t mind also incorporating more fantastic ideas in this world of Red and Silver Bloods. Our heroine, Mare Barrow, starts the series out as nothing more than a Red blood working in the palace, but someone’s got to fill the shoes of the series name as well as the title of the first book, right?

That’s where she comes in. Even though she has Red blood, she also shares something with the Silvers: a power of her own in the form of lightning. Now hidden in plain sight, she has to navigate a deadly court as well as the affections of not one, but two princes.

Yes, she has some similarities to Katniss Everdeen, which I noted when I read the first book back in 2015, but that may actually help, not hinder, the movie moving forward.