The electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they’ve always known – and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul.
Mare Barrow’s blood is red – the color of common folk – but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince – the friend – who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: She is not the only one of her kind.
Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors. But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever?
Review for Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard ***Review posted on The Eater of Books! blog***
I have to say it and I hate that I have to say it because this was … I have to say it and I hate that I have to say it because this was one of my most anticipated titles of the year… but this book I think suffered greatly from second book syndrome.
The wait is finally over! For thousands of readers tomorrow will be the day they circled in their calendar – “Glass Sword”, the sequel to Victoria Aveyard’s worldwide YA bestseller “Red Queen” is coming out. I had chance to read it before official release date and though impressions are still fresh, I could say to you – it was worth waiting for…