Title: Glass Sword

Author: Victoria Aveyard

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy

Publisher: Harper Teen

Format: Hardback   

Pages: 444

Rating: 4/5 stars

Synopsis (Goodreads):

 

If there’s one thing Mare Barrow knows, it’s that she’s different.

 

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?

 

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.

 

Review:

This book is a bit more fast paced than the first one. Mare and Cal have escaped execution, only to feel left out and like they don’t belong to any group. But Mare has Julian’s list, and she makes it a priority to save as many people as she can!

The characters grew a lot in this book. Mare realized that she is willing to do horrible things for the cause, and she realizes that she really doesn’t trust anyone, even though her heart would beg to differ.

Cal joins the cause against his brother, but mainly because he doesn’t have a choice. Not really, since his brother made him an outcast.

One thing I liked a lot about this book was we learned a lot about the Newbloods. But the beginning was slow paced, and while the end of the book was fast paced, there were so many shocking things that happened near the end that had me so frustrated! Which I guess is what the author intended because now I need to read the next one to see what happens!

 

Happy reading bookworms!