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Glass Sword

Glass Sword
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, Book # 2
HarperTeen
February 9th 2016
Hardcover
444
English
April 27, 2020 April 30, 2020

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.


About the book

Glass Sword is the sequel to Red Queen, the second book of the homonymous series and begins immediately after the end of the previous book. In this world there is a division, those who have silver blood, therefore they have powers and they are the privileged ones and those who have red blood, those who are worth nothing because they haven’t “evolved” to such an extent as to have silver blood. Mare, a red, after the events of the first book, managed to escape from King Maven, with Cal and the Scarlet Guard. They take refuge on the island of Naercey, but when they arrive on the island they find the king’s army waiting for them. After a battle between Cal, Maven and Mare (a phenomenal scene), the rebels manage to escape and take refuge in Tuck, another island in the hands of the rebels. Mare just wants to find the “New Bloods”, people who like her have red blood, but also have powers like the Silvers.

Here we will see the journey the girl and her team make to build the army to try and defeat Maven.

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Red Queen

Red Queen
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, Book # 1
Orion
February 10th 2015
ebook
430
English
July 27, 2019 August 1, 2019

MARE BARROW'S WORLD IS DIVIDED BY BLOOD—those with red and those with silver. Mare and her family are lowly Reds, destined to serve the Silver elite whose supernatural abilities make them nearly gods. Mare steals what she can to help her family survive, but when her best friend is conscripted into the army she gambles everything to win his freedom. A twist of fate leads her to the royal palace itself, where, in front of the king and all his nobles, she discovers a power of her own—an ability she didn't know she had. Except... her blood is Red.

To hide this impossibility, the king forces her into the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. As mare is drawn further into the Silver world, she risks her new position to aid the Scarlet Guard—the leaders of a Red rebellion. Her actions put into motion a deadly and violent dance, pitting prince against prince—and Mare against her own heart.

From debut author Victoria Aveyard comes a lush, vivid fantasy series where loyalty and desire can tear you apart and the only certainty is betrayal.


About the book

Red Queen is the first book in the homonymous series written by Victoria Aveyard. In this first book the story is narrated in first person by Mare, a 17 year old girl who’s about to become 18 and this means the army. I fact in this fantasy world there is a division between people with silver blood, people with privileges, the nobles and with powers (fire, metal, water or mind manipulation) and people, like Mare, with red blood, the commoners without powers and privileges. The ones who don’t have a job by 18 years old, are sent to the front to fight for the Silvers in a war that is so dated that no one remembers what they’re fighting for. But Norda, the nation where the narration takes place, is fighting with the neighbouring nations and only the Reds can fight because their lives don’t count.

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