Glass Sword

Red Queen Series

Author: Victoria Aveyard

Book 2 in the Red Queen series

Pages: 444

Published: 2016

Age: 14+

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.

Recognition:

Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2016)

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About the Red Queen Series

Reading age: 14+ years

This series should be read in order.

Graceling meets The Selection in Victoria Aveyard's acclaimed fantasy series about seventeen-year-old Mare, a common girl whose latent magical powers draw her into the dangerous world of the elite ruling class.

Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood – those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief, until, by a twist of fate, she discovers an ability all her own. One wrong move can lead to her death, but in the dangerous game she plays, the only certainty is betrayal. Will her power save her or condemn her?