They travel to Tuck, a small island which is supposedly safe from the Silvers, however with her dangerous powers Mare is a threat to the Reds.

They need to keep moving, Maven knows all their secrets and he won’t hesitate to use that knowledge to hunt them down. Glass Sword picks up immediately after Red Queen ended, with Cal and Mare fleeing the capital after Maven’s betrayal, helped by the Scarlet Guard. In my mind the Red Queen series doesn’t, the first book read like a generic dystopian novel and it didn’t improve with the second instalment in the series. There are a lot of dystopian books on the shelves now and for me to enjoy a book, for it to really stand out, it needs to have something unique. It had a lot of good reviews and a lot of people were really excited for it, but maybe this series just isn’t for me. I wanted to enjoy this book, I really did. I only know what she has been and what she has lost, and the weight of it is almost crushing.” And I don’t know what new person opened her eyes on the Undertrain. Mareena, the lost Silver princess, died in the Bowl of Bones. “Mare of the Stilts died the day she fell onto a lightning shield.

This review may contain spoilers for previous book(s) in the series. Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever?

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.īut Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. 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. Mare Barrow’s blood is red – the colour 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.

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