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Glass Sword
by Victoria Aveyard
Series: Red Queen (#2)
Published by: Harper Audio
February 9th, 2016
Genre: Young Adult
Format: Audiobook
Source: Library Loan
Rating: 4 Stars

     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?


     I read the first book on this series at the beginning of last year and I have to say that I enjoyed listening to this book as much as the first.

     Mare is now on the run with Cal and they just want to save as many people as they can from Cal's brother. They two along with the red guard and anyone who'll willingly help go one many mission to get as many New Bloods as they can so they can build an army and fight against the silver bloods that want them dead.

     Although this book concentrated more on the survival of many characters and less in the action/adventure it did have a lot of intense and deeply moving moments that left me wanting more. I loved the rescue and how Mare embraced her path and I hope that she can come out of the mess she now finds herself in stronger than ever.

     I can't wait to listen to the next book and I hope I don't get disappointed with Mare's development and I hope Cal gets out of that funk he's in and goes after her.
March 30, 2019 No comments
Red Queen
by Victoria Aveyard
Series: Red Queen (#1)
Published by: HarperAudio
February 10th, 2015
Genre: Fantasy, Dystopia, Young Adult
Format: Audiobook
Source: Library Loan
Rating: 4 Stars

     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.


     "Anyone Can Betray Anyone"

     This is a lesson that Mare Molly Barrow learned well. Throuought all this book I listened how Mare sacrificed all she was and all she believed in to help her family and friends. How she fell deeply and inexorably deeper into a world she knows nothing about and how she learned a painful truth that not everything is as it seems and you can't trust anyone.

     It had me at the edge of my seat with all the twists and unexpected turns that the story took. When I thought I'd figured things out there went Aveyard and threw a wrench in my logic and disrupted all the world again.

     I didn't give it a 5 stars rating because there were a couple things that didn't agree with me. First is that I had a hard time understanding the book at first, second is that some things were left in the air and last but probably not least is that sometimes I had trouble with the narration since I don't like first person POV.

     That being said I can't wait to delve into the next book to see what else the clever Victoria Aveyard comes up with for this group of misfits!
January 28, 2018 No comments
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