Book Review: Glass Sword - Victoria Aveyard

Title: Glass Sword
Author: Victoria Aveyard
Publication Date: February 9th 2016
Publisher:  HarperTeen
Pages: 444
Link to Goodreads: Here
Part of a Series: Book 2 of Red Queen

Plot: 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. 

Reading Period: March 04, 2016 - March 24, 2016

Review

“If I am a sword, I am a sword made of glass, and I feel myself beginning to shatter.”

I loved Red Queen, so I was excited to finally have the second book. At the end of the first book we left Mare and Cal running away with the Scarlet Guard. There isn't a time jump, the story continues from where it was interrupted.

Unfortunately this second book wasn't as fast paced and interesting as the second one. I found it slow in some places and I really missed the character of Maven, he makes a really good nemesis, but there were only a few scenes with him.

There's a little bit too romance for me too. It seems that everyone loves Mare, even if I don't really like her as a main character.

I really liked all the new characters and their powers are so cool, a mixture of X-men or Inhumans. Victoria Aveyard develops the world very well, she extended the environment that we had already met and we seen a new part of the rebellion and society.  

I really hope that in the next book we'll have another point of view besides Mare's one. I'm not really convince about her as a character and if you don't feel a bond with the main character it is difficult to keep up with the story.

WARNING: In books like these you shouldn't get too attached to the characters, you'll never know who could suddenly die.

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