Glass Sword (2016)
Glass Sword is a 2016 young adult fiction book written by Victoria Aveyard.
Mare Barrow bleeds red, the mark of the common people, yet she wields lightning like the silver-blooded elite who rule over her. That impossibility makes her a weapon everyone wants to own. Hunted by Maven, the young king who once called her a friend, Mare sets out to find others like herself, Reds hiding powers they never knew they carried. Victoria Aveyard raises the stakes of Red Queen with a harder, colder second book, tracking a rebel who fears the fight itself will turn her into the very kind of tyrant she means to destroy.
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What is Glass Sword about?
Mare Barrow bleeds red, the mark of the common people, yet she wields lightning like the silver-blooded elite who rule over her. That impossibility makes her a weapon everyone wants to own. Hunted by Maven, the young king who once called her a friend, Mare sets out to find others like herself, Reds hiding powers they never knew they carried. Victoria Aveyard raises the stakes of Red Queen with a harder, colder second book, tracking a rebel who fears the fight itself will turn her into the very kind of tyrant she means to destroy.
When was Glass Sword published?
Glass Sword was published on 9 February 2016.
Who made Glass Sword?
Glass Sword was written by Victoria Aveyard.
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Readers gripped by hidden abilities and a brewing rebellion should try the X-Men films, which share the same charge of feared outsiders forced to pick a side. For an interactive version of leading a doomed-feeling insurgency and carrying the cost of every recruit you lose, Dragon Age: Inquisition delivers the same weight of command and consequence.
Discovering you're not the only one with a hidden gift
Glass Sword sends Mare looking for other Reds who can do what she does, a search that mirrors Alina gathering fellow Grisha in Shadow and Bone, Harry finding Hogwarts, the casters of Beautiful Creatures, and the dhampirs and Moroi of Vampire Academy. Each story turns a lonely power into the start of a community.
Rebels who fear the fight will turn them into the very tyrant they're fighting
Mare worries constantly that toppling Maven will cost her the person she was before the crown noticed her, a fear Dragon Age: Inquisition's power-hungry Inquisitor arc shares, along with Tris and Four's fraying convictions in Insurgent and Allegiant and Katniss's slow unravelling in Mockingjay. Winning and staying yourself aren't guaranteed to go together.