Waiting on Wednesday # 13: Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

Waiting on Wednesday is an original weekly feature created at Breaking the Spine. The idea is that each week you make a post that spotlights upcoming releases that you're eagerly anticipating. You can find out more about this feature here.

This week I am deciding to spotlight:

GLASS SWORD BY VICTORIA AVEYARD

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?

Ahh I absolutely adored the first book, Red Queen! I thought the pacing was amazing, the blend of abilities and frankly I thought the writing style was gorgeous. The only issue I had with it was how amazingly tragic the ending was, and how being left on a partial cliffhanger, Victoria Aveyard teased us in making us wait for the second book! I literally am going to have the hardcover of this book pre-ordered ASAP because I can't wait much longer!

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