Reading The Riot Act: victoria aveyard

Thursday, 9 July 2015

Cover Reveal: Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

Due to be released February 2016

The second book in the Red Queen series is due out February next year. Now as the title would suggest obviously the cover has just been revealed and I like it. I don't love it. It just seems too similar to the first cover and yet I still think it is beautiful and will look lovely on my bookshelf. "Kneel or Bleed" now that is a bit of excitement. It sounds perfect for this series and really is violent and ahhh.

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?

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Louise Wilkes 11:34:00 3

Warning: Spoilers! (duh.)

The poverty stricken Reds are commoners, living under the rule of the Silvers, elite warriors with god-like powers.

To Mare Barrow, a 17-year-old Red girl from The Stilts, it looks like nothing will ever change.

Mare finds herself working in the Silver Palace, at the centre of
those she hates the most. She quickly discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy Silver control.

But power is a dangerous game. And in this world divided by blood, who will win?

From Screenwriter Victoria Aveyard, comes this thrilling novel about social segregation and the class system. We follow protagonist Mare as she is dragged into the upper class world of royalty and attempts to take it down from the inside. But with two princes vying for her attention, a queen who hates her and vicious to be princess in the midst, things aren't as easy as that. Plus everyone has powers, it's very Game of Thrones meets Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon NOT the movie).

“In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.”

― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

Mare is a typical dystopian or fantasy heroine, she's had it rough and wants to fight back. However up until her discovery of power which only silvers possess, she is in-extraordinary. She's no particularly pretty, not a skilled fighter, kind of misbehaved and really is not the member who will save her family from the world. She is in all ways an underdog given an opportunity to rise to. The casualties are great and she messes up a lot but as a reader it's wonderful to see the character development, the book ends where a series would normally start, but we get to see all the build up. The world is well built, much like Game of Thrones we just accept it, we don't ask questions just enjoy the ride.

This book is fun and it ends on a good'ol cliffhanger and yet things seem so despondent, I can't even imagine what will happen in the next book (which is apparently longer) the series just changes direction and twists the plot round and round until you can't predict the outcome. It;s one hell of a read and I highly recommend it to any fans of LOTR, Game of Thrones or Avatar.

Happy Reading