Genre: YA Fantasy
Red Queen Series, Book 2
Note: This is the second book in a series. I believe that's enough warning...
Description (taken from Victoria Aveyard's website):
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?
This book picks up right where the first one ended: with Mare and Cal running from the treacherous King Maven. Cal has lost his crown and Mare has escaped a death sentence. But when they seek sanctuary with the Scarlet Guard, they find a lot more than they bargained for.
Mare is determined to save as many Reds with Silver abilities as possible before Maven has a chance to get to them. She always gives them a choice to join her cause or run. But even when she's hidden behind this choice, is it really a choice? Or is she so blinded by blood that she will do anything to save people like her and destroy Maven? And then we have Cal. Once blinded by blood, but now there's no where for him to stand. So why stay and fight for the other side?
I am so frustrated with this book. And I'm frustrated with the fact that I can't tell you why I'm frustrated. About fifty pages into this book, I determined it was going to be *yawn* a cliché second book. And it did not prove me wrong. There were many places within the book that had me hooked and heart-racing. But it was like a countdown of the expected events. However I did kind of really enjoy the last ten pages (I give full permission for judgement).
Frustrated camper here. But I'm going to continue the series.
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