“No one is born evil, just like no one is born alone. They become that way, through choice and circumstance.”
Welcome back to the world of Red Queen! We reunite with Mare Barrows as her journey continues as a runaway criminal!
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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.
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The book picks up right where it left off in Red Queen. Mare and Cal are 'rescued' by the Scarlett Guard after escaping Maven, now King of Norta. Thinking they are safe with the Guard, they instead find themselves going back to the outside world to look for New Bloods, Red bloods who posses the powers of silvers, like Mare and her brother Shane. The whole point of the book is Mare and her team tracking down these new bloods before Maven kills them all.
Okay...so I have mixed feelings. This book was 'entertaining'. It took a while for me to get really into this book. It was definitely a good second book, especially after the success of Red Queen. Now, let's get to the book!
“If I am a sword, I am a sword made of glass, and I feel myself beginning to shatter.”
Mare Barrows changes through out this book. She isn't the same girl who cared for those around her and tried to return to her family. Nope, this Mare is cunning, ruthless, and cruel! One can expect this from her especially after the events of Red Queen. She didn't are about killing anymore and slowly became, well, a monster. The biggest problem about Mare is that she had began to lose the fight within her. She didn't even give off the impression of 'Mare, Queen of Reds' like she did in the first book. There were even moments were I was so annoyed at her that I rolled my eyes and thought to myself 'just get it over with!"
“No one is born a monster. But I wish some people were. It would make it easier to hate them, to kill them, to forget their dead faces.”
We do get to explore more of Norta through out the book due to the adventures of the characters. Of course, the story does take place in a post-dystopian United States. There were some actions scenes thanks to my favorite character...Prince of Fire, CAL! I wanted more of him just like in Red Queen but nope I didn't get that.
But my biggest COMPLAINT is that someone died in almost every action scene but it was never explained. I would be done reading the action scene and then BAM! Someone died....WHAT!?
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Overall, this book was defiantly an alright sequel not great not good, but alright. Parts of it was just a bit dragged for me. The ending in my opinion was the best part because of the plot twist.
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