Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

in this science fiction, norta is separated by blood. red and silver, silvers being the rich and higher in the society with an ability that makes life much easier. while reds below a servant's life, and much poorer.
mare barrow a red blood. somehow finds herself In the scarlet guard. a group of red bloods rebelling against the royal family and other silvers. when mare discovers her ability she is shocked. in this sequel. mare finds as many new bloods as possible to create an army to rebel against the silvers.
allwhile keeping her relationship with the exiled prince, Calore afloat. she must run through prison. kill.and hardest of them all stay away from king Maven.

I don't even know where to start with this review. I really enjoyed the action and pace of Red Queen and I was really eager to see where Aveyard would take this series moving forward. That being said I honestly am beyond disappointed. This book had none of the excitement or intrigue of Red Queen. More than half of the book was all this information and planning. And yes it was important information but there had to be a better way to present it to us.

As I got closer to the end, I figured there had to be something exciting coming and we would get this explosive conclusion making us impatient to get our hands on the next book. But that did not even happen. This book probably had one of the most anticlimatic important deaths I have ever read. Two fairly major characters died and it just happened. Plus that explosive exciting cliffhanger ending I was expecting, I predicted that at the beginning of the book when this whole thing started.

Obviously I'm very frustrated with this book especially when the first book was so enjoyable. I'm really nervous about what is going to come next and after finishing Glass Sword I'm not even sure where I stand with the series as a whole. I'm tempted to reread Red Queen to see if my enjoyment of the initial read would remain after a reread. I have preordered book three and right now that is mostly because I'm a completist and want the whole set rather than my need to see what happens next.

I hated. Hated Mare. She was lovely and fun in the beginning but an absolute utter b*tch at the end. Why is everything about her? She's not the effing queen. But, loved the rest of the book!

Again, a re-listen and I feel like I got it better the second time around. I had forgotten some of the disturbing scenes.

This is more of a cat and mouse chase between Mare and Maven. I was into the psychology of their game. Also lots of new character introductions and their abilities.