Let me try to get them down coherently in GIF's (find my review of Red Queen HERE):ġ. I'm so afraid for what you could be, if given the wrong chance.'Įnter the world of shades of gray.

You've seen horrible things, done horrible things, and they will change you. Things have been done to you, things no person should suffer. I'm either right or dead wrong, but my gut is telling me to there is more to Maven than meets the eye. Scroll down to the spoiler portion of my review to read my theory on his redemption arc. 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. Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever? 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.īut Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. 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. 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. If there’s one thing Mare Barrow knows, it’s that she’s different.

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