When word comes around that Julian may still be alive, Mare makes it her duty to go in and save him from a prison that the newblood, Cameron, has escaped from. But Kilorn also has feelings for Mare that just cannot be returned.

Her long-time friend Kilorn does not like how close she has become to Cal, still untrusting of the Silver. Many newbloods are found and join Mare and her fight against Maven, but some she is too late to save.Īll the while, Mare battles with herself against feelings for Cal. All she knows is that she must reach them first. What exactly Mare thinks the newbloods will do for the fight in Norta isn’t exactly in her thoughts yet. With the list Julian gave Mare of all the known newbloods, Mare and Cal escape the Scarlet Guard base, Shade and Farley in tow, to seek out these newbloods before Maven finds and kills them. They are Reds with Silver abilities, making them stronger than both. The newbloods are being treated by the reds as if they were Silvers, but they are not. Mare proposes the special list of newbloods to the commander, but he doesn’t want those kind of people around.

When Mare and Cal end up with the commander of the Scarlet Guard, Farley’s father, neither are treated with a warm welcome. On the run from the new king, Maven, Mare, Cal, Farley, and Shade set out to find the other newbloods. The first book is Red Queen, and there are two in-between novellas called Steel Scars and Queen Song that I would highly recommend reading BEFORE the second book. Glass Sword is the second novel in a new young adult fantasy series by Victoria Aveyard.

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