Red Queen
Juvenile Fiction
HarperTeen
January 5, 2016
Paperback
208
Two women on either side of the Silver-Red divide tell the stories no one else knows. Discover the truth of Norta's bloody past in these two revealing prequels to #1 New York Times bestseller Red Queen. Also includes an exclusive excerpt of the hotly anticipated second book in the Red Queen series! Glass Sword transports readers to the world of Silver tyranny, a Red dawn rising, and one girl's resolve to break down the system that will hold her back no longer. Queen Song Queen Coriane, first wife of King Tiberias, keeps a secret diary—how else can she ensure that no one at the palace will use her thoughts against her? Coriane recounts her heady courtship with the crown prince, the birth of a new prince, Cal, and the potentially deadly challenges that lay ahead for her in royal life. Steel Scars Captain Farley exchanges coded transmissions with the resistance as she travels the land recruiting black market traders, smugglers, and extremists for her first attempt at an attack on the capital. She was raised to be strong, but planting the seeds of rebellion in Norta is a tougher job than expected—until she stumbles upon a connection that may prove to be the key to the entire operation: Mare Barrow.
WrensReads Review:
Queen Song
So I am reading the novella’s before Glass Sword comes out [so excited, really. I dream of coming home and finding it on my porch and screaming with glee.].
So Coriane… I can’t really say anything about her without spoiling. So below is my full review. So don’t click on it unless you like spoilers.
What I will say is this: I relate to Coriane a lot, with what she is dealing with. We all have our own versions of Elaras.
So not true. If anything Elara helped her get to the crown by scaring her away from the dinner after her uncle’s funeral and into the space-heater of a prince Tiberias.
After many things are told and said, she is pregnant, and married, to the prince.
She has miscarriages. She is plagued with nightmares. Someone is messing with her. Someone is putting her into a depression and making her paranoid.
Someone else wants the crown.
Over all, this was a great fifty some novella. I haven’t ever read a novella, so I didn’t really know what to expect. But I love Aveyard’s stories and assumed it was something I should read before the next masterpiece comes to my front door.
Steel Scars
So I am reading the novella’s before Glass Sword comes out [so excited, really. I dream of coming home and finding it on my porch and screaming with glee.].
So Farley… I knew she was going to be of some importance to the story. And I kind of picked up on the
The mission reports were kind of hard to read and really, I would have been okay with her just saying them in the italic way they do when we are seeing into their thoughts.
I like Farley fair enough, but really I didn’t like this novella as much until Shade was involved. I was excited to learn more about him for sure.
I feel as if this novella was important to the story as well, so I am glad I read it.
Glass Sword Sneak Peak: Chapters 01-04
So this sneak peek was to DIE FOR.
I really can’t be anymore in love with a fictional character. I’m talking about Cal. I really need him to be a real person so I can like, marry him.
Really I have never actually felt so strongly about a fictional character. This probably means I need counseling and am going clinically and unclinically crazy.
Don’t know what that means either.
The end of that battle [the one that they are practically heading into at the end of “The Red Queen”] is a terrific thing to read about. Minus people dying and how horrible Maven is. Even though Maven is kind of a wonderful person in the completely and utterly horrible way.
I’m excited and can’t wait for February 9th 2016! LIKE COME YESTERDAY PLEASE.
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