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Victoria Aveyard
American writer of young adult and fantasy fiction and screenplays
Glass Sword
Mare Barrow's blood is red, but her powers are as deadly as any Silver's. Now a fugitive and a symbol of the Red rebellion, she sets out to find the "newbloods," others like her whose abilities were never supposed to exist, before the crown can find and destroy them first.
Racing across a divided kingdom with Cal at her side and the young king Maven hunting her every move, Mare gathers a ragged army and learns just how heavy the cost of leadership can be. Each recruit she saves and each ally she loses hardens her, and she begins to fear that the fight to free her people is quietly turning her into someone she doesn't recognize. The second book in Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen series deepens the stakes with betrayal, sacrifice, and the seductive danger of power.
A newblood leader recruiting others like her while grappling with what the fight is making of her.
The manipulative young king relentlessly pursuing Mare.
Mare's loyal childhood friend from the Stilts.
The exiled prince fighting alongside Mare.
A Scarlet Guard commander from the Lakelands who works with Mare to recruit newbloods and raid Corros Prison.