Soon after, Shade and Farley go with Kilorn to rescue them. Barrow’s parents and siblings are held on the island as well.īarrow and Kilorn go to Cal’s bunker to talk to him about strategy, but Kilorn seems to betray her, pushing her into his cell. He arrests Cal and brings him in for interrogation, imprisoning him in an underground bunker. Their commander, known simply as Colonel, assumes control of the Scarlet Guard.

When they arrive, northern soldiers called Lakelanders are manning watch stations. His assistants Evangeline and Ptolemus lead the Silver fighters luckily, Barrow and her friends escape via a submarine and navigate to the island of Tuck. Maven soon starts an air strike against the Scarlet Guard. Maven’s attack squad has a buffer of slaves that he is using as cannon fodder to protect his front line. As they travel, they realize they are being followed by King Maven and a troop of Silvers, people who possess magical combat powers.

Naercey is a city of ruins where the Scarlet Guard surreptitiously camp out remotely from the prying eyes of the kingdom. The novel begins as the Scarlet Guard, a group of rebels which includes Barrow and her friends Cal and Shade, board a train to Naercey. During this struggle to escape capture, Barrow also struggles to avoid becoming the kind of monster she wants to eradicate. It follows the protagonist Mare Barrow, a seemingly common girl who is endowed with the power to control lightning, as she escapes the clutches of King Maven, a former prince and friend who betrayed her in the first novel. The second installment in a series called Red Queen, it continues the series’ central conflict between a burgeoning army of rebels and a nepotistic kingdom which segregates its people by family lineage. Glass Sword is a 2016 fantasy romance novel by Victoria Aveyard.

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