Glass Sword

I loved the first one but this one is a little slower. I still give it a 4 out of 5 stars because it's still very good, but the past could've been faster.

I had such high hopes for this book. I freaking LOVED Red Queen. But Glass Sword was so freaking slow!!! It took me two freaking months to get through it! All of the important parts felt really anticlimactic. Mare annoyed me to no end. Make up your damn mind, girl! Glad to be done with this thing. Ugh.

I don't even know where to start with this review. I really enjoyed the action and pace of Red Queen and I was really eager to see where Aveyard would take this series moving forward. That being said I honestly am beyond disappointed. This book had none of the excitement or intrigue of Red Queen. More than half of the book was all this information and planning. And yes it was important information but there had to be a better way to present it to us.

As I got closer to the end, I figured there had to be something exciting coming and we would get this explosive conclusion making us impatient to get our hands on the next book. But that did not even happen. This book probably had one of the most anticlimatic important deaths I have ever read. Two fairly major characters died and it just happened. Plus that explosive exciting cliffhanger ending I was expecting, I predicted that at the beginning of the book when this whole thing started.

Obviously I'm very frustrated with this book especially when the first book was so enjoyable. I'm really nervous about what is going to come next and after finishing Glass Sword I'm not even sure where I stand with the series as a whole. I'm tempted to reread Red Queen to see if my enjoyment of the initial read would remain after a reread. I have preordered book three and right now that is mostly because I'm a completist and want the whole set rather than my need to see what happens next.

This took way to long to get through. I had to take breaks after a few chapters just because of the dullness, repeativeness and the lack of emotion Mare was giving as a narrator. Korrect me if I'm wrong (Mare wasn't that emotional in the first book) but except one scene at the end she was even more emotionless than in the previous book. Also she became kind of indecisive: One page she roots for Cal/says Silvers aren't that bad, next one she hates him/ Silvers. Get your thoughts together, stupid lightning girl.

I saw most of the plottwists coming since the narration almost foreshadows everything! I didn't guess the deaths in the book at first but it became kinda obvious.

The first half was slow and boring most of the times, mixed with the endless repeations of ‘quotes' from the first book. It just felt as if these passages were added to lengthen the book. But this cliffhanger.... was really good.

I think about reading the next one to see if it will become better (like the first one). I like non whinny characters as Mare is one. But since she still got on my nerves I will wait until I read the third one (and hope that I don't get in a reading slump WHILE reading it).

Oh! The agony of waiting for the next book. I really enjoyed this story all the twists and turns keep it interesting.

Muita ação e vilões pra quem, como eu, esperava uma distopia romântica.

OMG THE LAST PARAGRAPH. OMG.

Right know that's all I can say or think. I'm truly speechless... Victoria seems to have a gift for unpredictable plot twists and I don't know if that's a good thing for my mind or a bad one for my heart. Both, I guess?

Full review to come.

Honestly, I have no idea why I read this book despite being sorely disappointed in [b:Red Queen 22328546 Red Queen (Red Queen, #1) Victoria Aveyard https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1449778912s/22328546.jpg 25037051]. Maybe I wanted it to get better, but sadly it didn't. What annoyed me the most in the first book was the heroine, Mare, and I don't see her improving anytime soon with how she behaves in this one. She's still selfish, she never learns, and she doesn't give a crap about things she should care about.The romance is still shallow and cheesy, but this time there's not enough Maven to make up for it, so I was left cringing the whole time. I also feel like the writing has gotten worse compared to the first book. At this point I'm totally giving up on this series, but we'll see if masochism will take over and make me read the next volumes.