Mare’s fortunes change suddenly when she accidentally discovers that, despite her red blood, she, too, has a supernatural talent: she can control lightning. Now the follow-up, Glass Sword, arrives with a far more aggressive first printing of 500,000, continuing the exploits of Mare Barrow, 17, whose red blood marks her as a commoner in a kingdom whose rulers bleed silver and have superpowers, like telekinesis, Herculean strength, or mindreading. “I remember when I first started writing, dreaming the dream that I would get it published, and what’s happened since has exceeded that wish in every way,” said Aveyard.
Foreign rights have sold into 37 territories, and film rights were sold before publication to Universal Studios, with Elizabeth Banks signed on to direct.
Book one, Red Queen, sold out its first printing of 150,000 and then some: it’s been on bestseller lists for most of the year since its release last February. Her contact at Benderspink passed the manuscript to Suzie Townsend of New Leaf Literary & Media, who brokered a three-book deal with HarperTeen in April 2013. “She need not have worried” dramatically understates the events that followed. Aveyard, then 22, promptly decamped from Los Angeles to her childhood home in western Massachusetts where she spent most of her “terrifying, unemployed year after college” writing her first draft. But when she confessed this to a representative from Benderspink, the television production company, at a campus pitchfest, he encouraged her to go for it. And what she really wanted to do seemed risky: write a YA novel. Armed with a BFA in screenwriting, she had a portfolio of ideas, but no job. In the epic conclusion to Victoria Aveyard’s stunning series, Mare must embrace her fate and summon all her power… for all will be tested, but not all will survive.Like many college seniors, Victoria Aveyard approached her 2012 graduation from the University of Southern California with a mixture of excitement and dread. Will victory be enough to topple the Silver kingdoms? Or will the little lightning girl be forever silenced?
War is coming, and all Mare has fought for hangs in the balance. But Maven is driven by an obsession so deep, he will stop at nothing to have Mare as his own again, even if it means demolishing everything – and everyone – in his path. Cal’s powerful Silver allies, alongside Mare and the Scarlet Guard, prove a formidable force. Now determined to protect her heart – and secure freedom for Reds and newbloods like her – Mare resolves to overthrow the kingdom of Norta once and for all… starting with the crown on Maven’s head.īut no battle is won alone, and before the Reds may rise as one, Mare must side with the boy who broke her heart in order to defeat the boy who almost broke her.
Mare Barrow learned this all too well when Cal’s betrayal nearly destroyed her.
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