("LA REINA ROJA" #2)
*RESEÑA SIN SPOILERS*
SINOPSIS: La sangre de Mare Barrow es roja – el color de la gente común – pero su habilidad Plateada, el poder de controlar el rayo, la ha transformado en un arma que la corte real trata de controlar.
La corona la llama una imposibilidad, una falsedad, pero cuando ella escapa de Maven, el príncipe – el amigo – que la traicionó, Mare descubre algo sorprendente: ella no es la única de su especie.
Perseguida por Maven, ahora un rey vengativo, Mare se dispone a encontrar y reclutar a otros combatientes Rojos -y- Plateados para unirse en la lucha contra sus opresores.
Pero Mare se halla a si misma en un camino mortal, en riesgo de convertirse en el tipo de monstruo que ella está tratando de derrotar.
¿Se romperá bajo el peso de las vidas que son el costo de la rebelión? ¿O es que la falsedad y la traición la han endurecido para siempre?
¿POR QUÉ DECIDÍ LEERLO?
Había leído el primer libro de esta trilogía hace ya bastante tiempo, por lo cual no recordaba muy bien la historia en detalle; pero cuando vi "Glass Sword", aún sin recordar mucho de que se trataba la cosa, decidí leerlo. Su portada me encantó, al igual que la del primer libro y parecía tener buenas críticas.
Al principio decidí leerlo enseguida, pero sucedió que no entendía casi nada de lo que estaba pasando porque no me acordaba de nada del libro anterior. Así que volví a leer "La Reina Roja" y, wow, lo amé. Le conté a mi amiga que lo estaba releyendo y que lo estaba amando, y me dijo: "¿En serio? ¡Qué raro! Porque cuando te pregunté si me lo recomendabas me dijiste que no, que no valía la pena y que no te había gustado." ¿En serio? ¡Que equivocada estaba! ¡Amé "La Reina Roja" y muchísimo más esta continuación!
ESCRITURA
Los personajes son sin duda mi parte favorita de estos libros, pero supongo que eso se debe mayormente a la autora. Los personajes de esta trilogía son únicos, simplemente únicos. El mundo creado en esta historia se ve reflejado en ellos en cada momento, lleno de traición e injusticia. Victoria Aveyard construye a sus personajes de una manera excelente, muy profunda y real para el lector. Hasta los personajes secundarios te llegan al corazón. Las traiciones y las pérdidas te afectan tremendamente. Victoria Aveyard conoce la forma exacta de llegar a sus lectores. Te lleva a ese mundo aterrador que, sorprendentemente, luego no quieres abandonar ni por un segundo. ¡Es una escritora maravillosa! Tal vez no esté llena de metáforas o cosas por el estilo (aunque si tiene varias que son maravillosas), pero tiene un talento diferente. Un talento único que se conecta al lector. Puedes ver su pasión reflejada en cada una de sus palabras; es algo increíble.
LA PROTAGONISTA
Nunca había pensado tanto sobre una protagonista. Sí, Katniss Everdeen es asombrosa, Hermione Granger es ejemplar y Aelin Galathinius es increíble, pero Mare Barrow me ha dejado sin palabras. Es un personaje profundo y bien construido como muchos otros. Así que, ¿por qué me gustó tanto? Creo que es porque nunca antes había leído sobre un personaje tan real como Mare Barrow. Tan perfecto. Y, cuando digo perfecto, en realidad me refiero a: "Mira como este personaje tiene tantas fallas y comete tantos errores." En realidad me refiero a: "Gracias por ser tan imperfecto." Porque real y perfecto en este contexto significa humano. "Gracias por crear un personaje tan humano, tan perfectamente humano que comete errores y se equivoca tremendamente."
Varios personajes en otros libros cometen errores que en realidad sólo son considerados "errores" dentro de la historia y a ti te parecen una buena decisión, porque al fin y al cabo terminan siéndolo. Esta planeado de esa forma. Aunque suele no resultar porque, lo que es catalogado como un "erro" en la historia en realidad termina siendo la mejor decisión de todo el libro, pero sólo quieren hacerte creer que tal vez sí es un error. En este libro es diferente. Mare Barrow ha hecho tantas cosas incorrectas que le han costado caro, pero yo (como lectora) ya lo sabía y, aún así, lo hizo. Y yo he tenido que verla sufrir las consecuencias.
Mare Barrow es un personaje sumamente profundo y me encanta por eso. Porque es extremadamente humana. A Victoria Aveyard no le importó que su personaje hiciera tantas cosas mal. No la transformó en lo que ella quería que fuera, sino que la dejó hacer las decisiones que ella quisiese. Y fue increíble.
CONCLUSIÓN
"Glass Sword" por Victoria Aveyard es el segundo libro de la trilogía "La Reina Roja"; una trilogía sumamente increíble llena de pasión, misterio, romance, acción y suspenso.
¿Lo recomiendo? ¡SÍ! ¡DEBES LEER ESTA TRILOGÍA! Créeme, es lo más original que he leído.
¿Lo recomiendo? ¡SÍ! ¡DEBES LEER ESTA TRILOGÍA! Créeme, es lo más original que he leído.
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book review: GLASS SWORD by VICTORIA AVEYARD
("red queen" #2)
*SPOILER FREE REVIEW*
SYNOPSIS: If there’s one thing Mare Barrow knows, it’s that she’s different.
Mare Barrow’s blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control.
The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince—the friend—who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind.
Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors.
But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat.
Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever?
WHY DID I DECIDE TO READ IT?
I had read the first book of this trilogy a long time ago now, so I didn't remember it well in detail; but when I saw "Glass Sword", I decided to read it, even though I didn't remember much about what the whole thing was about. I loved its cover, as much as I'd loved the one in the previous book and it seemed to have great critics on its back cover.
At first I decided to read it immediately, but it turned out I didn't understand most of what was going on as I didn't remember what had happened in the previous book. So I read again "Red Queen" and, wow, I loved it. I told my friend that I was reading it again and that I was lovin' it and she told me: "Really? That's weird! When I first asked you about it you told me you didn't like it and that it wasn't worth it." Really? How very wrong I was! I loved "Red Queen" and I loved even more the second book of the trilogy!
WRITING STYLE
The characters are definitely my favorite part of this whole thing, but I guess that's due to the author. The character of this trilogy are unique, just unique. The world created in this story is reflected in them at every moment, full of treason and injustice. Victoria Aveyard builds her characters in an excellent way, truly deep and real for the reader. Every character gets to you! Whether its love or hate you feel for them, it gets to you. Victoria Aveyard knows the exact way to get to her readers. She takes you INTO that scary world that you'll end up loving and wishing to never leave. She's a wonderful writer! Maybe she's not full of metaphors (although she has some that are pretty amaziiing!) but she has a different kind of talent. A talent that gets to us, the readers. You can see her passion in each of her words. It's amazing.
THE PROTAGONIST
I'd never thought so much about a protagonist. Yeah, Katniss Everdeen is amazing, Hermione Granger is great and Aelin Galathinius is freakingly awesome, but Mare Barrow has left me speechless. She's a deep and well-constructed character as many others. So, why do I like her so much? I think it is because I had never read about a character like Mare Barrow before. So perfect. And when I ssay "perfect", I mean: "Look at how many flaws she has, at how many mistakes she makes!" I actually mean: "Thank you for being so imperfect." Because the words "real" and perfect" here actually mean "human". "Thank God you're so human, so perfectly human as you make mistakes and is wrong from time to time." perfecto. Y, cuando digo perfecto, en realidad me refiero a: ""
Many characters in other books make mistakes as well. Mistakes that are only considered mistakes in the story. It's planned that way. They catalogue something as a huge mistake and it turns out to actually be the best decition ever taken in the book. It's meant to be that way, for you to believe it's actually a mistake when it's not. But you actually know it's not, so it's no really even exciting.
But this book is different. Mare Barrow has done so many things wrong that I, as a reader, already knew they were mistakes to make but she did them anyway, and I had to see her suffer the consequences.
Mare Barrow is an extremely deep character and I love her for that. Victoria Aveyard didn't care her character made so many mistakes. She didn't turn Mare into the kind of character she wanted her to be, but she let her be and make as many human mistakes as she wanted to. And that was wonderful.
CONCLUSION
"Glass Sword" by Victoria Aveyard is the second book of the "Red Queen" trilogy; a fascinating trilogy full of passion, mystery, romance, action and suspense.
Do I recommend it to you? YES! YOU HAVE TO READ THIS TRILOGY! Believe me, it's the most original thing I've ever read.
*SPOILER FREE REVIEW*
Mare Barrow’s blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control.
The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince—the friend—who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind.
Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors.
But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat.
Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever?
I had read the first book of this trilogy a long time ago now, so I didn't remember it well in detail; but when I saw "Glass Sword", I decided to read it, even though I didn't remember much about what the whole thing was about. I loved its cover, as much as I'd loved the one in the previous book and it seemed to have great critics on its back cover.
At first I decided to read it immediately, but it turned out I didn't understand most of what was going on as I didn't remember what had happened in the previous book. So I read again "Red Queen" and, wow, I loved it. I told my friend that I was reading it again and that I was lovin' it and she told me: "Really? That's weird! When I first asked you about it you told me you didn't like it and that it wasn't worth it." Really? How very wrong I was! I loved "Red Queen" and I loved even more the second book of the trilogy!
WRITING STYLE
The characters are definitely my favorite part of this whole thing, but I guess that's due to the author. The character of this trilogy are unique, just unique. The world created in this story is reflected in them at every moment, full of treason and injustice. Victoria Aveyard builds her characters in an excellent way, truly deep and real for the reader. Every character gets to you! Whether its love or hate you feel for them, it gets to you. Victoria Aveyard knows the exact way to get to her readers. She takes you INTO that scary world that you'll end up loving and wishing to never leave. She's a wonderful writer! Maybe she's not full of metaphors (although she has some that are pretty amaziiing!) but she has a different kind of talent. A talent that gets to us, the readers. You can see her passion in each of her words. It's amazing.
THE PROTAGONIST
I'd never thought so much about a protagonist. Yeah, Katniss Everdeen is amazing, Hermione Granger is great and Aelin Galathinius is freakingly awesome, but Mare Barrow has left me speechless. She's a deep and well-constructed character as many others. So, why do I like her so much? I think it is because I had never read about a character like Mare Barrow before. So perfect. And when I ssay "perfect", I mean: "Look at how many flaws she has, at how many mistakes she makes!" I actually mean: "Thank you for being so imperfect." Because the words "real" and perfect" here actually mean "human". "Thank God you're so human, so perfectly human as you make mistakes and is wrong from time to time." perfecto. Y, cuando digo perfecto, en realidad me refiero a: ""
Many characters in other books make mistakes as well. Mistakes that are only considered mistakes in the story. It's planned that way. They catalogue something as a huge mistake and it turns out to actually be the best decition ever taken in the book. It's meant to be that way, for you to believe it's actually a mistake when it's not. But you actually know it's not, so it's no really even exciting.
But this book is different. Mare Barrow has done so many things wrong that I, as a reader, already knew they were mistakes to make but she did them anyway, and I had to see her suffer the consequences.
Mare Barrow is an extremely deep character and I love her for that. Victoria Aveyard didn't care her character made so many mistakes. She didn't turn Mare into the kind of character she wanted her to be, but she let her be and make as many human mistakes as she wanted to. And that was wonderful.
CONCLUSION
"Glass Sword" by Victoria Aveyard is the second book of the "Red Queen" trilogy; a fascinating trilogy full of passion, mystery, romance, action and suspense.
Do I recommend it to you? YES! YOU HAVE TO READ THIS TRILOGY! Believe me, it's the most original thing I've ever read.
Do I recommend it to you? YES! YOU HAVE TO READ THIS TRILOGY! Believe me, it's the most original thing I've ever read.
~Writer♥.
~Writer♥.
Hola Julieta!!
ResponderEliminarPor casualidad conoci tu rincón y mira vos me encantó, seguramente me quedo por aqui.
Esta ha sido mi ultima lectura, me ha gustado un montón, pese a ser un libro bastante largo, engancha y lei en nada. Sin embargo, Mare no termina por ser mi personaje favorito, me pareció demasiado fria, pero para gustos colores...jaja
Besitos
Hola! Me alegro de que te guste el blog, significa mucho :)
EliminarMare también ha terminado siendo uno de mis personajes favoritos. Es verdad que es bastante fría, pero es uno de los personajes más humanos que jamás he visto en un libro. Amé eso!
Un besote!
Hola.
ResponderEliminarYa he visto muchas reseñas de esta novela, así que supongo que le tendré que dar una oportunidad. Yo también tengo un blog de reseñas literarias: http://jimenadelaalmena.blogspot.com Si te pasas serás bien recibida, yo me quedo por aquí, siguiéndote por google+.
Un beso.
Hola! Sí, la verdad que esta trilogía es muy buena. Para ser honesta, yo tampoco le tenía mucha fé al principio, pero ahora me encanta. Te la recomiendo plenamente.
EliminarAhí me he pasado por tu blog y he empezado a seguirlo Y a ti por Google+.
Beso!
ToT yo aun lloro por una muerte... es que no me la imagine, no la esperaba y fue tan fuerte. Síp, llore un poco a raíz de esas persona. ;O;
ResponderEliminarCreo que es una muy buena saga ♥
Espero pronto leerme la tercera parte :3