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Glass Sword
- Subgenre
- romantasy
- Edition year
- 2018-04-03
- Rating
- ★ 3.6 · 426 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
- Spice
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In a society stratified by blood color—common Red folk and ruling Silvers—Mare Barrow, a Red girl who wields impossible Silver lightning powers, flees the betrayal of her former friend Prince Maven. Pursued by the now-vindictive king, she embarks on a quest to find and recruit other Red-Silver hybrids to build a resistance against the oppressive crown, while confronting ing the danger of becoming the very monster she fights.
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- Betrayal: “her escape from Maven, the prince-the friend-who betrayed her” source
- Strong Heroine: “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” source
- Dystopian: “Mare Barrow's blood is red-the color of common folk” source
- Enemies of the Crown: “join in the struggle against her oppressors” source
- Quest: “Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters” source
- Morally Gray: “at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat” source
- High Fantasy: “her Silver ability, the power to control lightning” source
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