I 'wrote' a review for this in my head a few nights ago, while trying to sleep, and have completely forgot it. It was witty and well versed. And now all I can remember is the gist of it.

I remember starting with a comment on how I agree that the way Victoria Aveyard went about starting the book, wanting to write The next big YA series and using her contacts to get herself set up very easily (without the hard work most authors have to do), has meant that the book isn't as well polished as it could have been. The majority of authors have to reread, revise, edit, reread, revise before getting published. I also remember thinking, well, sure if she has the contacts, why the hell shouldn't she use them.

I read Red Queen only a few months away, and enjoyed it. I guess I enjoyed Glass Sword too, just not as much.

Mare, in Glass Sword, is tiresome. She and her internal struggle over what is right and wrong, who she loves and doesn't, is repetitive to say the least. But I also feel it is also pretty accurate to how a 19 year old thrown into such situations probably would be thinking. My problem with it is that the majority of the book is this, and I found myself reading faster to get to the end not because I was enthralled, but because I knew something had to happen at some point.

There was a severe lack of Elara and Maven. They were merely the bad guys in the background. There was a severe lack of action, much of it happening either without Mare or without her recollecting it for our sake. The ending was good, but not enough to make up for the rest of the book.

I probably will read the next book, and the one after that Ms. Aveyard has planned, but I'll probably not buy them full price again. I saw Red Queen brand new in The Works, so maybe I'll keep an eye out there in the future,