War Storm by Victoria Aveyard
Victory comes at a price.
Mare Barrow learned this all too well when Cal’s betrayal nearly destroyed her. 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.
But 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. Cal’s powerful Silver allies, alongside Mare and the Scarlet Guard, prove a formidable force. 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.
War is coming, and all Mare has fought for hangs in the balance. Will victory be enough to topple the Silver kingdoms? Or will the little lightning girl be forever silenced?
This will be a pretty short review for fear of spoiling much for this book (or the series), but wanted to share my review since I did finally finish reading this.
I’ve noticed that when I know I’m reading the last book in the series, I really drag my feet reading it. It takes me forever. Usually this is because I love the series so gosh-darn much that I know if I start reading, I won’t get anything done. Or get to sleep. And sleep is precious to me and time is in short supply right now.
So I did finish reading War Storm this fall and I was very, very happy with it. It’s no easy feat to wrap up such a massive story and really, no matter what you do some of your readers are going to be unhappy with you. I couldn’t imagine having to write a series with so much hype around it, knowing you’re kind of damned if you do, damned if you don’t with your story decisions.
I am glad this series is wrapped though. The Red Queen series was one I loved with such an intensity that it actually made the reading experience kind of exhausting. There are few books that really get in deep enough that my thoughts tend to drift back to them over and over again, to the point where it feels consuming and obsessive. Throne of Glass, Red Rising, The Passage, The 5th Wave, and Game of Thrones have all been that way for me and there’s honestly only so many of these series I can take at a time.
I am looking forward to the book of short stories I know are coming in the Red Queen universe and I know Aveyard is working on another project that looks super intriguing. I do hope she’ll come back to this universe…so much world-building was done for Red Queen that there’s a lot of story to be mined here.
And yes, I still really, really want to be best friends with the author…she’s kind of my spirit animal!
