This contains spoilers of RED QUEEN so please don't read on if you haven't finished the first book. 
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 Glass Sword was a disappointment and had a bad case of Middle book syndrome and joins the ranks of the many dystopian second books. 
 In this book Mare has just finished escaping the bowl of bones and her and Cal's execution, she has found out her Brother Shade is alive. We burst into action start of at a great pace! Fight scenes, fire, electricity shooting people down and general badassary which made me amazingly happy. I was so excited that the book could only get better from here! 
 Then we got to the middle of the book and we sloooowed right down. 
 Mare went from complete Bad-ass into whiny love sick puppy. I do get it, she has issues, but seriously all her inner dialog was killing me! Can we stop talking about warm eyes and body heat and move onto the task of finding the other Reds with powers! Arghhh 
 The ending of the book does pick up again but Mares character stays whiny and mopey (albeit she has more reason towards the end but still) 
 (view spoiler)[Now for some spoilers because I'd like to rant a bit about the decision to kill off Shade! I didn't see the need in it and thought it was just added in for shock value? I am just heartless because I new this was supposed to be heartbreaking but felt nothing I just didn't care! 
 I liked Shade but never felt a connection him. Mare had a strained relationship with Shade which felt strange as they kept saying they were the closest out of the siblings but I saw none of that. 
 He has some kind of funny moments but the only reason I liked him was to see a softer side of Farley. 
 The Cal-Mare romance to me seems both over the top and not enough. Mares wanting and thinking about him is so intense and repeated a lot but when they sleep in the same tent we get no meaningful late night convos, no secrete smiles or anything that even resembles friendship. I mean he cries into her back and she thinks its best to just let him deal with shit himself! If you like him so much comfort the boy! 
 I had some problems with Cal in himself. He still doesn't see Reds as equals, he will kill Reds but not his own Silvers?? how does that make any sense, you are supposed to be a King and a hero! I don't know where Vic is going with this but hopefully it all has a point and we see some major character development. (hide spoiler)] 
 All in all this was very meh but I will be reading the third book! I hope this picks up again and Maven helps improve the story!