To learn more about Steel Scars, the other Red Queen stories , and Victoria Aveyard, visit the author’s website, blog, Twitter feed, or Facebook page. Maybe the latest novel, Glass Sword (which came out on Tuesday), will focus a little more on Farley and make her early actions more relevant.

I think that connection could have been explored a bit more, but that’s just my opinion.Įven though I ended up liking Steel Scars for the most part, I guess I was expecting more. I wanted to like this story as much as I did Red Queen and Queen Song, and I just didn’t. (If you feel differently, please let me know in the comments.) I did, however, appreciate seeing how Farley’s path intersected with Mare’s. My biggest issue here is that Farley didn’t make much of an impact on me in Red Queen, so I didn’t feel that I simply had to know about her early work with the Scarlet Guard. (I’m trying not to spoil too much here, but the character I’m referring to has a connection to Mare. It also gives readers at a look at one of the characters from Red Queen that was a bit of a surprise at the end. We see more about how the Scarlet Guard operates and the plans they have in motion. Once you figure out how it’s set up, it adds some depth to Farley’s part in the series as a whole. So…is Steel Scars a bad story? Certainly not. Either way, it wasn’t easy for me to keep 100% of my attention on this story. Or maybe it was because I didn’t feel a huge connection to Farley in the first place. Maybe it was all of the military-like correspondence. This story is the second Red Queen prequel novella, and, unlike Queen Song before it, I found it kind of difficult to get through this one. Last night, I forced myself to sit down and finish reading Steel Scars, which gives a little more background on the character of Farley, a member of the Scarlet Guard, from Red Queen.

Otherwise, I doubt much of it will make sense.

It is a very good idea to read Red Queen before this story so that you have a bit of context.

Steel Scars is the second novella in Victoria Aveyard’s Red Queen series.

Steel scars by victoria aveyard