Lynnie
fantasy, novella
Steel Scars is a novella by Victoria Aveyard from the Red Queen series. It provides Farley's back-information and tells part of the tale from Red Queen, but from Farley's point of view.
Amy's Review
It was nice to learn how Farley met Shade and ended up being in a position to work with Mare. However, it did not give me any critical pieces of information. The format was difficult to follow sometimes and the storyline was jerky. I prefer that authors stick to their full-length novels and publish the sequels sooner instead of creating sub-par novellas to attempt to fill the gaps. This series now has two published novels I loved and two published novellas which felt like time-wasters. I probably won't read any further novellas from this series and just stick to the novels.
Lynnie's Review
I enjoyed this Red Queen novella more than Aveyard's other novella, Queen Song. It was interesting to learn more about Farley and a bit about Shade Barrow as well.
That said, it's still a pretty dull read. I hope that in some way this backstory of the Red Guard will add some value to my reading of Glass Sword, but I'm starting to have my doubts.
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