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planetmaven · 3 months

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i'm almost done rereading Glass Sword by Victoeia Aveyard, and I've just realized something about Cal that I didn't notice before.

Growing up, Cal was never my favorite. I favored Maven so much, maybe even a little too much. So, Cal was very annoying to me? I hated his every line and I was very irritated with every word he said and every action he took. But I was 13 at that time.

I am 17 years old now. And I've found a sense of maturity I didn't realize I had once discovering this.

Cal Calore is a burning flame. He is passionate and driven, with a kind heart, but he is indecisive, and this flaw drags him down.

I noticed just how often his trauma is overlooked. Cal lost everything. His mother, at a young age. His father. His brother. His friends. His kingdom. His home. His titles. The list goes on. He was taken from everything he knew and slammed down into an entire new world.

He wasn't even welcomed by the Reds. The first thing they did to Cal was lock him up alone when they reached Tuck.

And then when they met Nix, Nix was immediately taunting Cal for being "seduced by Mare into killing his father", but once Cal reveals the truth of what happened, they all fell silent.

No one. Not a single person, except probably Mare, has asked Cal if he was okay.

Cal lost everything. I mean literally everything. And not once in the whole book did we see him cry, break down, or fall apart.

That is a kind of strength I could never imagine.

#redqueen #glasssword #kingscage #warstorm #victoria aveyard #i literally cannot and could never do yhis hes stronger than me fr #authors #booklr #books & libraries #bookworm #cal calore #mare barrow #maven calore #ren💌cal

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iffoundreturntosea · 3 months

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January 10, Day 10

Day 10 2015

I'm calling it.

#goodnight #project365 #day10

This first year was really difficult to get through, especially this first month!

Day 10 2016

The Caribbean

#airplane #flight #familyfun #caribbean #ocean #clouds #sun #blue #shadesofblue #january #picoftheday #project365 #day10

If I could go back to this plane ride I totally would.

Day 10 2017

Looks like Spot may be in time out!

#spot #drsuess #stuffedtoy #circles #january #picofthday #project365 #day10

Day 10 2018

Ripples in the water at sunset

#lake #lakepatcleburne #water #ripples #sunset #colors #windy #nature #outdoors #outside #keyhole #cutout #january #picoftheday #project365 #day10

Lake Pat Cleburne was my getaway, some place I could pretend it was the ocean.

Day 10 2019

Book instead of Nook

#electricity #book #nook #pages #words #read #hand #point #blackandwhite #turnoffyourdevices #kingscage #victoriaaveyard #cutyourenergycostsday #january #nationalday #nationaldaycalendar #picoftheday #project365 #day10

Day 10 2020

The weather has been so hideous the bees are out!

#iwantsnow #its70andmuggy #eeww #dandelion #wildflower #weedsareflowerstoo #bee #buzz #honeybee #beeUtiful #nature #macro #yellow #color #roygbiv #rainbow #january #january10 #2020 #picoftheday #project365 #day10

I'm always wishing for snow!

Day 10 2021

This was a day of magic and I got to spend it with my snow buddy!

#snow #snowday #texas #winter #dream #magic #love #smile #joy #niece #snowbuddies #lessstressmorefun #whateverthehelliwant #january #january10 #2021 #picoftheday #project365 #day10

And some years I'm actually lucky enough to get snow. This snow was the most magical snow I've ever seen. It was perfect! We spent over 3 hours playing outside.

Day 10 2022

Feeling outta sorts

#art #create #justme #nosignal #outofsorts #january #january10 #2022 #picoftheday #project365 #day10

Sometimes the words just don't come out right. Sometimes they're ignored even if they do.

Day 10 2023

The waves console me during this warm winter.

#waves #water #gulf #cool #refreshing #mermaid #january #january10 #2023 #picoftheday #project365 #day10

I'm not likely to get snow here. sigh

Day 10 2024

Home sweet home

#h #dailytheme #home #homesweethome #homeatlast #timetorelax #january #january10 #2024 #picoftheday #project365 #day10

The 10th day of the 10th year down! Woo!

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dzaaaamn · 3 years

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Kilorn lmaoooo

#redqueen #victoriaaveyard #kilornwarren #kilorn warren #glasssword #kingscage #war storm #tiberiascalorevii #marebarrow #mavencalore #mare barrow #brokenthrone #calorn

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avashades-purpleorange · 2 years

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Mare: How do you do that?

Cal: I'm fearless.

Evangeline: I saw you run from bees yesterday. You flailed around and tripped over a chair. It was both hysterical and sad.

Cal: I'm mostly fearless.

#redqueen #books #red queen #glasssword #glass sword #kingscage #kings cage #mare barrow #tiberius calore #cal #evangeline samos #rq #gs #kc #ws

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lucy-the-cat · 3 years

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As a neurodivergent person, lots of little details about Maven Calore speak to me, but my favorite is the neurotypicals around him think "hey! that's kinda like me" and co-opt his terminology to describe themselves

#wE'Re aLL A liTtlE aDhd #maven #maven calore #mare #mare barrow #cal #cal calore #red queen #glasssword #kingscage #warstorm #calore #barrow #mare's not NT I just couldn't think of a better word

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fancybook · 4 years

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Not Red. Not Silver. Something else. Something more.

#marebarrow #mare barrow #redqueen #redqueenedit #red queen #rq #rqedit #victoria aveyard #glasssword #kingscage #warstorm #lighting girl

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am1ra-kar · 4 years

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I despo wanna be mare🥺⚡💜

Prob for the fierceness, lightning and also coz she fucks cal🤭🤞

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ventureswithbooks · 4 years

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“I am finally learning my lesson. Anyone can betray anyone.” - Red Queen . . 🌟QOTD: what’s your favorite book about rebellion? . . Happy #MapMonday friends! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!! I had an amazing weekend full of reading and sunshine and taking book photos!! When I think of characters fighting for a change one of the first series to come to mind was the Red Queen series. I still haven’t finished the last book in this series (it’s a GIANT one) but hopefully one day I will!! I absolutely loved the first few books. The characters were engaging and I loved the relationship between Mare and Cal and Maven! Plus the twist and turns of the storyline kept me on my toes and of course the whole rebellion and fighting for equality part which was well done. What books have your favorite rebellions in it? . . Day 27: #31FlavorsofBooksJuly - Justice Remix’d - Fighting for Change . . #redqueen #glasssword #kingscage #warstorm #victoriaaveyard #maplove #booksandmaps #ventureswithbooks #rainbowbookshelf #rainbowbooks #rainbowshelf #bookstack #readingismagic #bookcommunity #booksofinstagram #booklove #bookwormsunite #booklovers #readingtogether #bookstagrammer https://www.instagram.com/p/CDJrbILgXT4/?igshid=a5x6m9s787a2

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natthefantastic · 3 years

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Calore Dance Academy// Red Queen AU - Author's Note (on Wattpad) https://my.w.tt/ey39mtHwUab

Following a failed pickpocket attempt, a fall from some stage rafters, and an audition that she never imagined in her wildest dreams, Mare Barrow, street felon by day and wistful ballerina by night, one day finds herself as a dancer for Manhattan's prestigious Calore Dance Academy, owned by the filthy-rich Calore clan. More than that, her partner is Maven Calore, one of the Calore brothers himself. And the pickpocket attempt, of course, was on Maven's older brother and the heir to the Academy, Tiberias "Cal" Calore. Naturally, he orchestrated the whole incident.

A paradigm rags-to-riches success story unfolds, and as the seventeen-year-old climbs up the levels of social class, she dances a dangerous game of love and betrayal when lies are told and secrets are revealed. The gang Mare belongs to, the Scarlet Street Fighters, and the Calore clan are brutal enemies, and the girl, simple as the blood in her veins, is caught right in the crossfire of their bloody war. Mare soon discovers that the Calore family not only has a passion for ballet dancing, but an obsession for power and money. It seems that the Calores control everything, including her own life. And yet, Mare Barrow wonders if the risk of destroying the Calores and their dynasty is worth everything that she's ever wanted.

Part 1//The Empire of the Dancers ~ edited by @FoolishDonut , @BellonaetLibitina , and Serena H. Part 1 edited and revamped by myself as of 3/26/20 *cover image is not my own* Couresty of: Playbuzz *based off of Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard.*

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cassiereine · 4 years

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After years of admiring the crown on the cover of Red Queen, I now own one! This is one of my favorite bookish crowns and I can't stop admiring it. QOTD: What are you currently reading? AOTD: I'm currently retreading Red Queen, so I thought this post would be appropriate. #bookstagram #redqueenseries #redqueen #glasssword #kingscage #warstorm #brokenthrone #victoriaaveyard #bookcrown #booklover #bookworm #booknerd #bookstagramfeature #epicreads #fiercereads https://www.instagram.com/p/CE4G4DUBb-p/?igshid=1fvsp2ia9ccy

#bookstagram #redqueenseries #redqueen #glasssword #kingscage #warstorm #brokenthrone #victoriaaveyard #bookcrown #booklover #bookworm #booknerd #bookstagramfeature #epicreads #fiercereads

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jovvonnaa · 4 years

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Let’s talk about the four part Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard. Included are two more books, one a collectible, the other a book of two novellas she wrote. These two, while not significant to the main story, do still pertain to the characters of Red Queen and I would recommend reading.

In a world where people with silver blood are powerful, rich, elite, and have abilities, those born with red blood are powerless and oppressed. Mare Barrow, a red blooded teen, discovers her abilities to manipulate lightning in front of a court of Silver. To dissolve fear amongst the Silver and hope amongst the Reds, she is forced to become a Silver herself.

10/10 would reccomend! There’s action, romance, betrayal!

Mare Barrow finds herself helping the Scarlet Guard in their goal to demand equality for Reds. She decides the best way to fight the Silvers is by recruiting an army of people like her, Reds with abilities.

8/10 while this was a great book and I loved it, it is my least favorite of the series!

Now in the clutches of a Prince who betrayed, hunted, loves, and now imprisons her, Mare has to find a way to still fight for her cause without the help of her lightning.

10/10! My favorite character is Maven and I still ship Maven and Mare so I really loved reading all of there moments in this book. The bad ones as well as the good ones...if anyone can call any of their shared moments within this book good.

Cal chooses his crown over Mare. Mare chooses her cause over Cal. Both seem to do what they think is best but in the process they must go their separate ways.

10/10!!!!!! This is THE BEST book in the series! Alliances are made, broken, and reformed! It’s totally action packed and keeps you on your toes! You’ll find that characters you may have despised before, are now characters to be loved!!

I’ll post my thoughts/ reviews on the other two separately because I haven’t read them and couldn’t wait to post this!

#redqueen #victoriaaveyard #marebarrow #tiberiascalore #mavencalore #evangelinesamos #glasssword #kingscage #warstorm #books #youngadultbooks #yabooks

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planetmaven · 3 months

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something in my soul is touched when i reread the scene in war storm where maven goes to mare's stilts home and destroys it

it feels like he was in mourning, you know? because he had lost her. he lost her so so many times, but she was so close to him THIS time and she slipped right between his fingers like cupped water.

and it specifically feels like mourning because maven calore didn't feel love. all he ever felt was loss and the idea of love that was more leaned toward obsession. so instead of mourning in sadness and depression like he did with thomas, he mourned with rage and destruction with mare.

#ugh hes so analyzable #ren💌maven #I love him TOO bad.#honestly the contrast between his “love” for thomas and his “love” for mare are so comparable #theres so many things to analyze about maven #i always wonder how mavens kids would have turned out if he had remained king and made an heir w iris..#what would they be like as parents #authors #booklr #books & libraries #bookworm #victoria aveyard #glasssword #kingscage #redqueen #maven calore #mare barrow #war storm

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mybookishlife2 · 4 years

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🌺 #countyourtitlesstack 🌺 I was tagged by @booksandbakes16 to the countmytitle tag and to see if I can make it to 8! I cannot but I can make it to 7. but I have read a book with 8 words, does that sorta count? 🤣 I have actually read 4 of the 7. Yay! Props to me! My TBR shelves is now up to 50… 🙈🙊🙉 can I read them this year? I have 6 months so I doubt it. Books Read: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before | Jenny Han | 3.75/5 The Beauty of Darkness | Mary E. Pearson | 5/5 Throne of Glass | Sara J Maas | 4/5 King’s Cage | Victoria Aveyard | 5/5 To be Read: A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sara J Maas An Ember in the Ashes | Sabaa Tahir Caraval | Stephanie Garber 🌺 Hashtags: #bookstagram #yabooks #bookdragon #bookaholic #bookspine #bookstack #bookishlife #readerforlife #ToAllTheBoys #JennyHan #ACOTAR #SJMaas #acourtofthornsandroses #AnEmberintheAshes #SabaaTahir #TheBeautyofDarkness #MaryEPearson #ThroneofGlass #KingsCage #RedQueenSeries #Vaveyard #victoriaaveyard #Caraval #StephanieGarber #yafantasybooks #yaromancenovels https://www.instagram.com/p/CCeNWV7A_AE/?igshid=1kgx4fb9e6w64