Victoria Aveyard was born and raised in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, a small town known only for the worst traffic rotary in the continental United States. She moved to Los Angeles to earn a BFA in screenwriting at the University of Southern California. She currently splits her time between the East and West coasts. As an author and screenwriter, she uses her career as an excuse to read too many books and watch too many movies. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Red Queen series, and you can visit her online at www.victoriaaveyard.com.
Praise for the Red Queen series:
?"Simmering with internal conflict and well-devised courtly
scheming." -- Kirkus Reviews"A sizzling, imaginative thriller,
where romance and revolution collide, where power and justice duel.
It's exhilarating. Compelling. Action-packed. Unputdownable." --
USA Today"High-stakes excitement and sharp plot twists... make this
a fast-paced, exciting read and a thrilling sequel." --
Booklist"The action hits the ground running and doesn't stop until
after the last page is turned." -- School Library
Journal"Fast-paced and action packed, Glass Sword is compelling and
strong, guaranteed to gratify anxious readers of the series and
fans of dystopian and fantasy literature." -- Voice of Youth
Advocates (VOYA)"A volatile world with a dynamic heroine." --
Booklist"Breakneck pace and engaging characters." -- School Library
Journal"Aveyard weaves a compelling new world of action-packed
surprises... inventive, character-driven." -- Kirkus
Reviews"[Aveyard] sets her audience up for a gaspworthy twist that
reconfigures nearly every character's role and leaves Mare with no
one to trust but herself... This blend of fantasy and dystopia will
be an unexpected and worthy addition to many genre fans' reading
list." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books"Fascinating
world building... Readers will be intrigued by a world that
reflects today's troubling issues concerning ethnic inequality,
unfair distribution of wealth, pollution, warfare, political
corruption, and the frightening power of the media." -- Voice of
Youth Advocates (VOYA)Praise for the Realm Breaker series:
?"The entire time I was reading REALM BREAKER, I wanted one thing:
for the book to never end. It is classic yet groundbreaking,
romantic yet edgy, a rollicking adventure that carries you along at
a relentless pace. A true fantasy masterpiece." -- Sabaa Tahir, #1
New York Times bestselling author of the An Ember in the Ashes
series. "Set in a sprawling world of warring empires and
hair-raising magic that any reader would want to get lost in, REALM
BREAKER is a fantasy fan's dream, injected with Aveyard's trademark
action, heart, and razor-sharp characters." -- Roseanne A. Brown,
New York Times Bestselling Author of A Song of Wraiths and
Ruin"Realm Breaker is the kind of book you take with you to your
favorite reading chair. The world is rich and built with deep care;
the characters are complex and flawed; the story is filled with the
kind of sweeping scale that fantasy does best. This is a new
classic." -- Marie Lu, #1 New York Times bestselling author of
Skyhunter"An enthralling adventure, a richly imagined world, and
the most impossible odds combine to make Realm Breaker an
addictive, tightly-paced gem of a book. Readers will delight in
Aveyard's bewitching new beginning, all at once epic in scope and
intimate in detail. It's the adventure I was desperate to go on as
a teenager and the kind of story I eagerly devour as an adult." --
Emma Theriault, author of Rebel Rose"Like Aveyard's hit Red Queen
books, this series starter is a hefty tome with well-mapped details
of lands, monsters, and people. Rotating narrators keep the story
fresh and leave readers wanting more." -- Booklist"[Blade Breaker]
builds to a nail-biting reckoning of a climax... Will leave readers
gasping for more." -- Kirkus Reviews
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