Mare Barrow Sparknotes

Mare Barrow: a thief and her family shame. Her older brothers: Bree, Tramy, and Shade had already been conscription and sent to the war. That was Mare fate as well, being sent in at eighteen, and allowing to leave after five years of service. Unlike her sister, Gisa, who was extremely good at sewing: if you did not have a job at eighteen you were sent to the army. Until her birthday, Mare was a pickpocket, stealing from the Silvers that walked through her town, selling the items to the black market, a job that her mother and father shame her for. Not that Mare had that much hope for her future, after all she was a red. Through a way of evolution, humans got divided between the ones with red blood, and the ones with silver. The silver blooded people possessed powers, types like growing trees, being super strong, breaking glass by screaming, turning skin to stone: real X Men type deal. …show more content…
Tiberia, Cal and Maven, are all fire manipulators, where Elara is telepathy and mind control. After only a few hours working as a servant for the Silvers, Mare revealed to have electro kinesis powers, able to control lightning. With no red ever in history reported to how powers, King Tiberia sets up the plan to make Mare the lost daughter of Ethan Titanos, calling her Mareena, and said how she was raised by a red family after her father’s military death. Making her engaged to Maven, the non-heir prince, Mare decides to accept the plan as the only other option is death. Still, she is not going to be some pawn. Joining the rebellion ground, the Scarlet Guards, Mare is ready to make the Silvers pay, no matter the