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caesar2014's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Child death
Moderate: Gore
Minor: Infertility
bookthief's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
The last chapters were super intense. The battle and everything with Sebastian. I can’t believe he’s back again and now properly controlling Jace as well which is super sad.
Simons character development was pretty good, he learns more about being a vampire and on his way to accepting it. I was upset when he bit Maureen but I guess I was expecting something like that to happen soon. What I wasn’t expecting was the she would come back as a vampire and then she just left so I hope in the next book we can see what has actually happened to her. I did not like the fact that Simon was dating Maia and Isabelle, like just go out with Izzy they were super cute together.
Jordan and Maia would make a super cute couple I loved that Maia is slowly becoming more accepting of Jordan. They would be super cute.
I love Magnus and Alec, they need more time together in the books !!!
Jace and Clary as always had a very rocky relationship throughout the book, but when they did get on I loved their dynamic.
Overall it was pretty good but thought it could have been executed better especially the first half of the book.
Also I loved the fact that Will Herondale was mentioned!!!
Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Child death, Torture, Death, Murder, and Violence
oystersauce's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Graphic: Child death, Violence, and Blood
Moderate: Death, Gore, and Torture
Minor: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Domestic abuse
breedawnwriter's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Blood, Child death, Death, and Gore
Moderate: Sexual content, Cursing, and Body horror
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Physical abuse, and Domestic abuse
gibbse97's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Gore, Death, and Child death
kybearbroski's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Gore, Mental illness, Child death, Torture, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Body horror
qcupquake's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
- ...ok where to start
- i love this series with my whole heart and soul but i don't even have words for this
- the plot was confusing, it stretched out for what felt like so long and it only got good when
- so the plot from what i've gathered is...
- it's a bit boring but then the ending realLLY started to get good.
- yk i really wish they made the rest of the books into movies bc i know dAMN WELL that jamie campbell bower would absolutely NAIL the way
- anyways i LOVED the ending and that kinda redeemed it for me
- i can't tell which i liked more, coa or cofa but idk. it wasn't as good as cob or cog
-THE CLIFFHANGER OH MY GODDDDDDDD I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE WHERE THIS GOES
Graphic: Blood, Child death, Violence, and Gore
spurreys's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Los giros de trama que tiene por primera vez desde el primer libro me generan algún tipo de sorpresa y, aunque me parece demasiado en cierto puntos, dentro de la lógica que estableció la misma saga están bien, así que me dejo llevar por la corriente. Si el resto de la saga continúa con este ritmo, me parece que voy a poder terminarla pronto.
ps. No sé si el libro es un cuatro punto tres como puse, o mis estándares estaban por el piso con el anterior que hizo que este valga tanto. No lo sé. Tampoco me importa mucho.
Graphic: Gore, Blood, and Violence
ramireads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Gore, Child death, and Torture
roget's review
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
Update: Finally finished it on a whim. There was a lot of cringing, incredulous "what"-ing, and the like. I don't recommend this book to ANYONE with trauma from a domestic violence or infidelity history, as some of the material will likely be incredibly triggering. Probably don't read this review. It's unfiltered, my initial impressions, and slightly unhinged with frustration.
Clary proceeded to be the least likeable person in the book, still. Very much reads like something written during the era when we were judging celebs for shaving their heads or daring to be a size 10/12.
Jace's issues were incredibly frustrating, and the line of delineation between Jace's actual trauma and what's being caused by the big bad's is often unclear.
Strong points: Luke is usually the only person with some amount of common sense, and Max's prior death continued to be painful. Watching them all continue to try to go on without him was rough, and it didn't feel like it was glossed over much.
The end of it seems to create YET MORE opportunities for grossness that I'd hoped we'd left behind us, which makes me want to throw up in my mouth.
Jace is hard to like because the narrative is clearly so in love with him but he's also clearly so dysfunctional and absolutely awful at communicating about it. It's like everyone's always like "Oh, he's so HOT and TORTURED and look at his muscles and how HOT he is and how much every girl ever WANTS him" which is a bit much to take when he is ten kinds of immature and in need of serious intervention on top of being, what. Sixteen? Seventeen? A literal child. (Ugh. Can you tell I'm not the YA target audience? Even still, I don't think adolescent me would've found him all that appealing.) Gross, gross, gross. You'd at least think that the other POV's would be less complimentary to Jace, but Simon's even all "Wow. Jace is so cool and nonchalant and BROKEN INSIDE." I mean, this boy manages to be so toxic Clary thinks he's ending things because of a 24 hour gap of contact. (And that in and of itself was mind-bendingly melodramatic. Like, the text read like a parody of YA romance--like something written to make fun of it.) I just have a really difficult time believing that Clary and Jace love each other the way they're constantly thinking they do when they jump to conclusions, keep secrets, and treat each other like vipers that might strike out and cause damage at any moment.
Yet these books always sort of patch it up right at the very end so Clary and Jace can have an "us against the world" moment before the credits roll. TLDR: as an adult, I do not find teenage Jace appealing in the slightest, so it's really rough trying to slog through Clary's perpetual drooling.
And don't even get me started on Simon's nonsense this book. Totally disappointing. OH. AND the fourteen year old? Did NOT like Simon biting her. That set off so many alarm bells. Even though Simon doesn't see Maureen that way, the scene read very predatorial, and Clare wasn't careful about the way that was unpacked. The text didn't make it into something nearly as disgusting as it should've been. I also find it near-impossible to believe that Jace and Jordan would've let Simon out of the apartment had he been in that bad of shape. I don't think Simon would've neglected himself to that degree. He's not stupid. He wouldn't be like, "Oh, neglecting to feed--I can do that. It doesn't matter." No. He'd be hyper-cautious, taking all steps he could to try to mitigate the risk he presents to others.
So I don't buy that for a minute. The conflict there felt completely contrived out of a series of bad decisions to get Simon to not have agency and do something shocking and monstrous to give us a jump scare.
Why am I reading this? Mostly anthropological urge to track this cultural phenomenon from when I was a tween/teen. But every time I pick one of these books up, I'm reminded why I have to take the series in VERY. SMALL. DOSES.
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Graphic: Self harm, Toxic friendship, Blood, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Child death, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Grief, Incest, Dysphoria, Gore, Vomit, Infertility, Mental illness, Stalking, Domestic abuse, Torture, Death of parent, and Sexual content