missathebookworm's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
clockworkp's review against another edition
5.0
rebyz92's review against another edition
5.0
Forgot to make a review about this one. I was probably just in shock, no big deal it's only been 4 months (shhhus)
Basically when I heard the first surnames of the kids my head started to boil. Then when Brother Zachariah entered the room an ultradimensional force had probably took over my brain and prevented me to throw my Kindle accross the room.
Too soon man.
And Tessa's son name is James.
No.
- error 404 brain not found -
I barely recall what happened after that boardly enough that I see trouble ahead for this kids and as soon as Cassie declared she would use a dicken's novel as basic inspiration I started having serious fears. The Last Hours will kill me for every mention of those 3 characters whose names start with T, W, J. Enough said.
agustinap's review against another edition
3.0
summyrenea's review against another edition
4.0
lucy_qhuay's review against another edition
5.0
My poor heart breaks for James Herondale.
Why? For pity's sake, why? Why do the Herondales suffer so damn much? I said this before, but I'm going to say it again. They are CURSED! CURSED! FREAKIN' CURSED!
imawriter23's review against another edition
3.0
avora's review against another edition
3.0
1. This was better than the previous Bane Chronicle short story. No insipid nonsense words. But ugh, SO. MUCH. TEEN. ANGST. (And warlock angst.) Also, the Bane mancrush on the Herondale men continues.
2. FANFIC. FANFIC. FANFIC. Cassandra Clare has already proven herself the queen of fanfic, as the whole Shadowhunter world was based on Harry Potter. This short story absolutely screamed Great Expectations.
Spoiler
Enter James Herondale as Pip:“I am not like my father,” he said. “Do not mistake my despair for nobility in disguise, for it is not that. I suffer for myself, not for anyone else.”
Then Tatiana Blackthorn as Miss Havisham:
"Her eyes were still very green. Her stern mouth was bracketed with lines of bitter disappointment and grave pain. She looked like a woman in her sixties, not her forties. She was wearing a gown of a fashion decades past—it hung from her wasted shoulders and fluttered around her body like a shroud. The fabric bore dark brown stains, but in patches it was a faded pastel bordering on white, while other spots remained what Magnus thought must have been its original fuchsia."
And finally, Grace Blackthorn as Estella:
"Grace knelt at her adoptive mother’s side on the grimy floor. She knelt daintily, delicately, her skirts billowing around her like the petals of a flower. Magnus supposed that it must have been a habit with her to come to rest in filth, and rise from it to all outward appearance radiantly pure."
"They had wrapped his heart in silks and velvet, and then he had given it to Grace Blackthorn, and she had spun for it a cage of razor wire and broken glass, burned it to bits, and blown away the remains, another layer of ashes in this place of beautiful horrors."
I don't know if it can get more black and white than that. The thing that I found kind of upsetting was that as I was reading through some the reviews on here, I found very few people made the connection. It was mostly fangirling about how good this story was. Yeah, it was good (well, better than the previous ones, at least) because it was based on a classic, a novel that has withstood the test of time.
scostanzo42's review against another edition
4.0