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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
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
Truly a beautiful telling of two characters that are easy to love. I continue to appreciate the way Cassandra Clare provides queer representation in a real and beautiful way. She also is just an excellent author and I would read anything she writes.
I loved everything about this book. Didn’t realize how rare lgbt+ rep was in fantasy/ adventure novels until I was in the middle of this one. I had so much fun. I loved seeing their relationship grow. I love how the conflict didn’t revolve around them breaking up/ relationship conflict etc. I love Alec, we stan a hopeless romantic. Magnus’s one liners always had me laughing. The joke cult was perfect for this book as a main plot
cassie clare where everyone is (canonically) gay???? literally perfect
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
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
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book reminded me how much I love the Shadowhunter world and made me adore Magnus and Alec even more than I thought was possible.
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Skippable.
Anything set in the Shadowhunters universe that has co-authors instead of just Cassandra Clare reads like fan fiction to me and I’m simply not interested. I feel forced to read them though because for whatever reason she’s decided these stories are cannon and has taken to including important information in them. For example the introduction of the lost Herondale and our first look at characters like Matthew Fairchild, James Herondale and Anna Lightwood in TFTSA and GOTSM. So here I am reading this.
This wasn’t the worst one because I do really love Malec but I do think you can have too much of a good thing. This just felt so cliché and boring and none of what in my opinion makes Malec so lovable in the main series. It felt like this book was written to achieve not much other than to give people an LGBT book. The plot really isn’t there and we get a meeting between Helen and Aline who we already know end up together but that’s about it. And it’s the most generic LGBT story of all time not knowing if your family and community will accept you, progressing into who cares if they do I don’t need to change they do…. Snooze.
I assume given the next book in the eldest curses trilogy is the lost book of the white that this will all eventually tie in with events of TDA so I will continue to push through but I’m not invested.
p.s. placing my bet now that if Magnus is an eldest curse and Shinyun suggested at the end Ragnor is one that Catarina is the third.
Anything set in the Shadowhunters universe that has co-authors instead of just Cassandra Clare reads like fan fiction to me and I’m simply not interested. I feel forced to read them though because for whatever reason she’s decided these stories are cannon and has taken to including important information in them. For example the introduction of the lost Herondale and our first look at characters like Matthew Fairchild, James Herondale and Anna Lightwood in TFTSA and GOTSM. So here I am reading this.
This wasn’t the worst one because I do really love Malec but I do think you can have too much of a good thing. This just felt so cliché and boring and none of what in my opinion makes Malec so lovable in the main series. It felt like this book was written to achieve not much other than to give people an LGBT book. The plot really isn’t there and we get a meeting between Helen and Aline who we already know end up together but that’s about it. And it’s the most generic LGBT story of all time not knowing if your family and community will accept you, progressing into who cares if they do I don’t need to change they do…. Snooze.
I assume given the next book in the eldest curses trilogy is the lost book of the white that this will all eventually tie in with events of TDA so I will continue to push through but I’m not invested.
p.s. placing my bet now that if Magnus is an eldest curse and Shinyun suggested at the end Ragnor is one that Catarina is the third.