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happilyeveralli's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Death of parent, Racism, and Death
Minor: Sexism
mindins's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Death and Sexism
Moderate: Kidnapping, Violence, Death, and Drug use
Minor: Alcohol and Infertility
seforana's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Chronic illness, Violence, and Blood
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexism, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal cruelty
krisalexcole's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Violence, Blood, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Murder
Moderate: Confinement, Infertility, Alcohol, Body horror, Death of parent, Racism, Drug use, Gore, Kidnapping, Sexism, and Torture
Minor: Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, and Vomit
Gamblingliteraryinluv's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, and Drug use
Moderate: Death, Addiction, Alcohol, and Blood
Minor: Alcoholism, Infertility, Rape, Colonisation, Sexism, Abandonment, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Misogyny, Murder, and Physical abuse
bblanka's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Death, Kidnapping, Infertility, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Blood, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Death of parent and Drug use
epellicci's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Sexism
Moderate: Gore and Violence
Minor: Addiction and Torture
jura_atmos's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Sexism, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Suicide attempt, and Misogyny
sudatot's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Misogyny, Kidnapping, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Addiction, Death, Violence, Confinement, Chronic illness, War, Infertility, Drug abuse, Terminal illness, Self harm, Physical abuse, Murder, Dysphoria, Body horror, Ableism, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Drug use
Moderate: Car accident, Medical content, Sexism, Alcohol, Death of parent, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, and Infidelity
Minor: Bullying
dododenise's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Never has a reading experience of mine been so subjective. Maybe that is why I’m not sure whether I really liked this book or not. I’ve first visited the shadowhunter world with 12, 7 years ago. I fell in love with it. I don’t think I’ve ever read more than when I read the mortal instruments series. For this book, I wanted to get that experience back. I’m not a child anymore, but as I still like YA as much as I did then, so I thought it possible. For that I went back and listened to the exact same music I also listened to when I read the mortal instrument. In the past few years, that music had always been able to pull me back into that world and fill me with nostalgia. Therefore, it happened even more while reading a shadowhunter book. It gave me the same feeling. But through gaining back that same feeling, I didn’t know what to make of this book specifically.
I wasn’t really drawn into this book. I wish it did but I could’ve just left it be in the middle of it and I would’ve been fine with it. But I still enjoyed reading it.
Will and Jem feel like versions of Jace and Alec. Maybe I just misremember how they really were, but their personalities seemed almost interchangeable. Idk whether that is something to like, considering I like Jace and Alec, or just really lazy.
And then there’s the love triangle of course. I honestly think they would work brilliantly in a polyamorous relationship. They’d bounce of each other so well. They already do now as friends (are they friends? Idk how to describe their current relationship). I’m probably setting myself up for disappointment hoping for it.
The highlight of this book, without a doubt, was Magnus. He was so much better than I remember him being and I really hope he’ll get a bigger role in the next two books.
This review ended up being so long it seems I had a lot more thoughts about it than I thought I did. But even from writing this I’m still not sure how much I actually liked the book.
Graphic: Blood, Death, Addiction, and Violence
Moderate: Death of parent and Drug use
Minor: Sexism, Infidelity, and Alcohol