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"Valentine clasped Lucian's arm in return, but Magnus saw the look Valentine gave Lucian. There was love in that look, but hate as well, and the hate was winning."
-- Cassandra Clare, The Last Stand of the New York Institute

This last Bane Chronicles novella but one completely messed with my emotions. The involvement of particular characters I won't say the name of, brought me to tears. It has been so long but just reading the names themselves bring back all the memories and made me enjoy this novella so much more. Despite it not being anything new, I loved that it played out before my own eyes. New friendships were forged and new promises were made. If for that part only I think I would have gladly given it five stars.

For a moment I forgot the first half of what I'd read, which was a slight disappointment for me. I have always been fascinated by Valentine's Circle, their ideas, why they thought their actions were justice, their behaviour in their teenage years, etc. I have always loved the chance of getting to gain more insight on all those topics, and in general just see more of The Circle itself. Upon reading The Last Stand of the New York Institute, I was prepared to learn more and be blown away. Little did I then knew that new information in this novella was going to be close to nothing. I honestly didn't care for the werewolf child and the discussion between Lucian and Valentine, as we've seen that many times before. The actual Uprising itself fell short and was very rushed in my opinion. When there could have been an entire novella dedicated to things we hadn't seen before, to me it felt like I hadn't learned anything new. Though it now sounds like I'm extremely disappointed, I'm not. I still liked what I've read, but it could have been better.

The Last Stand of the New York Institute by [a:Cassandra Clare|150038|Cassandra Clare|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1270502031p2/150038.jpg]

Liked it.

I loved this short story and Magnus is so funny to follow in his adventures. I love the easy feel to these short stories even though there is a lot that happens within them.

4.25 stelline

I re-read the entire Mortal Instruments series a few months ago in preparation for CoHF, but I still wanted to read something quick today to re-immerse myself in the Shadowhunter world since I'M BUYING CITY OF HEAVENLY FIRE AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT AHHHH.

Anyways, I thought this was the best of the Bane Chronicles (which isn't saying too much, because as a whole I really think this series of novellas is lacking-- even though of course I love Magnus.). It was nice to see Tessa again, as well as members of the Circle in their glory days.

¿Qué puesto decir?
Creo que esta sería mi historia favorita de TBC ¿por qué? Bueno, tiene tantos detalles y te hace recordar en primer lugar el por qué leías TMI que realmente la disfrutas mucho.
Además, volvemos con esa conexión con TID y piensas en esos maravillosos momentos que pasaste con la trilogía.

En di , no debes perderte esta historia en específico, realmente es algo que vale la pena.

One of the best stories in this collection. We meet young Valentine and his circle. Here we also see when Jocelyn went to Magnus for help.

4,5

This was just so beautiful and Tessa in it and Jocelyn and Magnus, everything was so perfect!

This felt like two stories. firThe first one lets us see just how awful the circle were, It made me see some characters in a different light. I personally am not sure I would forgive them for their pasts. The second was the story of how Clary began to get her memories tampered with. Tessa crops up so often I should not have been suprised to see her here. If not for her future stories might have gone very difcirclely. I also enjoyed the origin story of Jocelyn and Clary's mundane name.