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cherrygray's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Death, Violence, Blood, and War
Minor: Child death, Homophobia, Death of parent, Outing, Abandonment, and War
tr_born'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? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Incest and Violence
Moderate: Child death
maruu_t's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Physical abuse, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder
khloereads86'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? It's complicated
3.25
Moderate: Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Death of parent
Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, and Incest
sapphic_reader's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
Rep:
Gay side character
Graphic: Incest, Blood, and Murder
Moderate: Violence and Kidnapping
Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, and Homophobia
fremzz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Death, Gore, and Incest
Moderate: Child abuse and Child death
Minor: Alcohol
vici24kl'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? It's complicated
2.0
Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood, and Murder
Minor: Animal death, Child death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent
danaleelin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, and Murder
feuillycakes's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I enjoyed that Clary is not a perfect character as usually happens with main ya characters written around this time. She can be a total b-word (you choose which) and knows it. She loses her temper and gets irrationally jealous and is horrible at times and doesn’t excuse that. I can respect that in a character. It’s rare.
Surprisingly, the only other character I understood as well as Clary was Simon. This is probably because she knows him the best and we are in third person limited, but even when she wasn’t understanding his actions or feelings I could tell what was up. Their friendship was honestly the best and most developed relationship in the book and I won’t back down on that.
Mostly what I noticed was these teenagers talk like teenagers, they act like teenagers and think like teenagers and that must be such a flex for this author around all her author friends. How many people can claim to be able to write teenagers so accurately even a decade on they still hold up? I’m telling you besides the off colour remarks here and there and that part where Clary straight up outs someone (who knew already but still) these could be present day teens who just don’t swear.
So yeah, average.
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Violence
Minor: Incest
aria_'s review against another edition
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, and Blood