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ghood_27's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
fast-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
4.5
giovannaaaaaaaaaaa's review
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
starfleckedsoul's review
5.0
For years, since the very hour that I've known about Cassandra Clare's announcement that there will be a separate series about this generation of Shadowhunters in the Edwardian era, I have been mulling over a tinge of doubt and worry. Doubt that maybe I will not come to love these new Shadowhunters and worry that the series will not meet my expectations. I was excited for Chain of Gold though, it was the characters I was worried about. BUT.
EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED. I have certainly come to love everyone in this book except Tatiana , Grace, Charles, and Belial. The way Clare writes her characters is something that i will always applaud, she really knows how to make you love and feel for every one of her characters. I also have noticed that even though these characters in Chain of Gold are offsprings of those we love in TID, her writing has made it seem so that we won't be meeting copies of those characters. It's like seeing our beloved TID characters in them, but they're their own personalities. Like, i was trying to see how James was like Will or Jace, but i couldn't place him because he was James, he was different. And Matthew, he remains to be one of the mysteries I've yet to unravel in the next two books. Oh, and the female protagonists. There's this air of women empowerment in the likes of Cordelia and Lucie, the way their carry themselves with everyone else is something i admire.
I would also like to highlight, really, how humanizing Cassandra Clare has applied the inequality between genders during this time period (since TID) that anchors a reader to the fact that this book isn't entirely uninfluenced by mundane beliefs.
And need i mention the twists?! They are killing me!
What I loved most about this book, though, is how ... Perhaps, light, it was. Yes, it was light to read. It's funny, mysterious, dramatic, it's everything I've ever loved in a book. And i am charmed. Here's to another year of suffering the agony of waiting.
EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED. I have certainly come to love everyone in this book except Tatiana , Grace, Charles, and Belial. The way Clare writes her characters is something that i will always applaud, she really knows how to make you love and feel for every one of her characters. I also have noticed that even though these characters in Chain of Gold are offsprings of those we love in TID, her writing has made it seem so that we won't be meeting copies of those characters. It's like seeing our beloved TID characters in them, but they're their own personalities. Like, i was trying to see how James was like Will or Jace, but i couldn't place him because he was James, he was different. And Matthew, he remains to be one of the mysteries I've yet to unravel in the next two books. Oh, and the female protagonists. There's this air of women empowerment in the likes of Cordelia and Lucie, the way their carry themselves with everyone else is something i admire.
I would also like to highlight, really, how humanizing Cassandra Clare has applied the inequality between genders during this time period (since TID) that anchors a reader to the fact that this book isn't entirely uninfluenced by mundane beliefs.
And need i mention the twists?! They are killing me!
What I loved most about this book, though, is how ... Perhaps, light, it was. Yes, it was light to read. It's funny, mysterious, dramatic, it's everything I've ever loved in a book. And i am charmed. Here's to another year of suffering the agony of waiting.
amzs's review
4.0
while the plot may be mediocre at best, one cannot deny the appeal of the idiocy of the main characters. love them. 10/10 would die for them.
contrary to popular beliefs i enjoy grace, sneakiness and ambition are top tier villain traits. too bad for james though.
i do have to admit the books biggest flaw is the lack of thomastairs. i hope to see enemies to lovers excellence in the upcoming books.
contrary to popular beliefs i enjoy grace, sneakiness and ambition are top tier villain traits. too bad for james though.
i do have to admit the books biggest flaw is the lack of thomastairs. i hope to see enemies to lovers excellence in the upcoming books.
magikspells's review against another edition
1.0
Lately I feel like I've been reading a lot like how I watch tv, I've been going back to stories that I'm familiar with (either through the setting or characters) because it means that I don't have to give it my full attention. That's definitely what happened with this book. The short version is that all the kids of the characters from the Infernal Devices series are now teenagers and fighting their own demons, literal and figurative.
To be honest, there's a lot of issues with this book. The main issue is that Clare seems to think every character needs to be the main character. I'm all for fleshing out side characters, but I cannot possibly keep up with every single one of them. This was such a problem that there was a real lack of plot for most of the first part of the book. And to be honest, it was the end of the book before I could vaguely tell Matthew and Thomas and all of the boys who were not James apart. And I really tried.
I will say that one thing I appreciate about this book is that Clare is at least more willing to write more outwardly diverse characters. Don't get me wrong, there's still a lot of white characters, which is an issue she attempts to solve with one or two token non white characters (out of like 30 other people). Notice I say attempts, this is not diversity.
And I know her willingness to write more openly queer characters is a direct response to criticisms of Alec and Magnus' relationship in the Mortal Instruments series, but sometimes all of this feels like a bandaid. Especially here, in the time period this book takes place in which is arguably a more conservative period of history. It's like she's throwing in all these different people to try to make up for what she didn't do before. I mean damn, there's been like 15 books now, why did this take so long?
By the time I got halfway through the book, all I could think was 'why was this book written?' The story is ok, but it won't affect anything when you already read the story before and the stories after. She's already said who all of these characters marry and their various children play roles in later stories, so there's very little intrigue when you know who someone ends up with.
As usual, I'm probably overthinking things, especially for a series I don't consider to be very dear to me. Will I keep reading? I might, at this point I feel like fan fiction might be more entertaining, at least then I can skip the characters that don't interest me.
To be honest, there's a lot of issues with this book. The main issue is that Clare seems to think every character needs to be the main character. I'm all for fleshing out side characters, but I cannot possibly keep up with every single one of them. This was such a problem that there was a real lack of plot for most of the first part of the book. And to be honest, it was the end of the book before I could vaguely tell Matthew and Thomas and all of the boys who were not James apart. And I really tried.
I will say that one thing I appreciate about this book is that Clare is at least more willing to write more outwardly diverse characters. Don't get me wrong, there's still a lot of white characters, which is an issue she attempts to solve with one or two token non white characters (out of like 30 other people). Notice I say attempts, this is not diversity.
And I know her willingness to write more openly queer characters is a direct response to criticisms of Alec and Magnus' relationship in the Mortal Instruments series, but sometimes all of this feels like a bandaid. Especially here, in the time period this book takes place in which is arguably a more conservative period of history. It's like she's throwing in all these different people to try to make up for what she didn't do before. I mean damn, there's been like 15 books now, why did this take so long?
By the time I got halfway through the book, all I could think was 'why was this book written?' The story is ok, but it won't affect anything when you already read the story before and the stories after. She's already said who all of these characters marry and their various children play roles in later stories, so there's very little intrigue when you know who someone ends up with.
As usual, I'm probably overthinking things, especially for a series I don't consider to be very dear to me. Will I keep reading? I might, at this point I feel like fan fiction might be more entertaining, at least then I can skip the characters that don't interest me.
maida's review
5.0
”Do not let those who cannot see the truth tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the star that cannot be lost. You are who you have always been, and that is enough and more than enough. Anyone who looks at you and sees darkness is blind”.
Before starting this review I’d like to make it very clear that this is mostly going to be me gushing about (maybe) my new favorite book in my favorite series. It won’t have much structure and it won’t make a lot of sense so please don’t take me too seriously, I’m just really excited.
This was probably the most anticipated release of my lifetime. I know it sounds stupid, but hear me out here.
Me and this book take it way back. It was 2013, I was a very fragile 13 year old girl who had just finished Clockwork Princess and was (quite understandably) sobbing her eyes out. Then, I noticed the family tree at the back of the book.
You see, when I got to Clockwork Princess, the first three novellas of The Bane Chronicles were already out. And I knew the third one was about James Herondale, who also happened to be included in this family tree.
So of course I was interested, and after devouring The Midnight Heir (which to this day is one of my favorite novellas) I went to Cassie’s tumblr to see if there was any more content coming out about these characters. And there was… I mean, not quite, but at least we had the initials for the trilogy that was going to be about them: TLH. There were no release dates, no synopsis, no book titles, nothing. But I got very excited. That’s a bit of an understatement, but you get it.
Since that day I’ve been highly anticipating this first book. I‘ve read every little snippet that Cassie has posted/published about these characters, which made me even more excited to finally see them on a full length novel; I have scrutinized every single fact about them to see if there were hints in them —you know, the usual. But this book took forever to come out. f o r e v e r.
At first, it was supposed to come after Lady Midnight and intertwine with TDA like TMI and TID did… and then it didn’t, which was fine, because of course it was going to come out after Lord of Shadows, right? Wrong.
In a newsletter Cassie announced that she’d found herself caring more about QoAaD than CoG2 which, again, was fine, because that was the end of a trilogy so obviously it’s more fun to write, and it didn’t matter because we only had to wait a little bit longer, 2019 was our year… but because this book is actually cursed it got pushed back again because of reasons outside of Cassie’s control.
But again, I had been waiting for six years so a couple of months weren’t that bad. Until the ARCs started popping up all over social media.
For someone who really doesn’t care about having an actual career reviewing books on the internet, I really thought about becoming an overnight sensation just to get this fucking book in my hands. It made me so jealous to see other reviewers who had just gotten into the shadowhunter chronicles get it whilst I’d been waiting for literal years for Chain of Gold to come out.
But who cares to be honest. It was almost release day and since I had ordered it through another country’s Amazon it was coming earlier and I was so excited to finally read it and… I realized I had to go back to school the same week this book was coming out. Which meant I couldn’t read it on release day as I’ve done with almost every single book in this series. Cursed, I’m telling you.
And now, two weeks, two! weeks! after release day I cannot believe I finally live in a world where not only Chain of Gold exists, but I’ve had the pleasure of reading it. Which obviously means, if you haven’t noticed already, that I fucking loved it.
With everything I’ve already said, I think it’s pretty clear to see how this particular installment in The Shadowhunter Chronicles stands out from the rest. And that’s because we’ve known these characters for years. Yes, we hadn’t met Cordelia, our “main” character (and I say that very lightly), yet even she’s been mentioned countless times through the years. Therefore, we already love these characters before the book even starts, which makes everything hit just a little bit harder. It feels as if I’m seeing my children all grown-up go out into the world.
Though this is supposed to be the story of Cordelia arriving to London, this is very much a Star Wars situation. You know how in Star Wars everything seems to be about the Skywalkers? Well, everything in TSC seems to be about the Herondales.
The other two main perspectives (besides Cordelia’s) are James’ and Lucie’s. Through James we get to see The Merry Thieves which are everything I love in male friendship groups; everyone is so supportive of one other and they all love each other so much, while at the same time being absolute idiots most of the time which is amazing. We also got to see a lot of Grace Blackthorn, who I really hate but we’ll get into that later.
Lucie’s perspective was mostly about her discovering her power of commanding ghosts (so cool!) and the mystery of Jesse Blackthorn. Her sections were probably my favorite because of how much I love Jesse Blackthorn. Anyway.
And then Cordelia’s perspective was all about plot. Most of the discoveries, fight scenes and just overall important-for-the-plot scenes were through her and to be honest I’m not bothered by that. What did bother me though was how at the end of every scene she was whisked away and couldn’t discuss anything with the other characters.
I guess the one thing I’d like to mention before going into characters is how glad I am that for once there wasn’t any token lgbt characters. I was really worried about Anna becoming the odd one out but everything was so well handled. Loved it.
Now let’s get into specifics about the characters:
• James Herondale, as every Herondale that’s come before and after him, breaks my heart every! single! time! It’s really sad to see Grace toying with him for her mother’s sake, because he’s honestly the purest Herondale we’ve met to date. I love the fact that his job in his friend group is being the one that keeps them all together… because that’s a very James thing to do. I just want him to get out of Grace’s grasp once and for all because he’s bound to get hurt. And I really don’t want that for my child.
• Matthew Fairchild is everything I expected him to be after what happened in Cast Long Shadows which is really fucking sad. I guess what’s even worse is that we get to see how close he is to James, his parabatai, and yet he still can’t tell him everything that torments him. I just want someone to take alcohol away from him because he’s slowly killing himself. Matthew very evidently fell in love with Cordelia in this book, which makes him a part of yet another love triangle in TSC (oh my god); they had such an interesting dynamic and yet I’m somehow heartbroken already. Still, I love my bisexual king very much. He’s also so fucking funny.
• Thomas Lightwood was a surprise to me, actually. To be honest I’ve never have cared that much about him, but boy did he shine in this one. He’s just so… sweet. And I’m all in for him and Alastair to be honest… this is gonna be a great enemies to friends to enemies to lovers situation and I’m loving it already.
• Christopher Lightwood is very much the Henry Branwell of TLH. Kind of comic-reliefy, but also so charming and smart and just overall kind. He’s great. We love him.
• Lucie Herondale is so annoyingly charming, she’s the greatest. I love the fact that she has this passion for writing that not a lot of people get, and yet she’s still persistent. She’s very stubborn and determined, which honestly makes a lot of sense considering who her parents are. I think it’s adorable how she tries to push The Beautiful Cordelia onto everyone, and how she’s convinced that stories are only supposed to be about the good things in life. Her relationship with Jesse Blackthorn is definitely one of the highlights of this book, as well as her new found powers, that also happen to be the most hardcore powers in all of existence. Period. I just wish she and Cordelia were gay but sigh.
• Cordelia Carstairs is the only “new” character of the bunch and she didn’t disappoint. She arrives to London set on the idea of saving her father from an “unjust” trial and she leaves this book being a hero. My favorite Cordelia scenes are the ones where she interacts with Anna; I truly loved their conversation about not wanting to be the muse, but the hero. I love her relationship with Lucie, I love how she acts around Matthew… but I’m not so thrilled about her and James. Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea of them together and honestly cannot wait to see how their marriage works out but with Grace still having her literal spell on Jamie one is bound to get hurt. And I love them both too dearly for that to happen.
• I’ve waited very patiently for more Anna Lightwood content and again, Chain of Gold didn’t disappoint. It’s really fun seeing her break every single girl’s heart, because it’s what she deserves. She has such a great dynamic with all of the characters and I love how protective she’s over them. I just hope she doesn’t get back together with Ariadne though.
• Grace Blackthorn. Yup. We’re doing this. Okay, don’t get me wrong, almost all of Grace’s doings are the work of Tatiana Blackthorn who’s undeniably the villain of this trilogy, but I have disliked this girl ever since The Midnight Heir. We know Tatiana has done something to Grace to make her somewhat “irresistible” to men and that the bracelet she gave Jamie was supposed to let Belial posses him… yeah. It angers me that she gets to play with James’ emotions and not only that, but the fact that she gets away with it. I’m just… yeah, no.
• On the other hand, I’ve been waiting a really long time for Jesse Blackthorn to make an appearance. We know from the family tree (which is now supposed to be fake) that he marries Lucie… but we also know that he’s dead so what the fuck??? I really like him, he’s just so interesting to me. And the fact that he sacrificed himself for James? Yup. That’s it. King.
• Alastair Carstairs is such a weird character to me because both me and the characters truly hated him after the events of TFTSA, and yet here we’re shown some different facets of Alastair which is… strange. Again, I’m really looking forward to his and Thomas relationship.
Before closing this long-ass review up, let me tell you some other things that I liked because I honestly cannot shut up about this book:
• Gays in the 1900?? Sign me the fuck up
• Honestly every TID cameo made me cry
• This is basically the same thing but Will and Tessa being parents? Will and Tessa being so in love?? Will and Tessa???? Oh my god???
• The short Magnus cameo and how much he loves the TID cast I’m sorry I’m still crying
• There was so much herongraystairs in this one I cannot believe this I’m so glad
• Tessa Herondale sent me to another dimension
• The flashback chapters were so good
• Also I’m so glad we finally know who Tessa’s father is… I don’t know why I needed this information but I’m so glad I have it I love my woman
• The cliffhanger is too much… way too much. I’m still crying about it.
• I’m sorry the one throw away scene where Tessa and Will are on their bedroom??? How am I supposed to get over that?????
I think this is my favorite shadowhunter book to date. Maybe close second to Clockwork Princess… it’s just that good in my eyes. Maybe it was the long wait, I don’t know. I’m so excited for the future of this trilogy. I love everything about it.
15. A book set in a global city
pre-review:
I’m so jealous of people who are getting arcs of this book because I’ve been highly anticipating it since 20
-freaking-13. It’s fine. I’m fine.
Before starting this review I’d like to make it very clear that this is mostly going to be me gushing about (maybe) my new favorite book in my favorite series. It won’t have much structure and it won’t make a lot of sense so please don’t take me too seriously, I’m just really excited.
This was probably the most anticipated release of my lifetime. I know it sounds stupid, but hear me out here.
Me and this book take it way back. It was 2013, I was a very fragile 13 year old girl who had just finished Clockwork Princess and was (quite understandably) sobbing her eyes out. Then, I noticed the family tree at the back of the book.
You see, when I got to Clockwork Princess, the first three novellas of The Bane Chronicles were already out. And I knew the third one was about James Herondale, who also happened to be included in this family tree.
So of course I was interested, and after devouring The Midnight Heir (which to this day is one of my favorite novellas) I went to Cassie’s tumblr to see if there was any more content coming out about these characters. And there was… I mean, not quite, but at least we had the initials for the trilogy that was going to be about them: TLH. There were no release dates, no synopsis, no book titles, nothing. But I got very excited. That’s a bit of an understatement, but you get it.
Since that day I’ve been highly anticipating this first book. I‘ve read every little snippet that Cassie has posted/published about these characters, which made me even more excited to finally see them on a full length novel; I have scrutinized every single fact about them to see if there were hints in them —you know, the usual. But this book took forever to come out. f o r e v e r.
At first, it was supposed to come after Lady Midnight and intertwine with TDA like TMI and TID did… and then it didn’t, which was fine, because of course it was going to come out after Lord of Shadows, right? Wrong.
In a newsletter Cassie announced that she’d found herself caring more about QoAaD than CoG2 which, again, was fine, because that was the end of a trilogy so obviously it’s more fun to write, and it didn’t matter because we only had to wait a little bit longer, 2019 was our year… but because this book is actually cursed it got pushed back again because of reasons outside of Cassie’s control.
But again, I had been waiting for six years so a couple of months weren’t that bad. Until the ARCs started popping up all over social media.
For someone who really doesn’t care about having an actual career reviewing books on the internet, I really thought about becoming an overnight sensation just to get this fucking book in my hands. It made me so jealous to see other reviewers who had just gotten into the shadowhunter chronicles get it whilst I’d been waiting for literal years for Chain of Gold to come out.
But who cares to be honest. It was almost release day and since I had ordered it through another country’s Amazon it was coming earlier and I was so excited to finally read it and… I realized I had to go back to school the same week this book was coming out. Which meant I couldn’t read it on release day as I’ve done with almost every single book in this series. Cursed, I’m telling you.
And now, two weeks, two! weeks! after release day I cannot believe I finally live in a world where not only Chain of Gold exists, but I’ve had the pleasure of reading it. Which obviously means, if you haven’t noticed already, that I fucking loved it.
With everything I’ve already said, I think it’s pretty clear to see how this particular installment in The Shadowhunter Chronicles stands out from the rest. And that’s because we’ve known these characters for years. Yes, we hadn’t met Cordelia, our “main” character (and I say that very lightly), yet even she’s been mentioned countless times through the years. Therefore, we already love these characters before the book even starts, which makes everything hit just a little bit harder. It feels as if I’m seeing my children all grown-up go out into the world.
Though this is supposed to be the story of Cordelia arriving to London, this is very much a Star Wars situation. You know how in Star Wars everything seems to be about the Skywalkers? Well, everything in TSC seems to be about the Herondales.
The other two main perspectives (besides Cordelia’s) are James’ and Lucie’s. Through James we get to see The Merry Thieves which are everything I love in male friendship groups; everyone is so supportive of one other and they all love each other so much, while at the same time being absolute idiots most of the time which is amazing. We also got to see a lot of Grace Blackthorn, who I really hate but we’ll get into that later.
Lucie’s perspective was mostly about her discovering her power of commanding ghosts (so cool!) and the mystery of Jesse Blackthorn. Her sections were probably my favorite because of how much I love Jesse Blackthorn. Anyway.
And then Cordelia’s perspective was all about plot. Most of the discoveries, fight scenes and just overall important-for-the-plot scenes were through her and to be honest I’m not bothered by that. What did bother me though was how at the end of every scene she was whisked away and couldn’t discuss anything with the other characters.
I guess the one thing I’d like to mention before going into characters is how glad I am that for once there wasn’t any token lgbt characters. I was really worried about Anna becoming the odd one out but everything was so well handled. Loved it.
Now let’s get into specifics about the characters:
• James Herondale, as every Herondale that’s come before and after him, breaks my heart every! single! time! It’s really sad to see Grace toying with him for her mother’s sake, because he’s honestly the purest Herondale we’ve met to date. I love the fact that his job in his friend group is being the one that keeps them all together… because that’s a very James thing to do. I just want him to get out of Grace’s grasp once and for all because he’s bound to get hurt. And I really don’t want that for my child.
• Matthew Fairchild is everything I expected him to be after what happened in Cast Long Shadows which is really fucking sad. I guess what’s even worse is that we get to see how close he is to James, his parabatai, and yet he still can’t tell him everything that torments him. I just want someone to take alcohol away from him because he’s slowly killing himself. Matthew very evidently fell in love with Cordelia in this book, which makes him a part of yet another love triangle in TSC (oh my god); they had such an interesting dynamic and yet I’m somehow heartbroken already. Still, I love my bisexual king very much. He’s also so fucking funny.
• Thomas Lightwood was a surprise to me, actually. To be honest I’ve never have cared that much about him, but boy did he shine in this one. He’s just so… sweet. And I’m all in for him and Alastair to be honest… this is gonna be a great enemies to friends to enemies to lovers situation and I’m loving it already.
• Christopher Lightwood is very much the Henry Branwell of TLH. Kind of comic-reliefy, but also so charming and smart and just overall kind. He’s great. We love him.
• Lucie Herondale is so annoyingly charming, she’s the greatest. I love the fact that she has this passion for writing that not a lot of people get, and yet she’s still persistent. She’s very stubborn and determined, which honestly makes a lot of sense considering who her parents are. I think it’s adorable how she tries to push The Beautiful Cordelia onto everyone, and how she’s convinced that stories are only supposed to be about the good things in life. Her relationship with Jesse Blackthorn is definitely one of the highlights of this book, as well as her new found powers, that also happen to be the most hardcore powers in all of existence. Period. I just wish she and Cordelia were gay but sigh.
• Cordelia Carstairs is the only “new” character of the bunch and she didn’t disappoint. She arrives to London set on the idea of saving her father from an “unjust” trial and she leaves this book being a hero. My favorite Cordelia scenes are the ones where she interacts with Anna; I truly loved their conversation about not wanting to be the muse, but the hero. I love her relationship with Lucie, I love how she acts around Matthew… but I’m not so thrilled about her and James. Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea of them together and honestly cannot wait to see how their marriage works out but with Grace still having her literal spell on Jamie one is bound to get hurt. And I love them both too dearly for that to happen.
• I’ve waited very patiently for more Anna Lightwood content and again, Chain of Gold didn’t disappoint. It’s really fun seeing her break every single girl’s heart, because it’s what she deserves. She has such a great dynamic with all of the characters and I love how protective she’s over them. I just hope she doesn’t get back together with Ariadne though.
• Grace Blackthorn. Yup. We’re doing this. Okay, don’t get me wrong, almost all of Grace’s doings are the work of Tatiana Blackthorn who’s undeniably the villain of this trilogy, but I have disliked this girl ever since The Midnight Heir. We know Tatiana has done something to Grace to make her somewhat “irresistible” to men and that the bracelet she gave Jamie was supposed to let Belial posses him… yeah. It angers me that she gets to play with James’ emotions and not only that, but the fact that she gets away with it. I’m just… yeah, no.
• On the other hand, I’ve been waiting a really long time for Jesse Blackthorn to make an appearance. We know from the family tree (which is now supposed to be fake) that he marries Lucie… but we also know that he’s dead so what the fuck??? I really like him, he’s just so interesting to me. And the fact that he sacrificed himself for James? Yup. That’s it. King.
• Alastair Carstairs is such a weird character to me because both me and the characters truly hated him after the events of TFTSA, and yet here we’re shown some different facets of Alastair which is… strange. Again, I’m really looking forward to his and Thomas relationship.
Before closing this long-ass review up, let me tell you some other things that I liked because I honestly cannot shut up about this book:
• Gays in the 1900?? Sign me the fuck up
• Honestly every TID cameo made me cry
• This is basically the same thing but Will and Tessa being parents? Will and Tessa being so in love?? Will and Tessa???? Oh my god???
• The short Magnus cameo and how much he loves the TID cast I’m sorry I’m still crying
• There was so much herongraystairs in this one I cannot believe this I’m so glad
• Tessa Herondale sent me to another dimension
• The flashback chapters were so good
• Also I’m so glad we finally know who Tessa’s father is… I don’t know why I needed this information but I’m so glad I have it I love my woman
• The cliffhanger is too much… way too much. I’m still crying about it.
• I’m sorry the one throw away scene where Tessa and Will are on their bedroom??? How am I supposed to get over that?????
I think this is my favorite shadowhunter book to date. Maybe close second to Clockwork Princess… it’s just that good in my eyes. Maybe it was the long wait, I don’t know. I’m so excited for the future of this trilogy. I love everything about it.
15. A book set in a global city
pre-review:
I’m so jealous of people who are getting arcs of this book because I’ve been highly anticipating it since 20
-freaking-13. It’s fine. I’m fine.
apowers18's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
- 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
3.0
ardoreira's review against another edition
5.0
« she did not love james because he was beautiful; he was beautiful to her because she loved him.»
sans surprise chain of gold reste un gros 5 étoiles après cette relecture. ce tome a littéralement ma romance trope préférée : childhood friends to somewhat flirting to fake marriage to je ne sais pas encore parce que le tome 3 n’est pas encore sorti. mais malgré ça on s’en fou de la romance parce que la meilleure chose de ce livre c’est vraiment toutes les autres platonic relationships ! cassandra clare est juste trop forte pour écrire les dynamiques entre les personnages c’est incroyable. en plus je suis vraiment une character driven kind of person quand je lis et avec chain of gold je suis gâtée (deja depuis the infernal devices j’ai été très bien nourrie).
d’ailleurs je pensais vraiment pouvoir trouver un personnage préférée vu que c’était une relecture et au final je suis encore plus perdue qu’avant parce que c’est impossible de ne pas aimer tout le monde!!!! (sauf grace et charles bien sur mais honnêtement qui les aime ?). je ne le dirais jamais assez mais j’adore les merry thieves j’aime trop leur dynamic et leur relation les uns envers les autres en général.
je pouvais juste pas m’empêcher de sourire tout au long du livre, c’était trop bien de redécouvrir l’histoire en plus j’avais oublié pleins de détails donc ça rafraichis bien la mémoire avant la sortie du dernier tome
P.S : will herondale merci d’exister je ne le répéterais jamais assez. il est vraiment incroyable dans ce tome il est parfait il est trop drôle j’ai rien de négatif à dire sur lui et meme si il y avait du négatif je le verrais carrément pas psk je suis absolument BIASED. A story hits different when you’re reading the children of characters you have previously loved. je pense que le fait que l’histoire soit sur ses enfants joue beaucoup sur le fait que je ne peux pas m’empêcher de les aimer. petit clin d’oeil au fait que j’ai la collector’s first edition du livre et donc la short story sur le mariage de will et tessa j’étais vraiment trop heureuse de relire ce passage !
morale de l’histoire, il faut subir la lecture tous les the mortal instruments (6 tomes c’est l o n g) pour pouvoir lire les trilogies the infernal devices et the last hours mais ca vaut carrément le coup.
sans surprise chain of gold reste un gros 5 étoiles après cette relecture. ce tome a littéralement ma romance trope préférée : childhood friends to somewhat flirting to fake marriage to je ne sais pas encore parce que le tome 3 n’est pas encore sorti. mais malgré ça on s’en fou de la romance parce que la meilleure chose de ce livre c’est vraiment toutes les autres platonic relationships ! cassandra clare est juste trop forte pour écrire les dynamiques entre les personnages c’est incroyable. en plus je suis vraiment une character driven kind of person quand je lis et avec chain of gold je suis gâtée (deja depuis the infernal devices j’ai été très bien nourrie).
d’ailleurs je pensais vraiment pouvoir trouver un personnage préférée vu que c’était une relecture et au final je suis encore plus perdue qu’avant parce que c’est impossible de ne pas aimer tout le monde!!!! (sauf grace et charles bien sur mais honnêtement qui les aime ?). je ne le dirais jamais assez mais j’adore les merry thieves j’aime trop leur dynamic et leur relation les uns envers les autres en général.
je pouvais juste pas m’empêcher de sourire tout au long du livre, c’était trop bien de redécouvrir l’histoire en plus j’avais oublié pleins de détails donc ça rafraichis bien la mémoire avant la sortie du dernier tome
P.S : will herondale merci d’exister je ne le répéterais jamais assez. il est vraiment incroyable dans ce tome il est parfait il est trop drôle j’ai rien de négatif à dire sur lui et meme si il y avait du négatif je le verrais carrément pas psk je suis absolument BIASED. A story hits different when you’re reading the children of characters you have previously loved. je pense que le fait que l’histoire soit sur ses enfants joue beaucoup sur le fait que je ne peux pas m’empêcher de les aimer. petit clin d’oeil au fait que j’ai la collector’s first edition du livre et donc la short story sur le mariage de will et tessa j’étais vraiment trop heureuse de relire ce passage !
morale de l’histoire, il faut subir la lecture tous les the mortal instruments (6 tomes c’est l o n g) pour pouvoir lire les trilogies the infernal devices et the last hours mais ca vaut carrément le coup.
ashwas1228's review
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5