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The Ragpicker King

Cassandra Clare

4.39 AVERAGE


OH WOWWWWW 
adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-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 challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Loveable characters: Yes

LOVE cassandra clare, the way she writes love and heartbreak is so so beautiful. praying she doesn’t kill me with the next book. characters and world so well written and lovable. some plot twists are expected, others are not at all.
mysterious medium-paced
adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Settings/Atmosphere: 5/5
Plot/Pacing: 5/5
Characters: 4.5/5
Writing: 5/5
Connection: 4.5/5 

Big improvement on the last book. Immediately more engaging, more interesting romance points, and more fun reveals. I'm so excited for the Prosper Beck and Ragpicker team up I've been hoping for that and I'm glad Connor seems to be scheming. There was even a reveal that I did not see coming, although it was a bit obvious looking back, so I was pleased. That arrest had me stressed and I must say I hate Joss with a burning passion now and I'm so annoyed with the Maharam. But that's also so realistic. People want their goddess of fire until they have her and it's scary. 
challenging informative mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous emotional lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Totally cliché-ridden star-crossed lovers “we can’t be together because reasons. We will lie to & keep secrets from each other for contrived & pointless reasons leading to misunderstandings that cause death & destruction to everyone & everything in the world that could have been avoided incredibly easily (& still could with a 30 second explanation). Then we will claim the betrayals are so fundamental that forgiveness is impossible in order to hurt the other so badly they'll never come near again meaning we’ll have made the tragic, painful decision that saves them from being targeted by the baddies”. Every character did that to one or more other character like a 90s romcom analysed a la Pepe Silvia.

Plus nothing happened apart from the above pointless yearning & smouldering (and a bit of pointless, unrealistically setup sex) until the book was almost finished.

Yawn
mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Is the world-building good? Not really. And all of the adults behave like teenagers. 

Still, somehow, all of the mixed-up relationships are very entertaining, like a reality TV show. All fun for not thoughts head empty time. 
adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense 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: Complicated

  • I fucking love this series with my whole chest. There is so much in the balance I will be salivating over the next book. What does Conor actually believe? Will they all be able to forgive each other? Is daddy turning into a bird or what? Where TF is Lin going? I NEED MOREEEEE 

adventurous emotional mysterious sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A