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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
OKAY I might be well past the age recommendations but I have a young soul. Also, I have the right to criticize because this book not right.
Even though I’ve known it’s heavily copying HP (aka my favorite series of all time) ever since I read The Iron Trial. That’s why I also grew to like it and compelled me to read the second, and then the third books. It had this magical effects to me, just the way I like it.
I would say that The Copper Gauntlet was the best out of the series. Truly as much I hated to say it, the series was on its peak by the second book, then it just went really downhill. I liked Copper Gauntlet but then it was a little disappointing by the third book but then The Silver Mask happened and evaporated any kind of love I ever felt toward the series. That being said, I don’t like where this series is going.
I might have said at some point that I strongly believed Call would be the big bad and it would just be another big-bad-as-main-character scenario just like The Young Elites. And I would much prefer it that way really.
So that’s exactly what happened.
Everything about The Golden Tower seem way too rushed. Everything happened so fast. It might be better in like say, two books. The authors seem to compress all the events happening in a one short book. I’m pretty sure its even shorter than The Bronze Key which got me scratching my head as this is the finale. We have the extremely slow The Silver Mask and them its as if the authors are trying to redeem themselves by writing this book by making everything so fast. I shit you not even I, who normally likes fast pacing got confused somewhere. The book have taken us to unexpected places and it all seems so wrong and meh that the authors themselves think they should just get it over with.
Second, I feel it troubling that everything happens too easy. Call and his ragtag gang literally convinced THREE ELEMENTALS TO JOIN THEIR CAUSE WITH LIKE WHAT 5 MINUTES OF CONVINCING? And dude one of them literally joined their cause for no good reason other than she LIKES FROGS. What the hell? This is not supposed to happen. We’re talking about Cassandra Clare and Holly Black here. I was a little cautious to say at least when everything happened too easy but then it all works out! Surely a cheap way for our characters to save the world.
And then we go over to the supposedly the deadliest war since the Mage War. I got my hopes up AND THEN.
ITS SO SO SHORT LIKE NOTHING ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
As well as being anticlimatic, no actual war is being told. I don’t even feel like there’s a war going on in the background. Defeating Alex is just way way way too easy. One moment he’s here, the next he’s not (well not really not here)
And I want to keep this PG13 but sorry, wtf was that cheap ending? Wtf is all that stuff? okay we did a mistake, we’re sorry we’re not gonna repeat it again as long as we stay good okay? YOURE BASICALLY TELLING ME THAT IT ALL ENDS WITH YOU GUYS SORRY FOR WHAT YOU DID AND YOU WON’T DO IT AGAIN? FOR NO REMORSE? CALL YOU JUST KILLED SOMEBODY WTF. Also how the heck are you gonna keep it from everyone about He can’t just live like that.
Also this whole shit about Alex completely swept Constantine Madden aside and really? I mean he’s supposed to be the VOLDEMORT of the series. Where is he now? And what are we gonna do about that whole matter with his soul inside Call? What are we gonna do with Maugris?
I could go on and on about why I despise this book and how the author turned this book into. If anything, it makes a way if they want to write more books. You can’t finish a series like that. If anything, it brings more conflict and the book also felt unfinished. Like we’re supposed to be expecting a sixth book.
But even though I feel conflicted, I enjoy reading it more so than The Silver Mask so I guess that’s good. And Call has grown so much as a character now I love him! Its the best thing from the series as it happened slowly and progressively throughout the books. We see the Call who wants to just live from The Iron Trial and the guy he is now, I actually feel some sort of pride for him.
Even though I’ve known it’s heavily copying HP (aka my favorite series of all time) ever since I read The Iron Trial. That’s why I also grew to like it and compelled me to read the second, and then the third books. It had this magical effects to me, just the way I like it.
I would say that The Copper Gauntlet was the best out of the series. Truly as much I hated to say it, the series was on its peak by the second book, then it just went really downhill. I liked Copper Gauntlet but then it was a little disappointing by the third book but then The Silver Mask happened and evaporated any kind of love I ever felt toward the series. That being said, I don’t like where this series is going.
I might have said at some point that I strongly believed Call would be the big bad and it would just be another big-bad-as-main-character scenario just like The Young Elites. And I would much prefer it that way really.
Me: “silver mask is too slow. nothing happened”
Black and Clare: “ah right. we’re going to make them soooo fast! that’s a good idea!”
So that’s exactly what happened.
Everything about The Golden Tower seem way too rushed. Everything happened so fast. It might be better in like say, two books. The authors seem to compress all the events happening in a one short book. I’m pretty sure its even shorter than The Bronze Key which got me scratching my head as this is the finale. We have the extremely slow The Silver Mask and them its as if the authors are trying to redeem themselves by writing this book by making everything so fast. I shit you not even I, who normally likes fast pacing got confused somewhere. The book have taken us to unexpected places and it all seems so wrong and meh that the authors themselves think they should just get it over with.
Second, I feel it troubling that everything happens too easy. Call and his ragtag gang literally convinced THREE ELEMENTALS TO JOIN THEIR CAUSE WITH LIKE WHAT 5 MINUTES OF CONVINCING? And dude one of them literally joined their cause for no good reason other than she LIKES FROGS. What the hell? This is not supposed to happen. We’re talking about Cassandra Clare and Holly Black here. I was a little cautious to say at least when everything happened too easy but then it all works out! Surely a cheap way for our characters to save the world.
And then we go over to the supposedly the deadliest war since the Mage War. I got my hopes up AND THEN.
ITS SO SO SHORT LIKE NOTHING ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
As well as being anticlimatic, no actual war is being told. I don’t even feel like there’s a war going on in the background. Defeating Alex is just way way way too easy. One moment he’s here, the next he’s not (well not really not here)
And I want to keep this PG13 but sorry, wtf was that cheap ending? Wtf is all that stuff? okay we did a mistake, we’re sorry we’re not gonna repeat it again as long as we stay good okay? YOURE BASICALLY TELLING ME THAT IT ALL ENDS WITH YOU GUYS SORRY FOR WHAT YOU DID AND YOU WON’T DO IT AGAIN? FOR NO REMORSE? CALL YOU JUST KILLED SOMEBODY WTF. Also how the heck are you gonna keep it from everyone about
Spoiler
Aaron in Alex’s body?Also this whole shit about Alex completely swept Constantine Madden aside and really? I mean he’s supposed to be the VOLDEMORT of the series. Where is he now? And what are we gonna do about that whole matter with his soul inside Call? What are we gonna do with Maugris?
I could go on and on about why I despise this book and how the author turned this book into. If anything, it makes a way if they want to write more books. You can’t finish a series like that. If anything, it brings more conflict and the book also felt unfinished. Like we’re supposed to be expecting a sixth book.
But even though I feel conflicted, I enjoy reading it more so than The Silver Mask so I guess that’s good. And Call has grown so much as a character now I love him! Its the best thing from the series as it happened slowly and progressively throughout the books. We see the Call who wants to just live from The Iron Trial and the guy he is now, I actually feel some sort of pride for him.
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
ooooooooooooooooook. So.
Spoiler
These kids literally only spent 2.5 years out of their 5 years actually in school. The entire series is utterly too short. The romance (if it can be called that) is forced. The magic was cool but they really didn't explore it well enough. The Harry Potter parallels are far too obvious to overlook. And all of the characters - kids and adults in charge (and calling them adults is incredibly loose because they were just as immature as the kids) - never asked the right questions.
I expected nothing and I was still let down.
I absolutely love magisterium, it's one of those series where I'm fond of every single character so you can only imagine how sad and angry I am right now.
Weak plot and silly villain besides, I am so disappointed with how dirty they did the main characters!
I mean, sure everything has been going downhill ever since Aaron died. But TGT took this to another level! Callum is more insecure than ever and he spend most of his time think about Tamara. Aaron has to remember him that they have bigger problems (you know, like saving the world and finding his best friend a body, easy stuff) quite a few times. And considering how obsessed with bringing Aaron back Call was just a book before, it's really weird he has to be reminded of it.
Tamara was officially reduced to love interest only, we all knew it was coming, especially since TSM but this book more than ever. There was little, if anything, left of the girl I met in the first book.
Call and Tamara have no chemistry whatsoever specially considering how Call seems to fall temporarily in love with any girl that show any interest in him. (Remember that Celia phase? Unfortunately I do.) Because he has such a low self-esteem and he's willing to hold to any kind of affection he can get. And Tamara always seemed to be more into Aaron (and even Jasper) than into Call, until Aaron died, then suddenly she liked Callum. Their romance was poorly written and by the way they built the trio dynamic during the whole series I feel like the true romance was supposed to be between Callum and Aaron and maybe (and that's a big maybe) some sort of love triangle between them. Maybe they were afraid of the backlash or maybe their editor didn't allow them to write a main mlm couple in a middle grade book, whatever the reason, I hate it.
And Aaron, well Aaron was a voice in Callum's head during 95% of the book and I'm so sad. He was one of the best characters and then nothing. His friendship with Call was so beautiful but in TGT it's all so weird. There were two moments I thought Aaron was going to confess his feelings to Call and then at least something would be right but then of course he didn't. Even though Aaron was there during the whole book, he was like a ghost. Not because only Call could hear him but because he was a pale, almost out of character version of himself.
I could complain about the plot, about how weak Alex was as a villain but I won't, because if I'm being honest, I don't care about any of it. It was not the plot, the villain or the worldbuilding that made me want to read this book so bad. It was the characters. It was Callum, and Aaron and Tamara, Jasper and Havoc. Because I love them and I wanted to have a proper goodbye. I'm not satisfied by that ending, it was rushed and it didn't made me happy but at least I got to say goodbye.
Maybe one day I'll get over it. I'll accept this ending and move on. But as for today I'm just gonna be mad.
I absolutely love magisterium, it's one of those series where I'm fond of every single character so you can only imagine how sad and angry I am right now.
Weak plot and silly villain besides, I am so disappointed with how dirty they did the main characters!
I mean, sure everything has been going downhill ever since Aaron died. But TGT took this to another level! Callum is more insecure than ever and he spend most of his time think about Tamara. Aaron has to remember him that they have bigger problems (you know, like saving the world and finding his best friend a body, easy stuff) quite a few times. And considering how obsessed with bringing Aaron back Call was just a book before, it's really weird he has to be reminded of it.
Tamara was officially reduced to love interest only, we all knew it was coming, especially since TSM but this book more than ever. There was little, if anything, left of the girl I met in the first book.
Call and Tamara have no chemistry whatsoever specially considering how Call seems to fall temporarily in love with any girl that show any interest in him. (Remember that Celia phase? Unfortunately I do.) Because he has such a low self-esteem and he's willing to hold to any kind of affection he can get. And Tamara always seemed to be more into Aaron (and even Jasper) than into Call, until Aaron died, then suddenly she liked Callum. Their romance was poorly written and by the way they built the trio dynamic during the whole series I feel like the true romance was supposed to be between Callum and Aaron and maybe (and that's a big maybe) some sort of love triangle between them. Maybe they were afraid of the backlash or maybe their editor didn't allow them to write a main mlm couple in a middle grade book, whatever the reason, I hate it.
And Aaron, well Aaron was a voice in Callum's head during 95% of the book and I'm so sad. He was one of the best characters and then nothing. His friendship with Call was so beautiful but in TGT it's all so weird. There were two moments I thought Aaron was going to confess his feelings to Call and then at least something would be right but then of course he didn't. Even though Aaron was there during the whole book, he was like a ghost. Not because only Call could hear him but because he was a pale, almost out of character version of himself.
I could complain about the plot, about how weak Alex was as a villain but I won't, because if I'm being honest, I don't care about any of it. It was not the plot, the villain or the worldbuilding that made me want to read this book so bad. It was the characters. It was Callum, and Aaron and Tamara, Jasper and Havoc. Because I love them and I wanted to have a proper goodbye. I'm not satisfied by that ending, it was rushed and it didn't made me happy but at least I got to say goodbye.
Maybe one day I'll get over it. I'll accept this ending and move on. But as for today I'm just gonna be mad.
Závěr série o Callovi a jeho přátelích rozhodně zaujal. Co mě trošku zklamalo bylo to, jak se vlastně všechno až moc jednoduše vyřešilo a Call se svými přáteli, hlavně v závěru knihy, neměl až takové překážky. Přišlo mi to až moc jednoduché a bez větších problémů. Současně se také dalo předvídat, jak to zhruba skončí. Některé věci mě dokázaly překvapit, ale zase tolik jich nebylo. Dávám 4* kvůli tomu, že se mi série jako celek líbila a docela jsem se s ní zabavila. Je to taková oddechovka, ale myslím, že se dá řadit mezi ty lepší. K hodnocení knihy jako samotné, tak ta byla trošku slabší v porovnání s minulými díly a rozhodně si myslím, že měla být delší.
This was a solid ending for the series, but in my opinion a little bit short and sometimes rushed. Things were resolved too conveniently
this is the final book of the saga, and I think it was a good ending, probably not a great one, but it didn't disappoint me. And honestly, I'll miss the story and the characters.