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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
I enjoyed this book.
I enjoyed learning more about the shadow hunter world.
There was much I was not sure about some of the things and it was here in this book.
This was a fun book.
I enjoyed learning more about the shadow hunter world.
There was much I was not sure about some of the things and it was here in this book.
This was a fun book.
I didn't know I could add this book to my goodreads.
This was really fun to have and helped get a better understanding of what it means to be a shadowhunter. I really like it when a book becomes so big that you get to have a codex for the series. Really fun to read and I loved all the side notes as well.
This was really fun to have and helped get a better understanding of what it means to be a shadowhunter. I really like it when a book becomes so big that you get to have a codex for the series. Really fun to read and I loved all the side notes as well.
Totally worth it, the in-character notes are hysterical and the artwork is gorgeous.
This is an interesting read if you are a fan of The Mortal Instruments. This is the book that is referenced throughout the series and contains al the information about the Shadowhunter world. I learnt a lot from this book as it goes into a bit more detail than the series.
I would only recommend this book if you are a fan of the series. If you didn't particularly enjoy the series then you will not enjoy this book.
I would only recommend this book if you are a fan of the series. If you didn't particularly enjoy the series then you will not enjoy this book.
The Shadowhunter's Codex was in the vein of Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages, i.e. a book that was mentioned in the author's series and then turned into a "textbook" with comments from the characters. But where Rowling shined with additional commentary on her exciting world, Claire failed.
Sure some of the Clary, Have and Simon commentary was cute and Clary's supposed added drawings were neat to examine but the text itself left a lot to be desired. First, the book was having an identity crisis. Yes it's supposedly the translated English copy, 11th edition or something, but it flipped back and forth between being too formal (annoyingly like a real textbook with long winded, mind numbing facts) and too informal. What a reader knows from the books is that the Clave is pretty formal and rule specific and I can't imagine they'd allow the passive aggressive and sarcastic passages that some of the sections were. (At least with Rowling's books we already knew quite a lot of the older wizards could be goofballs).
After having read the first five Mortal Instruments books and the Infernal Devices I really don't think there was much about the world I cared to know, at least not in the dry textbook like entries that sometimes took up pages and pages.
Sure some of the Clary, Have and Simon commentary was cute and Clary's supposed added drawings were neat to examine but the text itself left a lot to be desired. First, the book was having an identity crisis. Yes it's supposedly the translated English copy, 11th edition or something, but it flipped back and forth between being too formal (annoyingly like a real textbook with long winded, mind numbing facts) and too informal. What a reader knows from the books is that the Clave is pretty formal and rule specific and I can't imagine they'd allow the passive aggressive and sarcastic passages that some of the sections were. (At least with Rowling's books we already knew quite a lot of the older wizards could be goofballs).
After having read the first five Mortal Instruments books and the Infernal Devices I really don't think there was much about the world I cared to know, at least not in the dry textbook like entries that sometimes took up pages and pages.
This is a TON of background info on all sorts of things. Plus the little notes from the characters are fun.
Fantastically funny. I actually was laughing out loud as the marginal comments from the characters. Plus it is a unique insight into the Shadowhunting world.
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slow-paced
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