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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
sigh… kuzguns propaganda worked… i loved the book 😔
I’m giving this a 2.75 instead of a 3 purely out of pettiness. I read this out of curiosity because I wanted to know who these gay little Herondale and Carstairs characters were my friend kept talking about. The premise started off interesting but the further I went on the more I found myself being taken out by some of the dialogue (especially Tessa’s). The characters were fine and enjoyable, but the things Tessa would say would make me laugh at some points. Like girl your brother is being tortured by the voices and is evil man’s goon and you’re worried about whether or not you would have been an ugly baby? LOCK IN GIRL LOCK IN!!!!
Anyways this was an okay read & it scratched the YA series itch I had been craving for a few months. I will learn more about you Mr Jem in time.. in time…
Anyways this was an okay read & it scratched the YA series itch I had been craving for a few months. I will learn more about you Mr Jem in time.. in time…
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-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
tldr: one of my fav guilty pleasure/nostalgia reads. there is just something so timeless and unserious about a story with all the right twists and turns and compelling characters. no one acts or speaks like a real human and sometimes, that's liberating. i was pleasantly surprised by how smoothly this read and how well it aged for a 2010s ya novel. honestly, as long as you don't think any harder than that about it (which, if i had to guess, was never the intention here), the whole thing just such an endearing experience.
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-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
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Qui si riprende il viaggio di Shadowhunters dalle origini, che non possono essere più allettanti ed emozionanti di così. La narrativa è perfetta, i fatti e le risoluzioni di altri fatti si basano su motivi più che logici, il tutto si incastra benissimo e non manca il colpo di scena che ti fa rimanere a bocca aperta, anche perché ti fa urlare. E ancora più motivi per urlare sono i primi approcci tra i protagonisti: da un lato Will, misterioso e caotico, che sembra il bad boy ma in realtà innalza delle difese, e dall’altro il saggio e dolce ma tutt’altro che fragile - nonostante il suo passato - Jem. Tessa è una bella protagonista, sveglia e coraggiosa, ma anche molto immedesimabile, e i personaggi secondari sono quasi tutti (Jessamine UGH, anche se ogni tanto una cosa giusta la fa) adorabili.
Interesting premise & I love the setting as well as the atmosphere. However, it was a little cliché plot-wise at times and I couldn't connect well with the characters. I also don't like the cliffhanger in the epilogue. To me, that's overdone in general. Not a bad book, but not the best one I've ever read either.