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A review by slowreader7f3b1
City of Bones: The Graphic Novel by Mike Raicht, Cassandra Clare, Nicole Virella
1.0
So, I read the Dark Artifices first, which I understand to have been written almost 10 years after the TMI series, but I find DA to be far superior.
Regarding the 1-star rating: This book presents both anti-Semitic and anti-gender-confirming-dress comments as "humor". I'm reading the second book now, only because I'm assuming the author learned from their mistakes, since I didn't see any of that in the later Dark Artifices series--in fact, without spoiling, the tolerance seems to have grown by leaps and bounds. Still, it felt like a slap to spot both kinds of comments presented as "good natured fun" in this book:
-Simon remarks that he was being funny when he was spitballing about how to offend Jewish vampires, and says something to the effect of "write a check for [low sum]" a direct nod to the anti-Semitic stereotype that Jewish people love cash.
-Later in the book, Clarissa makes a joke at the expense of individuals who wear gender-confirming dress, as if that is a bad thing. She invokes the outdated word "transvestite" with what we the readers are supposed to take as a detestable quality, apparently as bad as a "cat molester". Fucking hell.
My recommendation: Go straight to the DA series, not only is it brilliantly written, it is much more in tune with the times.
Regarding the 1-star rating: This book presents both anti-Semitic and anti-gender-confirming-dress comments as "humor". I'm reading the second book now, only because I'm assuming the author learned from their mistakes, since I didn't see any of that in the later Dark Artifices series--in fact, without spoiling, the tolerance seems to have grown by leaps and bounds. Still, it felt like a slap to spot both kinds of comments presented as "good natured fun" in this book:
-Simon remarks that he was being funny when he was spitballing about how to offend Jewish vampires, and says something to the effect of "write a check for [low sum]" a direct nod to the anti-Semitic stereotype that Jewish people love cash.
-Later in the book, Clarissa makes a joke at the expense of individuals who wear gender-confirming dress, as if that is a bad thing. She invokes the outdated word "transvestite" with what we the readers are supposed to take as a detestable quality, apparently as bad as a "cat molester". Fucking hell.
My recommendation: Go straight to the DA series, not only is it brilliantly written, it is much more in tune with the times.