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A review by coachamanda
Queen of Air and Darkness by Cassandra Clare
1.0
***I have no idea why it says reading for the second time Im really bad at this but I have not even read it through once I just don't know how to work this thing
*****I have not finished this book I am only about 70 pages in so it could possibly get really good and I just wouldn't know that and I admit it. But now that I've said that I'll share my opinion of the first part because I have no desire to read further.
This book is terrible. I have never reviewed anything before, I never really felt a need, but this book is by far the worst book I have read in my entire life. The fact that this book exists gives my actual pain, and whenever I have to think about this book my overall day gets worse. The time I have spent reading this book is the most time I have wasted in my life. If I never have to hear the name Cassandra Claire again I will still have heard it too much. Now that I'm done with my initial rant, I'll give some reasons.
There are a few reasons why I feel this is the worst book I have ever read. It is amazingly liberally biased and makes no effort to hide that fact that it is making an effort (a bad one) at symbolizing our present political situation. The whole thing with building a wall and hating downworlders feels very cheap to me. The way I see it the two sides represent the two political parties, which is not a terrible deal on its own. The terrible part is because it is incredibly onesided and unbalanced. The Blackthorns and other protagonists are on the "good" side. I call it the good side because the objectives are so obviously morally correct that any sane person would agree to them. Not killing downworders. Pretty basic right? Not blaming a whole race for the crimes of a single entity. These ploys make it seem like these political sides the Claire has assigned to her books are very one sided. Obviously in this book one is right, but in the real world it is not so black and white. This brings me to my next point.
All of the characters are so clearly black and white. There are the good people and the bad people. Zara and her friends are so clearly bad that it gets unrealistic to most of the people in the world. I'll cite the "snickering" the the funeral. Really????? like what??????? why?????? They are so evil and I'm pretty sure no explanation was given to why???? They are just bad for the sake of being bad and giving to protagonists motivation and challenges. This makes that whole storyline boring and just ugh.
Though I understand that Claire likes to make her characters diverse, it feels like she is just looking at a checklist of character traits she has to include to make her book appeal to a certain kind of people. This makes it all seem very forced and overall really, really, stupid.
Lastly, I hate Diana's storyline. Let me make this very clear. I do not hate her storyline because she is transgender. I hate her storyline because the only thing she talks about is the stupid fairy guy. I hate it because it is so boring.
I hate the way this book is formatted. The fact that every character gets pov time is so ridiculous. It feels like every two pages they change. Right, when I would start to get into a characters plot, their section would be over and I would have to read a bunch of stupid unnecessary stuff and forget what was happening to this character. This style sucks!
One last little things about the series in general. I feel like it is just a money grab for Claire. The plot of the other books is basic at best, and she really enjoys telling the same story over and over again. The fact that she has revived her original characters (Clary, Jace, Izzy...) just feels very forced to me. I would rather have said goodbye after the last book in the mortal instraments than watch them get old and helpless.
So as I said, I am not even close to finishing the book, so it could get amazing, but sadly, I will never know. These are just the things that have been bugging me. So ummm, if you don't agree with anything I said, thats okay it's just my opinion on the book. I'm just being honest about some of my problems with it.
*****I have not finished this book I am only about 70 pages in so it could possibly get really good and I just wouldn't know that and I admit it. But now that I've said that I'll share my opinion of the first part because I have no desire to read further.
This book is terrible. I have never reviewed anything before, I never really felt a need, but this book is by far the worst book I have read in my entire life. The fact that this book exists gives my actual pain, and whenever I have to think about this book my overall day gets worse. The time I have spent reading this book is the most time I have wasted in my life. If I never have to hear the name Cassandra Claire again I will still have heard it too much. Now that I'm done with my initial rant, I'll give some reasons.
There are a few reasons why I feel this is the worst book I have ever read. It is amazingly liberally biased and makes no effort to hide that fact that it is making an effort (a bad one) at symbolizing our present political situation. The whole thing with building a wall and hating downworlders feels very cheap to me. The way I see it the two sides represent the two political parties, which is not a terrible deal on its own. The terrible part is because it is incredibly onesided and unbalanced. The Blackthorns and other protagonists are on the "good" side. I call it the good side because the objectives are so obviously morally correct that any sane person would agree to them. Not killing downworders. Pretty basic right? Not blaming a whole race for the crimes of a single entity. These ploys make it seem like these political sides the Claire has assigned to her books are very one sided. Obviously in this book one is right, but in the real world it is not so black and white. This brings me to my next point.
All of the characters are so clearly black and white. There are the good people and the bad people. Zara and her friends are so clearly bad that it gets unrealistic to most of the people in the world. I'll cite the "snickering" the the funeral. Really????? like what??????? why?????? They are so evil and I'm pretty sure no explanation was given to why???? They are just bad for the sake of being bad and giving to protagonists motivation and challenges. This makes that whole storyline boring and just ugh.
Though I understand that Claire likes to make her characters diverse, it feels like she is just looking at a checklist of character traits she has to include to make her book appeal to a certain kind of people. This makes it all seem very forced and overall really, really, stupid.
Lastly, I hate Diana's storyline. Let me make this very clear. I do not hate her storyline because she is transgender. I hate her storyline because the only thing she talks about is the stupid fairy guy. I hate it because it is so boring.
I hate the way this book is formatted. The fact that every character gets pov time is so ridiculous. It feels like every two pages they change. Right, when I would start to get into a characters plot, their section would be over and I would have to read a bunch of stupid unnecessary stuff and forget what was happening to this character. This style sucks!
One last little things about the series in general. I feel like it is just a money grab for Claire. The plot of the other books is basic at best, and she really enjoys telling the same story over and over again. The fact that she has revived her original characters (Clary, Jace, Izzy...) just feels very forced to me. I would rather have said goodbye after the last book in the mortal instraments than watch them get old and helpless.
So as I said, I am not even close to finishing the book, so it could get amazing, but sadly, I will never know. These are just the things that have been bugging me. So ummm, if you don't agree with anything I said, thats okay it's just my opinion on the book. I'm just being honest about some of my problems with it.