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rachelfisk 's review for:
The Iron Trial
by Holly Black, Cassandra Clare
**Minor Spoiler Alert**
I don't write reviews, but I feel like one is called for here just because so many people are bashing the book about being a Harry Potter rip-off without actually reading the book, just because Cassandra Clare co-wrote it.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and while I understand that other people have different tastes to me, I am old-fashioned in a sense that i believe you actually have to read a good portion of a book to form a valid opinion on it.
A lot of people are commenting on how from the cover, the main character looks so much like Draco Malfoy, but if you read even the tiniest bit of the book you would relise that the blonde boy on the cover isn't the protagonist, but rather, from our understanding at this point in time, is the hero of the series.
Which brings me to my next point. This book is surprising in the fact that the protagonist isn't the hero of the series, but something completely different.
The protagonist is not Harry Potter, I actually found there voices and personalities to be completely different, but that may be just how I imagined them.
There were elements that were similar to Harry Potter, but then again, what major YA fantasy series nowadays doesn't? There were also elements similar to other series, of which, they were listed at the back (of my copy atleast) as an answer to the question of if there were any books or films that influenced the book.
There were a few minor problems I found through out the book, but nothing major. I could tell it was written for people younger than myself (I'm 18, the books were written for about the same age group as Percy Jackson), but that wasn't that bad. Rhe most major problem was that at times the characters acted a bit mature for what I imagine 12 year olds to be like, but even then that's not to big.
Overall I found it to be a really good and enjoyable read, and that you should actually read a book before you completely tear the book a part :)
I don't write reviews, but I feel like one is called for here just because so many people are bashing the book about being a Harry Potter rip-off without actually reading the book, just because Cassandra Clare co-wrote it.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and while I understand that other people have different tastes to me, I am old-fashioned in a sense that i believe you actually have to read a good portion of a book to form a valid opinion on it.
A lot of people are commenting on how from the cover, the main character looks so much like Draco Malfoy, but if you read even the tiniest bit of the book you would relise that the blonde boy on the cover isn't the protagonist, but rather, from our understanding at this point in time, is the hero of the series.
Which brings me to my next point. This book is surprising in the fact that the protagonist isn't the hero of the series, but something completely different.
The protagonist is not Harry Potter, I actually found there voices and personalities to be completely different, but that may be just how I imagined them.
There were elements that were similar to Harry Potter, but then again, what major YA fantasy series nowadays doesn't? There were also elements similar to other series, of which, they were listed at the back (of my copy atleast) as an answer to the question of if there were any books or films that influenced the book.
There were a few minor problems I found through out the book, but nothing major. I could tell it was written for people younger than myself (I'm 18, the books were written for about the same age group as Percy Jackson), but that wasn't that bad. Rhe most major problem was that at times the characters acted a bit mature for what I imagine 12 year olds to be like, but even then that's not to big.
Overall I found it to be a really good and enjoyable read, and that you should actually read a book before you completely tear the book a part :)