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A review by thehaileybirdie
Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare
3.0
This book had a lot of complications in it, lots of wrenches thrown into the plans, lots of forbidden love, you know the usual. I honestly don’t feel like a whole lot got done in this book even though it’s several hundred pages long. Of course things were happening and questions were answered but not much as far as plot and character progression. The pacing just wasn’t the best to me and the POV switching gave insight but also slowed down the amount of stuff you could actually get done. It only really picked up literally in the last maybe 50 or so pages.
To be honest I don’t remember much of this book only that the POV changes were kinda hard because it was only a new paragraph sometimes separated by 3 stars sometimes not so I would find myself still reading in the previous characters voice and getting confused and needing to reread it and that I really hate the Cohort.
I think this book would’ve been better received if I had read it like years and years in the future when we weren’t currently dealing with Cohort level bigotry in the real world today. It’s hard when you’re so full of rage with the world and you see it reflected in this fantasy world as well. It fits because usually the shadow world mimics the mundane world and it’s set in present day but still. When you use fantasy as an escape from your own world and your own troubles and you end up facing those same things where you’re trying to escape to it just gets frustrating.
To be honest I don’t remember much of this book only that the POV changes were kinda hard because it was only a new paragraph sometimes separated by 3 stars sometimes not so I would find myself still reading in the previous characters voice and getting confused and needing to reread it and that I really hate the Cohort.
I think this book would’ve been better received if I had read it like years and years in the future when we weren’t currently dealing with Cohort level bigotry in the real world today. It’s hard when you’re so full of rage with the world and you see it reflected in this fantasy world as well. It fits because usually the shadow world mimics the mundane world and it’s set in present day but still. When you use fantasy as an escape from your own world and your own troubles and you end up facing those same things where you’re trying to escape to it just gets frustrating.