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A review by starfleckedsoul
Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare
5.0
For years, since the very hour that I've known about Cassandra Clare's announcement that there will be a separate series about this generation of Shadowhunters in the Edwardian era, I have been mulling over a tinge of doubt and worry. Doubt that maybe I will not come to love these new Shadowhunters and worry that the series will not meet my expectations. I was excited for Chain of Gold though, it was the characters I was worried about. BUT.
EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED. I have certainly come to love everyone in this book except Tatiana , Grace, Charles, and Belial. The way Clare writes her characters is something that i will always applaud, she really knows how to make you love and feel for every one of her characters. I also have noticed that even though these characters in Chain of Gold are offsprings of those we love in TID, her writing has made it seem so that we won't be meeting copies of those characters. It's like seeing our beloved TID characters in them, but they're their own personalities. Like, i was trying to see how James was like Will or Jace, but i couldn't place him because he was James, he was different. And Matthew, he remains to be one of the mysteries I've yet to unravel in the next two books. Oh, and the female protagonists. There's this air of women empowerment in the likes of Cordelia and Lucie, the way their carry themselves with everyone else is something i admire.
I would also like to highlight, really, how humanizing Cassandra Clare has applied the inequality between genders during this time period (since TID) that anchors a reader to the fact that this book isn't entirely uninfluenced by mundane beliefs.
And need i mention the twists?! They are killing me!
What I loved most about this book, though, is how ... Perhaps, light, it was. Yes, it was light to read. It's funny, mysterious, dramatic, it's everything I've ever loved in a book. And i am charmed. Here's to another year of suffering the agony of waiting.
EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED. I have certainly come to love everyone in this book except Tatiana , Grace, Charles, and Belial. The way Clare writes her characters is something that i will always applaud, she really knows how to make you love and feel for every one of her characters. I also have noticed that even though these characters in Chain of Gold are offsprings of those we love in TID, her writing has made it seem so that we won't be meeting copies of those characters. It's like seeing our beloved TID characters in them, but they're their own personalities. Like, i was trying to see how James was like Will or Jace, but i couldn't place him because he was James, he was different. And Matthew, he remains to be one of the mysteries I've yet to unravel in the next two books. Oh, and the female protagonists. There's this air of women empowerment in the likes of Cordelia and Lucie, the way their carry themselves with everyone else is something i admire.
I would also like to highlight, really, how humanizing Cassandra Clare has applied the inequality between genders during this time period (since TID) that anchors a reader to the fact that this book isn't entirely uninfluenced by mundane beliefs.
And need i mention the twists?! They are killing me!
What I loved most about this book, though, is how ... Perhaps, light, it was. Yes, it was light to read. It's funny, mysterious, dramatic, it's everything I've ever loved in a book. And i am charmed. Here's to another year of suffering the agony of waiting.