Scan barcode
A review by shimauchiha
Angels Twice Descending by Robin Wasserman, Cassandra Clare
5.0
Tales from shadowhunter academy always had the feeling of fanfiction for me,
I mean in any other series, they would make the perfect fanfiction material, daring people to tell the tales left unsaid. Of course this doesn't happen in Shadowhunter's world, because there nothing is ever left unsaid by the author.
Calm down, I'm not Clare-bashing. I actually have a point.
So you see, in a fanfiction, sure there is angst but you hardly ever expect a beloved character to just die, usually people just aren't ruthless enough to that. That's reason number one I didn't expect this ending.
Reason number two would be that this was written by Cassandra Clare and she is extremely kind to her characters. Sure, the end of TID had me crying my eyes out, but it didn't take away from the fact that basically it was the happiest ending possible. The end of TMI was kind of sickeningly sweet, Perfect happily ever after.
That's reason number two I didn't expect this ending.
I did read the synopsis, yes. You know what I took away from that? That the old Simon would die and the new Simon would be reborn.
I was just blindsided. I did not see the ending of this coming until the last second.
It hit me hard.
I mean in any other series, they would make the perfect fanfiction material, daring people to tell the tales left unsaid. Of course this doesn't happen in Shadowhunter's world, because there nothing is ever left unsaid by the author.
Calm down, I'm not Clare-bashing. I actually have a point.
So you see, in a fanfiction, sure there is angst but you hardly ever expect a beloved character to just die, usually people just aren't ruthless enough to that. That's reason number one I didn't expect this ending.
Reason number two would be that this was written by Cassandra Clare and she is extremely kind to her characters. Sure, the end of TID had me crying my eyes out, but it didn't take away from the fact that basically it was the happiest ending possible. The end of TMI was kind of sickeningly sweet, Perfect happily ever after.
That's reason number two I didn't expect this ending.
I did read the synopsis, yes. You know what I took away from that? That the old Simon would die and the new Simon would be reborn.
I was just blindsided. I did not see the ending of this coming until the last second.
It hit me hard.