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Clockwork Prince
by Cassandra Clare
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This is like a 1.5-2* probably but I'm just annoyed about the whole thing so I'm not rounding it up
My bad streak with the Shadowhunter books continues for yet another month, and I'm fully just accepting the fact now that maybe these books are just not for me, and that's fine. With every book in each series I read, I seem to encounter the same issues over and over again, so my hope is somewhat dwindling. So I'm not going to go into a massive rant review like I have done in the past, you can honestly just read my other reviews and all the same points still stand. The plot in every book so far has been lacking for me, but this one kind of took the biscuit. I genuinely have never read a book that was FIVE HUNDRED PAGES long, and achieved absolutely nothing plotwise. Usually when I finish a book, I sit down and think "Right where were we at the beginning, what was the end goal, and did we achieve it?" not even considering subplots or anything, just main plot. And with this book, there literally was nothing. The plot seemed to be centred around finding Mortmain and confronting him, but... they didn't? And didn't even come close? So we're still exactly where we were at the beginning and I'm stuck thinking... what was the point?
I understand that the romance is supposed to be the main appeal of these books and I've made it clear that the romance here does nothing for me, but even so, there should still be a good plot because it is primarily a fantasy series, and there is nothing happening AT. ALL. The romance love triangle thing is boring to me, and there's obviously a clear end in sight that I'm honestly not here for, and I'm just so over the angst of it all. The "yearning" and angst isn't fun to read, and it's just written to feel more whiny and annoying than emotional.
I don't know, I have a lot of issues with these books, I've made it pretty clear. I just think they're kind of lazy and just lacking all round for me.
This is like a 1.5-2* probably but I'm just annoyed about the whole thing so I'm not rounding it up
My bad streak with the Shadowhunter books continues for yet another month, and I'm fully just accepting the fact now that maybe these books are just not for me, and that's fine. With every book in each series I read, I seem to encounter the same issues over and over again, so my hope is somewhat dwindling. So I'm not going to go into a massive rant review like I have done in the past, you can honestly just read my other reviews and all the same points still stand. The plot in every book so far has been lacking for me, but this one kind of took the biscuit. I genuinely have never read a book that was FIVE HUNDRED PAGES long, and achieved absolutely nothing plotwise. Usually when I finish a book, I sit down and think "Right where were we at the beginning, what was the end goal, and did we achieve it?" not even considering subplots or anything, just main plot. And with this book, there literally was nothing. The plot seemed to be centred around finding Mortmain and confronting him, but... they didn't? And didn't even come close? So we're still exactly where we were at the beginning and I'm stuck thinking... what was the point?
I understand that the romance is supposed to be the main appeal of these books and I've made it clear that the romance here does nothing for me, but even so, there should still be a good plot because it is primarily a fantasy series, and there is nothing happening AT. ALL. The romance love triangle thing is boring to me, and there's obviously a clear end in sight that I'm honestly not here for, and I'm just so over the angst of it all. The "yearning" and angst isn't fun to read, and it's just written to feel more whiny and annoying than emotional.
I don't know, I have a lot of issues with these books, I've made it pretty clear. I just think they're kind of lazy and just lacking all round for me.