A review by shahdhazem
Chain of Iron by Cassandra Clare

adventurous challenging funny mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Really really disappointed by this one. I admit I expected alot getting in but that's because of how the author marketed the books and also the opinions of other readers. I've been reading for several years now so I should've learned a while ago not to get carried away that easily but what can we say, I'm guilty of loving the shadowhunters world. Anyways, let's get to the point. From the first book we figured out that this series is character driven and I'm perfectly okay with that even though they're not the best people to be around except for like 2 or 3 characters. But the thing is; THEY HAD NO DEVELOPMENT IN THIS BOOK WHATSOEVER may I even say most of them got worse. The plot was extremely ridiculous just full of silly drama and clare was literally torturing the only character I cared about, the book got on my nerves immensely I don't even know how I finished it. Also, it was extremely slow and empty the whole events and "excitment" were packed it the last 100 pages and mind you this is a 700 pages long book like wth. I just tolerate this series for the small glimpses of will and tessa that clare throws for us and that's it and that's why I'm giving it 3.5 for the precious scenes of the infernal devices characters and some epic scenes for belial and lilith but if we're being honest with each other this book deserves a maximum of 2.5 no more I'm just too sentimental to do that. No offense to anyone who likes this I'm not judging at all of course this is just my look. Now watch me come crawling and read Chain of Thrones, that's how much I have no control when it comes to shadowhunters.