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A review by aprildiamond
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
1.0
Before this, in order for a book to receive a 1 star review from me it had to be absolute garbage in all aspects, without a single redeeming quality.
I am horrified to announce that now, there’s a faster way to 1 star - promotion of incest!
Listen, I know that Clary and Jace are going to turn out to be not related, yadda yadda, whatever. That does not change the fact that both of them THOUGHT they were related and (Jace) decided to try and continue a relationship. We all had to read about characters being internally conflicted over the fact that they were romantically in love with someone they thought was their sibling.
As an author, you have control over every part of your story. So I am at a loss as to WHY ON EARTH this ENTIRE MESS would ever make it into the books??? Does the author LIKE faux-incest plot lines??? Like, is it not uncomfortable to write a make-out scene between two characters who think they are brother and sister??? Just WHY???
In my opinion, if the only way you can make a plot point work is by having two people in love find out they’re related, just THROW THAT SHIT OUT. It’s not worth it. So, SO not worth it.
That’s all the justification I need for 1 star but there’s more garbage that I want to acknowledge.
Jace is literally THE WORST. HE’S TRASH. I guess I’m supposed to like him because
1) he’s a protagonist
2) tragic backstory
But no, he’s awful and I don’t care how sucky his childhood was, if he’s a jerk I’m going to react to him like he’s a jerk. Okay, at the start the dude goes into a bar with werewolves who have done nothing to him and NONSTOP starts aggravating and insulting them. After one of them has JUST BEEN MURDERED. When he rightfully gets his ass beat, Clary is like “oh yeah that’s jace always getting into fights” babe he’s a menace PLEASE throw him out already.
I need the author to end my misery and kill him off. I can’t do it anymore. He’s weirdly possessive (of course), toxically overprotective, toxic in general, arrogant, never learns to be a better person and honestly words can’t describe how much I hate Jace. please end his character. I’m begging here………. please…….
If we ignore the whole incest lens, which is a phrase I never thought I’d have to type, Clary and Jace have 0 chemistry. I was trying to ignore their relationship the entire book but suddenly had this epiphany when Jace gave Simon his blood. The whole scene had more sexual tension than Clary and Jace had EVER HAD. Not even kidding… they always acted like they were secretly hot for each other… but this was next level. Clary+Jace is out and Jace+Simon is in, babey.
Unfortunately for my sanity I’m reading this whole series but I need a LONG hiatus before I can even look at the next book in this nightmare ride.
I am horrified to announce that now, there’s a faster way to 1 star - promotion of incest!
Listen, I know that Clary and Jace are going to turn out to be not related, yadda yadda, whatever. That does not change the fact that both of them THOUGHT they were related and (Jace) decided to try and continue a relationship. We all had to read about characters being internally conflicted over the fact that they were romantically in love with someone they thought was their sibling.
As an author, you have control over every part of your story. So I am at a loss as to WHY ON EARTH this ENTIRE MESS would ever make it into the books??? Does the author LIKE faux-incest plot lines??? Like, is it not uncomfortable to write a make-out scene between two characters who think they are brother and sister??? Just WHY???
In my opinion, if the only way you can make a plot point work is by having two people in love find out they’re related, just THROW THAT SHIT OUT. It’s not worth it. So, SO not worth it.
That’s all the justification I need for 1 star but there’s more garbage that I want to acknowledge.
Jace is literally THE WORST. HE’S TRASH. I guess I’m supposed to like him because
1) he’s a protagonist
2) tragic backstory
But no, he’s awful and I don’t care how sucky his childhood was, if he’s a jerk I’m going to react to him like he’s a jerk. Okay, at the start the dude goes into a bar with werewolves who have done nothing to him and NONSTOP starts aggravating and insulting them. After one of them has JUST BEEN MURDERED. When he rightfully gets his ass beat, Clary is like “oh yeah that’s jace always getting into fights” babe he’s a menace PLEASE throw him out already.
I need the author to end my misery and kill him off. I can’t do it anymore. He’s weirdly possessive (of course), toxically overprotective, toxic in general, arrogant, never learns to be a better person and honestly words can’t describe how much I hate Jace. please end his character. I’m begging here………. please…….
If we ignore the whole incest lens, which is a phrase I never thought I’d have to type, Clary and Jace have 0 chemistry. I was trying to ignore their relationship the entire book but suddenly had this epiphany when Jace gave Simon his blood. The whole scene had more sexual tension than Clary and Jace had EVER HAD. Not even kidding… they always acted like they were secretly hot for each other… but this was next level. Clary+Jace is out and Jace+Simon is in, babey.
Unfortunately for my sanity I’m reading this whole series but I need a LONG hiatus before I can even look at the next book in this nightmare ride.