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A review by crystalm17
The Shadowhunter's Codex by Joshua Lewis, Cassandra Clare
2.0
The Shadowhunter's Codex was in the vein of Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages, i.e. a book that was mentioned in the author's series and then turned into a "textbook" with comments from the characters. But where Rowling shined with additional commentary on her exciting world, Claire failed.
Sure some of the Clary, Have and Simon commentary was cute and Clary's supposed added drawings were neat to examine but the text itself left a lot to be desired. First, the book was having an identity crisis. Yes it's supposedly the translated English copy, 11th edition or something, but it flipped back and forth between being too formal (annoyingly like a real textbook with long winded, mind numbing facts) and too informal. What a reader knows from the books is that the Clave is pretty formal and rule specific and I can't imagine they'd allow the passive aggressive and sarcastic passages that some of the sections were. (At least with Rowling's books we already knew quite a lot of the older wizards could be goofballs).
After having read the first five Mortal Instruments books and the Infernal Devices I really don't think there was much about the world I cared to know, at least not in the dry textbook like entries that sometimes took up pages and pages.
Sure some of the Clary, Have and Simon commentary was cute and Clary's supposed added drawings were neat to examine but the text itself left a lot to be desired. First, the book was having an identity crisis. Yes it's supposedly the translated English copy, 11th edition or something, but it flipped back and forth between being too formal (annoyingly like a real textbook with long winded, mind numbing facts) and too informal. What a reader knows from the books is that the Clave is pretty formal and rule specific and I can't imagine they'd allow the passive aggressive and sarcastic passages that some of the sections were. (At least with Rowling's books we already knew quite a lot of the older wizards could be goofballs).
After having read the first five Mortal Instruments books and the Infernal Devices I really don't think there was much about the world I cared to know, at least not in the dry textbook like entries that sometimes took up pages and pages.