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yasmilktea 's review for:
The Iron Trial
by Holly Black, Cassandra Clare
I remember when Clare and Black first announced this new series and I was pretty excited. It sounded like great fun and definitely like something I’d be into. I always thought that if Cassandra Clare and Holly Black got together they could write something awesome because I find that Clare is pretty good with characters and relationships while Black is good with world-building and plot ideas. I don’t think this quite reached the potential it had, but I will get into that later.
The front cover of the ARC I have has a short note from the authors talking about how they came up with the idea for this. I definitely regret reading it because it says outright what the nature of the twist is and so I was trying to guess it the whole time through and it wasn’t all that surprising when I did get to it. Other than this, I did enjoy the book – but unfortunately not nearly as much as I wanted to. I liked the characters and I liked the idea of it. Tamara was especially good, and I like that there’s quite a bit of representation in it too. But Cassandra Clare has always been pretty good with that.
I also thought it was pretty funny and a pretty fun read – kids of all ages would definitely enjoy it and I felt it had a more similar feel to Percy Jackson rather than to Harry Potter unlike what some of the Goodreads comments say (although I have some more to write on that as well).
Read the rest of this review on my blog!
The front cover of the ARC I have has a short note from the authors talking about how they came up with the idea for this. I definitely regret reading it because it says outright what the nature of the twist is and so I was trying to guess it the whole time through and it wasn’t all that surprising when I did get to it. Other than this, I did enjoy the book – but unfortunately not nearly as much as I wanted to. I liked the characters and I liked the idea of it. Tamara was especially good, and I like that there’s quite a bit of representation in it too. But Cassandra Clare has always been pretty good with that.
I also thought it was pretty funny and a pretty fun read – kids of all ages would definitely enjoy it and I felt it had a more similar feel to Percy Jackson rather than to Harry Potter unlike what some of the Goodreads comments say (although I have some more to write on that as well).
Read the rest of this review on my blog!