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henrietta_h 's review for:
Lady Midnight
by Cassandra Clare
Cassandra Clare back at it again with a masterpiece.
When I started the book, I had really high hopes, because her other books were amazing. TMI chained my thoughts, making me dream about the characters and thinking about them all day long. I expected it to be just as good. But, this first book wasn't as good as The City of Bones. The Dark Artifices really has the premise to be a better series than TMI, but only if the second book will be better than this.
I'm not saying I didn't love it. Oh, man how I did. Julian is an amazing character, so respectable, lovable, and just the best type of human/shadowhunter. Emma was years better than Clary (back than, in the TMI series) much more mature, stronger, more stubborn, and her parents' death made her even more lovable. The other characters were just as outstanding as our protagonists, and I really think Cassandra has a supernatural power that she uses to write and describe her fascinating characters.
So the problem was not with the characters, but more with the plot. The actions were really slow and scarce in number as opposed to what I was used to from the other series. I had waited way too long for the actions to speed up, and then I felt that things just fell flat at the end. But I truly believe that the second and third book can correct this issue.
The only thing that bothered me, besides the lack of action would be the lack of communication between Emma and Jules. At the end of the book we encounter the same mistake almost every character does in Cassy's books: not talking about the problems. It is a huge issue and shows how immature characters can be, which can truly piss me off. But than again, this can be solved throughout the other books.
In conclusion, if you want to know about the other series' characters, or you just need more Shadowhunter adventure in your ordinary, mundane life: you have to read Lady Midnight.
When I started the book, I had really high hopes, because her other books were amazing. TMI chained my thoughts, making me dream about the characters and thinking about them all day long. I expected it to be just as good. But, this first book wasn't as good as The City of Bones. The Dark Artifices really has the premise to be a better series than TMI, but only if the second book will be better than this.
I'm not saying I didn't love it. Oh, man how I did. Julian is an amazing character, so respectable, lovable, and just the best type of human/shadowhunter. Emma was years better than Clary (back than, in the TMI series) much more mature, stronger, more stubborn, and her parents' death made her even more lovable. The other characters were just as outstanding as our protagonists, and I really think Cassandra has a supernatural power that she uses to write and describe her fascinating characters.
So the problem was not with the characters, but more with the plot. The actions were really slow and scarce in number as opposed to what I was used to from the other series. I had waited way too long for the actions to speed up, and then I felt that things just fell flat at the end. But I truly believe that the second and third book can correct this issue.
The only thing that bothered me, besides the lack of action would be the lack of communication between Emma and Jules. At the end of the book we encounter the same mistake almost every character does in Cassy's books: not talking about the problems. It is a huge issue and shows how immature characters can be, which can truly piss me off. But than again, this can be solved throughout the other books.
In conclusion, if you want to know about the other series' characters, or you just need more Shadowhunter adventure in your ordinary, mundane life: you have to read Lady Midnight.