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Things I liked:
1. It's like a TMI spin-off featuring Simon (who has fast become one of my favorite characters in the series).
2. Isabelle/Simon. hohohohoh
3. Clary is slowly becoming a take-control over girl, and not merely the damsel in distress.
Things I didn't like:
1. Jace and Clary's love story has become even more angst-ridden. I liked the incest-related angst, but seriously, I could slap Jace for looking for more excuses to be unhappy.
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This was a pretty enjoyable read, mostly because of the Simon parts. But I think making a book after the trilogy ended was unnecessary. Yes, I really think it was unnecessary. I liked the trilogy but enough is enough.
1. It's like a TMI spin-off featuring Simon (who has fast become one of my favorite characters in the series).
2. Isabelle/Simon. hohohohoh
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way to go, Clare, pairing off the two remaining characters without a partner, but oh well, you did it well, and this is my favorite ship so far.3. Clary is slowly becoming a take-control over girl, and not merely the damsel in distress.
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Quick thinking about ruining Jace's rune, but that wasn't enough. With a character like Clary, though, it's a big improvementThings I didn't like:
1. Jace and Clary's love story has become even more angst-ridden. I liked the incest-related angst, but seriously, I could slap Jace for looking for more excuses to be unhappy.
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Seriously, after the fight ended with Lilith, why oh why did they just leave Jace alone with Sebastian???? You would think that after all they've been through (the Valentine episode and the more recent episode with Lilith), they'd be more paranoid, and effin make sure Sebastian was secured, if they can't kill him. But, no, they left Jace, who's still pretty unstable, alone with Sebastian. It's like watching the girl in a slasher film walk around the house in the dark, knowing there's a killer around there somewhere. Sheesh.This was a pretty enjoyable read, mostly because of the Simon parts. But I think making a book after the trilogy ended was unnecessary. Yes, I really think it was unnecessary. I liked the trilogy but enough is enough.
I think that before the John Greens and Looking for Alaska and what-not, Jerry Spinelli and Stargirl were there. I'm surprised they haven't made a movie for this yet. It's the most basic and simplest story about going against the flow, and of trying to look at things with awe and wonder.
We've seen and read a lot of stories about characters who are 'different' who disrupt the status quo, right? But what the hell, I don't think I'll get tired of reading that kind of story. Because we need to look at the world in a different angle. Look at it, and see beauty and be inspired about it, and let other people see this too.
Stargirl is probably the strangest and most different person you'll ever meet. She sings in the cafeteria with a ukelele, reads the personal classified ads to figure out what to send a person for their birthday, and genuinely doesn't know that that 'isn't done'. She's not like most of us, she's like what we should and can be.
Sometimes, you don't need a complicated and wholly original plot line to tell a good story. And Stargirl is one of those stories.
We've seen and read a lot of stories about characters who are 'different' who disrupt the status quo, right? But what the hell, I don't think I'll get tired of reading that kind of story. Because we need to look at the world in a different angle. Look at it, and see beauty and be inspired about it, and let other people see this too.
Stargirl is probably the strangest and most different person you'll ever meet. She sings in the cafeteria with a ukelele, reads the personal classified ads to figure out what to send a person for their birthday, and genuinely doesn't know that that 'isn't done'. She's not like most of us, she's like what we should and can be.
Sometimes, you don't need a complicated and wholly original plot line to tell a good story. And Stargirl is one of those stories.
Since this is the first Agatha Christie I read, the ending really had me. It was one of those "how could I have not seen that coming?". It's a classic murder-mystery story which I love, and you can never forget the first novel of the author you read. Christie said this was one of her favorite novels to write, and I can see why.
