Chain of Iron

If you love Shadowhunter universe - you will love it!(will contain SPOILERS)For me it is my comfort world. Where you can more or less predict the events, more or less know that all that teenage drama will be OK at the end, that the main characters of the book is Misunderstanding, Secret and Interruption. And it's GOOD to have some safe (with all its demons LOL) place to travel, to read about passionate teenage drama and unconfessed love. I rushed trough this book within a day.(As English is not my native language, sorry for my grammar)As for Spoiler part.Things I LOVED - James at his 17 acts really mature. I mean he took his fathers advice to heart and actually TALKED to his wife. I loved that he had such a confidence in their partnership, such trust in Cordelia's strength that he was honest. He has grown up with an excellent parents as an example - strong devoted father, wise mother, loving family and trusted friends. I loved his confidence against all kinds of pressure.Cordelia (perhaps I must read it again to grasp her better) is created strong and capable but with so mush going on I didn't catch her inner motivations at all. Lucy is a little brat who is getting in deeper sh*t than she might manage. But as ALL Cassandras books are about crazy teens who who get neck deep in all kinds of sh*t - no surprises there.I LOVED those marriage scenes. This calm, peaceful couples life that I (as an adult) know is the key to a healthy relationships. Sure as a reader I was truly annoyed by their mutual blindness of love (LOL) but that's the point of the story, right?I LOVED how alcohol addiction was showed. Not only Mathews drinking but also his friends co-addiction. Cordelia and James both writing it off as it is not the same as Elias disastrous sickness. other friends seeing but ignoring to mention it. They textbook justify his behavior. Loved James and Elias scene together.I loved Christopher was shown a little more.Things I DIDN'T love :(Maybe I'm getting old, or have read too much from this world, but I couldn't really feel characters. Perhaps it was too many POVs and thou I understand that there are many things going on and different perspectives gives different feeling - this jumping from one to another was bothering me.I hated Cordelia and Mathew running off. Nope. Do not like it at all. Actually both timesI was annoyed by my own predictions of events. And the knowledge WHY some things were the way they were. Tessa and Will leaving, some demon fights, some visitations just to push the plot Probably that's on me, not Cassandra.Thou I know why they seem to be needed - I didn't like Graces POV. It felt like "telling" even if reader can see why she might be the way she is (Tatianas attitude, Jesses love, Bracelet, her powers). Those inputs were unnecessary.All in all - This was a good book, good story, wasn't a "middle book meh". Perhaps I must read it one more time, this time to focus on details rather than plot events. After I might come to different conclusions.

Chain of Iron picks up a few weeks after the ending of Chain of Gold. Now this being like the second in book in the current series but the like sixteenth book overall, excluding novella bind ups, it is going to incredibly painful to try and not spoil anything.Now I will start off by saying this, Cassandra Clare has never had like stand out plots in her books. There have been some, but she is more characters first before plot kind of story writer. I would say that is entirely true when it come to Chain of Iron. This was a purely character driven story, with plot completely secondary. Again as I said before Chain of Iron picks up with the big event that Chain of Gold set up. Some of you who have read know what said event is, some of you don't. We spend a good majority of the beginning of this book on this event and never really anything plot wise happening, which is okay but I do wish Clare didn't spend as much time as she did on the event. Once we finally got away from said event, the plot got started and the story really took off.I would say I am a reader who needs both plot and character focus in my stories. I can tolerate a story with a great plot and lackluster characters or even vice versa. But for me to really make the story shine I need both. With Chain of Iron it was definitely more character focused like I said, but the plot no matter how small it really was, compelled me. Sure at times it can be predictable, but if the author can still keep my interest, if they can keep me wanting to turn the pages for more, for me that is a win. That is exactly what Clare did with Chain of Iron. I adore these characters, I adore this world, I am so invested with the intricacies of this game board Clare has been weaving since City of Bones.I have to say though, I think this story would have benefited from Clare's initial release plan. Which if I remember correctly she wanted to release it like she did with The Mortal instruments final three books and The Infernal Devices. There are some major plot points and history markers that would have hit differently had she done it that way, in my opinion. I know we would have waited longer for books, but I remember reading The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices that way and truly appreciating how the stories weaved together harmoniously.Are the Shadowhunter books perfect absolutely not, no book is and I will die on that hill defending that argument. The Shadowhunter books however bring me so much joy and escapism and that is what truly makes this series shine for me. I am so looking forward to Chain of Thorns the final book in The Last Hours series. I will also continue to look forward to every Shadowhunter book that is yet to come!

Vale cada centavo. O sehundo é so capa dura lindo. O terceiro, beira a perfeicao.

In some ways I am grateful that I found the Chronicles fairly late. I was able to read all the books in each series back to back without having to wait until the next year when the next novel is released. Now that I've read every book, I am frustrated as I now have to wait to see how the Last Hours will end!I bought the Kindle version and the hardcover...the hardcover version has beautiful paper cutout silhouettes of the main characters throughout the book. At the endof book in the hardcover version (not the Kindle version), there is a bonus story of Jem and Magnus. I can't wait until the conclusion is released!

RAS

This book has completely broken my heart, and I'm not exactly sure how to write a proper review about it, so I'll just ramble on about things that I loved (and who have destroyed me) the most."She knew Alastair was not always like this - she knew he could be kind, sweet, vulnerable even. She knew her father had broken his son's heart a dozen different ways, and Alastair was doing the best he could with the pieces."Chain of Iron intensified my love for Alastair, who remains my favorite character in the trilogy, and made me adore his relationship with Cordelia even more. The love they feel for each other is so precious, and even if Daisy didn't understand her brother and his actions for many years, it's now clear to her that he has always done his best to protect her, despite his own suffering. I just want to hug him."I am nothing like you, Thomas," said Alastair, "because you are one of the better people I have ever known. You have a kind nature and a heart like some knight out of legend. Brave and proud and true and strong. All of it."Also, Alastair and Thomas moments in the Sanctuary was so precious, but the last scene... Cassie, is this pain really necessary? Why can't someone just be happy? Give me a break."I know what it is to be in pain, and not to be able to seek comfort from the one you love most, not to be able to share that pain with anyone you know."Matthew is a sweetheart, my second favorite character, and he absolutely deserves the world. I'm so heartbroken every time I see him suffer and blame himself for his past mistakes, he really doesn't deserve it. Again, I just want to hug him. Again, *insert sobbing gif*.The night was hushed, enchanted. They danced, with only the sound of the softly falling snow as music. It dusted Lucie's cheeks, her eyelashes. She couldn't stop looking at Jesse. He was so beautiful, so awfully, terribly beautiful, like a marble carving of an angel - but no carving had such dark, tumbling hair, such secretive eyes. He held her tight against him as they danced, and for the first time she felt his body close to hers, the shape of him, the strenght in his arms, the lean hardness of his chest beneath his too-thin shirt.Lucie and Jesse's relationship slowly broke my heart, and this may be an unpopular opinion, but I love them as a couple. But that ending, omg ... I have so bad feelings for what's to come next (especially considering the events of TDA).“I thought of you,” he said again, “and it was as if you were there, with me. I saw your face. Your hair …” He wound a finger through a dangling curl beside her face. She could feel the warmth from his hand against her cheek. “And I was no longer afraid. I knew I would be able to come home, because of you. That you would lead me back. You are my constant star, Daisy.”I love Jordelia, really, but things would be so much easier if they were just honest with themselves. (and if Cassie didn't have an overwhelming love for triangles.)

Super wydanie, szybka dostawa 🙂