micaelamariem's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Classism, Bullying, Grief, Suicide, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death, Murder, Death of parent, Child death, and Injury/injury detail
autumnal_moon's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Child death
Moderate: Death of parent and Violence
Minor: Child abuse
tiana_king's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Injury/injury detail, Death, Grief, Murder, Confinement, and War
Moderate: Mental illness, Blood, Child death, Incest, and Pregnancy
Minor: Child abuse, Suicide, and Torture
elsa_clare's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.75
Moderate: Murder, Violence, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Grief, Gore, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Death, Confinement, Child abuse, Blood, and Abandonment
Minor: Incest
maruu_t's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.0
Saber que todavía me quedan el 4to y 5to por leer me dan ganas de llorar.
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and War
Moderate: Child abuse, Grief, Incest, and Suicide
piperclover's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Torture, and Child abuse
blakethebookeater's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
There was fun twists and turns and action moments but in the end it was all overshadowed by one infuriating plot line: the incest.
Literally it’s so in your face and drawn out and I hated it sooooo much. Like that “forbidden love” thing disgusts me and doesn’t intrigue me at all so my brain basically shut off everytime that plot line came to the forefront and that was way too often for my liking. Like I was able to mostly handle it in the last book because they knew it was forbidden and tried to resist but at this point they just don’t care and it made me not even want to pick up the novel tbh.
The ending was sweet and left some small threads dangling (presumably for when she stretched a trilogy into six books), and overall this first trilogy was a solid 3 stars from me. Like intriguing at times, fun at others, bad and very bad at times, and sometimes just meh. I can see how it had a foothold in late 00’s YA culture and I’m glad I read them, but I probably wouldn’t read them again.
(One thing I will give Cassandra Clare props for though is a canon gay relationship in the late 00’s when I was still getting called a faggot in middle school. It would’ve made me feel less alone even if I had read about some gay rep at all! Obviously there are better queer books out there but to have a gay relationship in such a major series at the time is pretty awesome.)
3.5/5 stars
Graphic: Incest and Violence
Moderate: Hate crime, Genocide, Misogyny, and Child abuse
Minor: Body horror