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The Wicked Ones
by Robin Wasserman, Cassandra Clare
1) Son of the Dawn ★★★
2) Cast Long Shadows ★★
3) Every Exquisite Thing ★★★★★
4) Learn About Loss ★★
5) A Deeper Love ★★★★
6) The Wicked Ones ★★★★
7) The Land I Lost ★★★★★
8) Through Blood, Through Fire ★★★★
9) The Lost World ★★★★
10) Forever Fallen ★★★★½
content warnings: violence, gore, love potion, gaslighting, child abuse
representation: british-chinese side character
“Feeling is what makes us human. Even the most difficult feelings. Perhaps especially those. Love, loss, longing—this is what it means to be truly alive.”
As you can probably tell, I'm halfheartedly reading the e-books of Ghosts of the Shadow Market. I honestly was only planning to read Every Exquisite Thing but then I heard someone say that this should be read before Queen of Air and Darkness, and holy crap they were right.
This story is about Céline, Jace's mum, as a new member of the Circle who is infiltrating the Shadow Market with Stephen Herondale and Robert Lightwood. She also discovers some secrets along the way while pining for Stephen. Concurrent to this main storyline is Brother Zachariah trying to find the lost Herondale and keep them safe.
I ended up enjoying this so much more than I thought I would. Céline was such an interesting and conflicted character who does some horrible, stupid things but is ultimately still a good person, and I loved reading from her perspective. I also love how Cassandra Clare shows the ways that Valentine was so good at manipulating people that, even when they know on some level that they're being manipulated, it doesn't matter because he's that good.
Seeing Jem always makes my heart sing and I loved his short scene with Tessa. Nothing more effectively breaks my heart than seeing these two together while Jem is still a Silent Brother. I also loved the twists and turns that the lost Herondale storyline took and I'm now extremely excited to read the eighth in this series, Through Blood, Through Fire, and see how that ties in.
Even after only reading two of the stories, I can already say with a fair amount of certainty that this collection is easily Cassandra Clare's best.
2) Cast Long Shadows ★★
3) Every Exquisite Thing ★★★★★
4) Learn About Loss ★★
5) A Deeper Love ★★★★
6) The Wicked Ones ★★★★
7) The Land I Lost ★★★★★
8) Through Blood, Through Fire ★★★★
9) The Lost World ★★★★
10) Forever Fallen ★★★★½
content warnings: violence, gore, love potion, gaslighting, child abuse
representation: british-chinese side character
“Feeling is what makes us human. Even the most difficult feelings. Perhaps especially those. Love, loss, longing—this is what it means to be truly alive.”
As you can probably tell, I'm halfheartedly reading the e-books of Ghosts of the Shadow Market. I honestly was only planning to read Every Exquisite Thing but then I heard someone say that this should be read before Queen of Air and Darkness, and holy crap they were right.
This story is about Céline, Jace's mum, as a new member of the Circle who is infiltrating the Shadow Market with Stephen Herondale and Robert Lightwood. She also discovers some secrets along the way while pining for Stephen. Concurrent to this main storyline is Brother Zachariah trying to find the lost Herondale and keep them safe.
I ended up enjoying this so much more than I thought I would. Céline was such an interesting and conflicted character who does some horrible, stupid things but is ultimately still a good person, and I loved reading from her perspective. I also love how Cassandra Clare shows the ways that Valentine was so good at manipulating people that, even when they know on some level that they're being manipulated, it doesn't matter because he's that good.
Seeing Jem always makes my heart sing and I loved his short scene with Tessa. Nothing more effectively breaks my heart than seeing these two together while Jem is still a Silent Brother. I also loved the twists and turns that the lost Herondale storyline took and I'm now extremely excited to read the eighth in this series, Through Blood, Through Fire, and see how that ties in.
Even after only reading two of the stories, I can already say with a fair amount of certainty that this collection is easily Cassandra Clare's best.