I'm so sad that I didn't love this book. I really wanted to. Magnus Bane is one of my favorite characters, and I was excited to get to know him more. The first few stories were... I don't know, it felt different. Maybe its because Cassandra wrote it with different authors. I didn't enjoy the first few stories.

Maybe short stories just aren't for me. Some felt very slow, and others were just getting interesting at the end. But there were some I did like, here is my rating for each story:

What Really Happened in Peru 2/5
The Runaway Queen 2.5/5
Vampires, Scones and Edmund Herondale 3/5
The Midnight Heir 3/5
The Rise of the Hotel Dumort 1.5/5
Saving Raphael Santiago 3.5/5
The Fall of the Hotel Dumort 2.5/5
What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything (And Who You're Not Officially Dating Anyway) 4/5
The Last Stand of the New York Institute 2.5/5
The Course of True Love (And First Dates) 4/5
The Voicemail of Magnus Bane 3/5

I loved reading this book, it was interesting, and I have always wondered what the word would've been like if Germany won World War II. There were so many shocking scenes, where I was like "how?!".

I'm a little confused about the ending, I didn't really expect it and hoped for some more answers, but it was still good.

I liked the writing, even though I'm not a big fan of first pov. I couldn't put this book away, and it was easy and quick to read, sometimes I was shocked at how many pages I had read.

I would definitely recommend this book!

I didn't know if I should give this 4 or 5 stars. I actually want to give it 5 stars, but I wasn't 100% positive about this book (more like 98%). The notes made by Clary, Simin and Jace were fun, but sometimes difficult to read (I have a paperback version, not sure if it's better in a hardcover), and there were some parts that weren't as interesting as other parts.

Yet, I really liked reading this. Getting to know more about the history of Shadowhunters, the Downworld and demons and angels. Some parts had a lot of information, (sometimes so much it became slightly uninteresting) and some parts didn't have as much information as I liked. (Also, Henry Branwell and an ANONYMOUS WARLOCK? Everyone should know that it was Magnus! But I still liked to see the references to The Infernal Devices)

I would definitely recommend this book if you're a fan of the Shadowhunter Chronicles. There's a lot to learn about the ways of the Shadowhunters and Downworlders, and it kind of makes you understand more.

It's that I don't do .5 stars, or else it would be 4.5. I'm now giving it 4 stars, although my heart wants to give it 5. It was so fun to read!

WOW! I loved this book so much! I could not put it down! I'm using way too many exclamation points!

I loved the characters, almost every ship, the storyline and the plot twists.

(Also, every time Jem and Tessa were mentioned, I got so happy!)

DNF

So, I've had this book in my bookshelves for so long, I think I saw it in some 'books you should read' video and, honestly, I don't know why I added it to my wish list. I'm not sure if I even knew what it was about.

But anyway my grandmother gave it for Christmas a few years ago, but I never ended up picking it up because I'm that kind if person who buys a lot of new books and prefers to read those. I decided that I wanted to read some of the oldest unread books on my shelves. And here we are.

I DNFed it.

I have to be honest, I stopped at 10 pages, I was already annoyed by:

- The short chapters, I checked the rest of the book to see there were a lot of short chapters
- The first person pov. I've read other books with it, and usually I get used to it as some point, but it still annoys me.
- The way Jack acted in the first chapter about him.

Going into this book I already knew I wasn't going to like it, but my goal for this year is to, like I said, read some of the oldest unread books on my shelf AND not easily DNF a book. So I was going to give it a try.

After 10 pages I decided to look up other people's opinions and saw a lot of people talk about how, even though the character is overweight, it's still offensive. I haven't read the book, so I won't know it's true, but the lines that I've read people talk about, they made me pretty upset. (I'm overweight. Maybe that's why I wanted the book, it has an overweight character and most books only have skinny girls).

So yeah, I decided that I'm not going to continue reading this book. I'd rather spend my time reading a book that I'm actually interested in, and know that I'll like it.

Maybe I'll give it another try sometime, I don't want to give my copy away because my grandmother gave it to me. I might give Jennifer Niven's other books a chance, but I don't think this is a book for me.

Maybe I'm too young to enjoy a classic (I usually read Young Adult) but I didn't find this book interesting. It was very forgettable and to me a little boring, things happened very fast and although it's a short book it felt like it took me a really long time to finish it.

OH MY GOD!
This book was AMAZING. I could not put this down (I know, I know, that's a cheesy thing to say... hehe, pun intended). This was cute and fun, but also had some serious moments where, and I apologize for my language, I couldn't help but say "oooh, fuck" out loud. (I also said that when the book ended because I didn't want this book to end, I loved it so much!) I would definitely recommend it!

The anonymous chatting reminded me a little of Simom Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, and I decided that I really like that theme, and hope to find more books with it.

I also LOVED these characters (except Pepper's mom, I really didn't like Pepper's mom).