4.5☆ (I don't know whether to give it 4 or 5, both don't feel satisfying)

Oh wow. I was a little hesitant at first, because it has been some time since I read the first 3 tmr books (I think 2018 or 2019) and I wasn't sure if I'd still enjoy this world (even though I read the last 2 books in 2020 and liked them).

But wow.

Idk if this sounds weird, but I feel like after reading this, I have closure? Every time I thought about Newt dying in The Death Cure, I was sad. Because I thought that he never even found out about his sister, but this book proves me wrong. He remembered his family. He died remembering most of his life, after finding a somewhat new family and saving them. This was a satisfying ending, and for the first time I'm not angry at the fact that he's dead (though I still wished he would be alive, in the epilogue when it said that he was alive I had some hope that it would be a big plottwist and that he was saved and never died, but sadly this was not the case)

Even though this gave me closure, I'm still heartbroken, and this has once more proven that Newt is my favorite character in this series. (Well, he and Minho share the number one spot)

Once again Goodreads deleted my rating. So I'm adding it to my review in case it gets deleted again. I don't remember what rating I gave this, but I think it was 4 stars

I loved seeing Tessa, Will and all the others from The Infernal Devices again! TID is definitely one of my favorite series ever, and I love the characters. I really enjoyed the new characters that were introduced, although they weren't 100% new since they were introduced in some of Cassandra's stories in The Bane Chronicles, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy and Ghost of the Shadow Market.

While I didn't love this as much as TID anf The Dark Artifacts, I am really excited to read more of these characters in upcoming books! The storylines were really interesting, and I found myself unable to stop reading most of the time.

I didn't care much for the 'Days Past' chapters, but I get that they were important for the story.

This review hasn't been online for a month and Goodreads already deleted my rating...

(Update, 22 feb 2021: Goodreads has now deleted this rating twice)

It took me some time getting into it, I wasn't immediately convinced. At some point I thought I wouldn't enjoy this as much as other people did - because with a lot of popular books, that's the case. But then around the middle of the book, it started to get interesting, and I was definitely convinced.

I like that this book isn't fully focused on romance. I mean, I love YA romance books, I love shipping characters, but it was still a nice change.

I did not expect to like Cardan, and I hated him until the ending of the book. I'm not sure I like him yet, but I don't hate him anymore either, he's definitely an interesting character.

The ending didn't really surprise me. I suspected a little, because I already know the title of the second book in this series. 'The Wicked King'. Though I also kinda expected the plan to fail and Balekin to be that 'Wicked King'.

I'm curious to continue this series soon!

This is definitely my favorite book in the series! Wow! I absolutely loved this, and with the last few chapters I couldn't stop smiling! There were things I definitely didn't expect. Wow!

Uhm, wow.

Unlike the first 2 books, I was immediately pulled into the story, and I never got bored or easily distracted. I've been reading all day, not able to put it down.

This is definitely a satisfying ending, but I'm still sad it's over. Some of the major plottwists I kinda suspected, but they still surprised me. I liked suspecting them, I was like 'I knew it! I knew it!' It's a good feeling.

I actually started liking Taryn a little, I hated her in the first 2 books.

I enjoyed every page and every storyline and every plottwist. I now definitely get the hype about this series. And I now also definitely get the hype about Jude and Cardan, reading the first book I was so confused why people liked them together. Now I like them together too.

Wow, I don't know what to say. I've been reading it all day, read almost 80 or 90% of the book in one day, which usually takes me a few days, and my mind is still shocked and surprised and sad that this reading experience is over.

DNF at around 30%

Normally I don't DNF books, because I'm obsessed with my reading challenge goal and keeping lists of books I read that month or year and DNFing means that I can't include it and that the time I spend trying to read it, was for nothing.

But damn, I could not get into this book. It got so boring, it started to feel like a chore to finish this. I got to chapter 12, but couldn't go further. I was just not interested. Which is surprising, because I really like mythology.

I'm sad that I didn't like this. I had expected to like this because mythology + lgbtq+ = a perfect book for me. And so many people loved this book, but I really don't get why.

2.5 stars, while the first book in the series was surprisingly amazing, this was such a disappointment. Only maybe the first 50 pages and the last 30 pages were interesting, the rest was slow and sometimes boring.

And one of the things that bothered me a lot was Mal. Gosh, I don't know if I've ever found a not villain character so incredibly annoying. Sometimes I had to put away the book because I got so frustrated with him. It feels like 90% of his personality was jealousy.

Their country is in danger, but all Mal cared about was not being able to spend time alone with Alina, who was trying her best to find a way to save the country? And oh if she even dared to look at Nikolai, nope.

Speaking of Nikolai, he might be the only character I genuinely like. I feel neutral about most other characters. (Except, obviously, Mal, who I deeply dislike)

The only reason I didn't stop reading is because I want to read the books before the show is released, which is pretty soon (it's currently March 10, 2021, the show is released in the end of April)

4.5☆

This was a nice surprise! The only reason I bought the series is because the show will be released soon, and I wanted to read the books first, because normally I always find the book after I watched a show or movie.

When I picked it up, I thought I was going to feel 'meh' about it. I've seen mixed reviews, and some things about both the books and the trailer for the show, and thought that maybe this book series wouldn't be that interesting for me.

But I was wrong. Wow. I was so wrong. I was immediately pulled into the story (though the way it started bothered me a little, you're immediately thrown into the world without any explanations, and it felt like I accidentally skipped a chapter) and the pages went by before I know it. What normally took me a day to read, now took me 2 hours. And I didn't want to stop reading. On week days I'm busy for school, preparing for exams, and I noticed I kept thinking about this book and how excited I was to continue after I was done with my school stuff that day.

There were definitely some surprises in this book. There were at least 2 moments where I just stared at the page, thinking 'oh wow'.

I didn't always like the characters, but that didn't bother me and didn't make the book any less fun.

Normally I don't 'binge read' series, I usually read one or two books in between, but I am now definitely going to pick up the next book! I'm so excited to continue this series!

3.5☆

This was surprisingly interesting, though sometimes it got a little too much. I normally don't have problems reading English (English isn't my first language) but there were a lot of sentences I skipped because they didn't make sense to me.

Overall it was entertaining. I only picked it up for my school's reading list, but I might give the rest of the series a try sometime.