The Ragpicker King
Just finished reading "The Ragpicker King" by Cassandra Clare, published by Del Rey Books.
"The Ragpicker King" is the second book released in Clare's "Chronicles of Castellane" - which I think is supposed to be a four-book series. And yet, I had the distinct feeling that I had read parts of it before in one of Sherwood Smith's books.
Clare was accused of plagiarism dating back to 2000–2001 when she was writing the fan fiction work The Draco Trilogy. The Christian Science Monitor wrote in 2013 about how Clare's plagiarism and cyberbullying angered many in the Harry Potter online fandom community. Later that year, The Daily Dot described how Clare had copied much of a chapter of The Secret Country (1985), an out-of-print fantasy novel by Pamela Dean, into Clare's own The Draco Trilogy, without attribution to Dean.[24][25] A complaint by another website user in mid-2001 led to a review by FanFiction.Net administrators, resulting in Clare banned for plagiarism and her writings removed from the website.
I'm not saying that Clare plagiarized parts of "The Ragpicker King," but I found parts of it to be familiar - especially about Lin Caster being a goddess reborn who must undergo a trail to prove she is who she says she is.
Kel Saren, body double to Conor, crown prince of the dazzling city of Castellane, is caught between two worlds. In order to protect his beloved prince, Kel must find the culprits responsible for a massacre at the royal palace—and the only clues are held by the Ragpicker King, the notorious criminal who rules Castellane’s underworld. The trail Kel follows leads back to the Hill, where among decadent nobles and glittering parties a dark conspiracy to destroy the royal family has taken hold—a conspiracy headed up by the monstrous Artal Gremont, the man engaged to marry the woman Kel adores.
Meanwhile, Lin Caster must face the aftermath of the greatest risk she’s ever taken. To save the life of a dying friend, Lin has falsely claimed to be the Goddess Reborn, the legendary heroine destined to save her people. Now the terrifying—but strangely magnetic—leader of her people has arrived to test her powers. The price of failure is exile, and only through her alliance with the Ragpicker King can she continue to access the magic that may save her.
Then Prince Conor reappears in her life, demanding that she use her healing powers to cure the madness of his father, the King. Lin soon realizes the King is gripped by an ancient and terrible magic, one whose lure she cannot deny any more than she can deny her growing passion for Conor.
Clare, who has a large following in the LGBT+ community for her Shadowhunter series, shies away from graphic gay sex, though she does include a rather graphic heterosexual encounter.
Weakly Recommended.
Three Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525620028/...
"The Ragpicker King" is the second book released in Clare's "Chronicles of Castellane" - which I think is supposed to be a four-book series. And yet, I had the distinct feeling that I had read parts of it before in one of Sherwood Smith's books.
Clare was accused of plagiarism dating back to 2000–2001 when she was writing the fan fiction work The Draco Trilogy. The Christian Science Monitor wrote in 2013 about how Clare's plagiarism and cyberbullying angered many in the Harry Potter online fandom community. Later that year, The Daily Dot described how Clare had copied much of a chapter of The Secret Country (1985), an out-of-print fantasy novel by Pamela Dean, into Clare's own The Draco Trilogy, without attribution to Dean.[24][25] A complaint by another website user in mid-2001 led to a review by FanFiction.Net administrators, resulting in Clare banned for plagiarism and her writings removed from the website.
I'm not saying that Clare plagiarized parts of "The Ragpicker King," but I found parts of it to be familiar - especially about Lin Caster being a goddess reborn who must undergo a trail to prove she is who she says she is.
Kel Saren, body double to Conor, crown prince of the dazzling city of Castellane, is caught between two worlds. In order to protect his beloved prince, Kel must find the culprits responsible for a massacre at the royal palace—and the only clues are held by the Ragpicker King, the notorious criminal who rules Castellane’s underworld. The trail Kel follows leads back to the Hill, where among decadent nobles and glittering parties a dark conspiracy to destroy the royal family has taken hold—a conspiracy headed up by the monstrous Artal Gremont, the man engaged to marry the woman Kel adores.
Meanwhile, Lin Caster must face the aftermath of the greatest risk she’s ever taken. To save the life of a dying friend, Lin has falsely claimed to be the Goddess Reborn, the legendary heroine destined to save her people. Now the terrifying—but strangely magnetic—leader of her people has arrived to test her powers. The price of failure is exile, and only through her alliance with the Ragpicker King can she continue to access the magic that may save her.
Then Prince Conor reappears in her life, demanding that she use her healing powers to cure the madness of his father, the King. Lin soon realizes the King is gripped by an ancient and terrible magic, one whose lure she cannot deny any more than she can deny her growing passion for Conor.
Clare, who has a large following in the LGBT+ community for her Shadowhunter series, shies away from graphic gay sex, though she does include a rather graphic heterosexual encounter.
Weakly Recommended.
Three Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525620028/...
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