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This is one of my favorite series and I have read all 5 books at least 3 times each.This series has everything I love in a fantasy novel:Action,Adventure,Passion,Romance,Great Writing,Funny Lines,and Great Characters(hero and villain both).The world Cassandra Clare has created is magical and rich with danger lurking behind every corner.This book is told in the 3rd person and gives it so much more depth then if it had been told in the first person.I felt like I was there with the characters be it
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I just started reading this series a week ago and I'm churning through them but I'm no expert.
No they're not all that well written, I oft found myself skipping whole paragraphs of long winded descriptions. But I found the characters engaging. There seems to be a lot of criticism surrounding Clare's characters and how she supposedly stole them from other books.
How original are any literary characters? Most forms of creativity are extremely derivative. Are familiar archetypal characters not some ...more
No they're not all that well written, I oft found myself skipping whole paragraphs of long winded descriptions. But I found the characters engaging. There seems to be a lot of criticism surrounding Clare's characters and how she supposedly stole them from other books.
How original are any literary characters? Most forms of creativity are extremely derivative. Are familiar archetypal characters not some ...more
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