Sword Catcher

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Romance is minimal. The way it's being marketed one would think there is enough romance in it but NOOO. If you have read A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab, this might not interest you much, and if you also love that book (series), you might even end up dnf-ing this one due to all the similarities you might find. The story itself started out strong, and I found myself wanting to continue reading for the first half of it. It felt like things were always just about to really take off, but then…it never did. Something would happen and I would say “Ok, here we go” and then, well, it didn’t go, so I just kept waiting and waiting. I felt like I waited the entire book for the story to really take off, and then the book was over and I was still waiting. Cassie's strength is usually her characters. In the Shadowhunter books, she almost always made me care about all the characters and it was less the situation here. Kel and Conor are good characters. Lin is even better, and it was nice to see a female doctor in a fantasy setting which was refreshing. However, the rest of the characters were not as exciting. The book really has two plots running parallel to one another with occasional moments of intersection. Kel/Conor are purely wrapped up in the events happening at the Court. It's where a lot of the city buidling is going on, it's meant to be a political intrigue situation. Conor seemingly is going to need to marry for an alliance in the very near future and there are some things that could get in the way of that.

Nothing of substance really happens. It's clear that this book is setting up for something big but at the same time, something needs to happen in this one too. Wtf how do you expect me to continue this series when it's just about characters going to random places for nothing? spoilers will only be *between red exclamation marks* I'm only sharing this to help you (as someone who doesn't mind spoilers) decide whether you'd like to continue reading this book even after all the similarities between both the books end: After college, Cassie lived in Los Angeles and New York where she worked at various entertainment magazines and even some rather suspect tabloids where she reported on Brad and Angelina’s world travels and Britney Spears’ wardrobe malfunctions. She started working on her YA novel, City of Bones, in 2004, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan, her favourite city. She turned to writing fantasy fiction full time in 2006 and hopes never to have to write about Paris Hilton again.He had not known what it meant to be needed by someone else: that it made you want to protect them. To his own surprise, he wanted to protect this boy, the Prince of Castellane. all things similar between ADSOM and SC that i couldn't stop thinking about, and that annoyed me [ spoilers for both the books ]❗️

I can’t say the pacing of this book was off because there wasn’t much to pace. There wasn’t much going on to really move the plot forward. Halfway through the book, I started feeling like I wanted things to wrap up so I could finish reading, which isn’t a fun way to feel while reading a book, especially one I was so excited about! Our other pov character is Lin, shunned in the city and kept behind walls for being an Ashkar and looked down upon in her society for wanting to become a physician as a girl. I could not write this review without mentioning how brilliantly detailed Clare has written out this world. Her depictions of various settings, from the courtyards to the ballrooms to the street markets is truly brilliant – you can almost see, smell and taste Castellane. My personal favourite descriptions have to be the ones of Conor’s attire, which were never short of spectacular at all times!I considered doing that too, (esp. because the writing wasn't much fun) but after 27% or so into the book, things changed, became interesting and stopped irritating me. DISCOVER THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES FROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SHADOWHUNTER CHRONICLES! Whilst this doesn’t rank as high as Clare’s other books for me, this feels like an exciting debut into her new era of writing and her future! Bestselling YA author Cassandra Clare spends a large amount of Sword Catcher, the first book in a fantasy trilogy and her first work for adults, building out the city-state of Castellane while Kel and Lin shed their naivete and expand their worldviews. Kel begins to see that Castellane has secrets which even he is not privy to. And Lin, having fought to be the only female physician among the Ashkari, discovers a stone of secret, magical history that could be the key to curing her terminally ill friend. Throughout the story, Kel and Lin’s paths rarely cross; their stories run parallel but for a few chance twists of fate. The characters were all one dimensional. I could not understand them at all. Their motives were pretty clear in the beginning but it soon tried to develop into something more and eventually got all messed up.