This one was good but not quite as good as the one I read before it. I did love getting to see more of Tess and Clary's mother. I did love getting to see more of Valetine's Circle in action -- both those who knew what they were doing and delighted in it, and those were disgusted with realizing just exactly what they'd fallen in to.

I like the idea Tess was the one to decide about Clary, but I also feel like that is major revisionist history at work, when it was never part of the original Magnus telling. And I'm also a little sad it didn't go any further past the point it ended at a little too safely. ( )

2.5 stars.
This novella was so Boring that I found myself not showing interest in what happened. ( )

Cassandra Clare is an author whose books I do not exactly enjoy but who I cannot seem to stop reading. Everything about her stories, characters, and writing style should appeal to me and yet something about it just doesn't work. I have tried them as physical books, e-books, and audios and they don't really hold my interest but still I soldier on hoping I will enjoy them... ( )

a novella about someone's past?!! right, Clary's past, in Magnus's series. the more things change etc etc ( )

Okay this one actually did make me cry... one of the best backstories I didn't know I needed.

COFFEE SHOP JAZZ AMBIENCE ROOM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0_ejQQcrwI&t=10474s

1. What Really Happened in Peru - ★★★☆☆
2. The Runaway Queen - ★★☆☆☆
3. Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale - ★★★★★
4. The Midnight Heir - ★★★★★
5. The Rise of the Hotel Dumort - ★★☆☆☆
6. Saving Raphael Santiago - ★★★★☆
7. The Fall of the Hotel Dumort - ★★★★☆
8. What To Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything - ★★★★☆
9. The Last Stand of the New York Institute - ★★★★★
10. The Course of True Love [and First Dates] - ★★★★★
11. The Voicemail of Magnus Bane - ★★★☆☆

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