abi reviewed The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare
Review of 'The Bane Chronicles' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I love Magnus, I really really love him, but this book is not a good time for his character. I read it, and it comes across as if his motivation for most of his antics and adventures in this book, is if someone attractive asks him to do something. It's tiring, and I hate that he's essentially being oversexualised because, oh yeah, he's bisexual (which cc loves to remind you of in her blatantly heteronormative way).
This is not the character that I fell in love with whilst writing TMI, and it says something that for her major Magnus writings, she has to employ cowriters to help her.
Magnus deserves better than his dialogue and scenes in this book. Gets 3 stars simply because the malec stuff was cute and I really liked the story with the drug addicted vampires and the Raphael story.
I love Magnus, I really really love him, but this book is not a good time for his character. I read it, and it comes across as if his motivation for most of his antics and adventures in this book, is if someone attractive asks him to do something. It's tiring, and I hate that he's essentially being oversexualised because, oh yeah, he's bisexual (which cc loves to remind you of in her blatantly heteronormative way).
This is not the character that I fell in love with whilst writing TMI, and it says something that for her major Magnus writings, she has to employ cowriters to help her.
Magnus deserves better than his dialogue and scenes in this book. Gets 3 stars simply because the malec stuff was cute and I really liked the story with the drug addicted vampires and the Raphael story.
