Esra Eryaman Eryaman থেকে নিউ ইয়র্ক থেকে নিউ ইয়র্ক

Cassandra Clare managed to surprise me with this one. I'd resolved to read this mainly because I'm a completionist, but I expected another tediously predictable read. About half way through, Clare blew me away by allowing her fun-but-stereotypical-YA-fantasy-heroine to do something that (a) I hadn't anticipated nearly 100 pages before and that (b) represented genuine character development, rather than sudden out-of-character behavior for the sake of the plot. From that point on, her writing managed to draw me far enough into the novel to drown out the voice of the internal critic that had distracted me throughout the first two novels. It helped that the plot stops echoing other stories quite so much, and becomes intriguingly original. I still like Clare's fanfiction better. Pity. But I'll still track down her next book. She's got potential - and despite the Meyer quote on the front cover of this book, at least this series was a million times better than Twilight.