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Bitter of Tongue (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #7)
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bookshelves: 2015, did-it-because-series, magic-werewovles-supernatural-stuff, male-lead, novella, reviewed, three-star, has-a-movie-or-tv-series
Oct 19, 2015
bookshelves: 2015, did-it-because-series, magic-werewovles-supernatural-stuff, male-lead, novella, reviewed, three-star, has-a-movie-or-tv-series
I think I'm being generous because literally anything would feel like salvation in comparison to what I've read lately.
I think of all the 'Shadowhunter Academy' novellas so far this one felt like it belonged in the premise of this series. All the other's have been either a story about Herondales or stories within stories about other characters.
I mean it's still an obvious commercial for the upcoming series. And while Simon's sentiments on the treatment of faeries are appreciated it still feels a bit hollow when the person he is talking about is Mark Blackthorn.
I mean seriously can't we portray a good guy fairy who isn't also part Shadowhunter?
Anyway, the plot here is Simon gets captured by faeries during a mission. Turns out one of the faeries there is Mark Blackthorn.
Mark babbles like a drunken Mad Hatter to Simon for a bit to garner sympathy for his plight. (Gotta sell that upcoming series you know.) He aids in Simon's escape and Simon goes with Isabelle to a wedding.
Aline and Helen's wedding. And I'm really just 'meh' about this whole wedding. Like yay a wedding of a same-sex couple that you didn't bother developing at all. Really, other than being told that the two of them love each other so much I know dick all about these girls.
All and all it's just more fishing to attempt to get us interested in the Blackthorn family, so that we'll read the Dark Artifices. But I'll concede that it wasn't the worst one of the bunch. While it might not exactly deserve three stars, I also didn't want to place it on the same level as the other ones I gave two stars to.
I kind of don't want to stick it on the same level as the ones I gave three stars to either, but it is what it is. This one completed my reading challenge for the year for me, so that makes me happy and I'll just leave the rating where it is.
I think of all the 'Shadowhunter Academy' novellas so far this one felt like it belonged in the premise of this series. All the other's have been either a story about Herondales or stories within stories about other characters.
I mean it's still an obvious commercial for the upcoming series. And while Simon's sentiments on the treatment of faeries are appreciated it still feels a bit hollow when the person he is talking about is Mark Blackthorn.
I mean seriously can't we portray a good guy fairy who isn't also part Shadowhunter?
Anyway, the plot here is Simon gets captured by faeries during a mission. Turns out one of the faeries there is Mark Blackthorn.
Mark babbles like a drunken Mad Hatter to Simon for a bit to garner sympathy for his plight. (Gotta sell that upcoming series you know.) He aids in Simon's escape and Simon goes with Isabelle to a wedding.
Aline and Helen's wedding. And I'm really just 'meh' about this whole wedding. Like yay a wedding of a same-sex couple that you didn't bother developing at all. Really, other than being told that the two of them love each other so much I know dick all about these girls.
All and all it's just more fishing to attempt to get us interested in the Blackthorn family, so that we'll read the Dark Artifices. But I'll concede that it wasn't the worst one of the bunch. While it might not exactly deserve three stars, I also didn't want to place it on the same level as the other ones I gave two stars to.
I kind of don't want to stick it on the same level as the ones I gave three stars to either, but it is what it is. This one completed my reading challenge for the year for me, so that makes me happy and I'll just leave the rating where it is.
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Reading Progress
October 19, 2015
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November 3, 2015
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November 3, 2015
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November 3, 2015
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"Starting to think that 'World of Warcraft' is the only nerdy computer game the author is aware of."
November 3, 2015
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22.0%
""Shadowhunters, vampires, and now faeries, all longing to throw me in prison." Simon said aloud. "Why exactly was I so anxious to get back all these memories? Why is it always me? Why am I always the chump in the cage?"
Because you're the series butt monkey."
Because you're the series butt monkey."
November 3, 2015
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68.0%
"And Shadowhunters had not actually built it into their precious Law that Shadowhunters could not marry someone of the same sex.
I mean there was a stigma once and implications that it was a huge no no but we've retconned all that so it's cool."
I mean there was a stigma once and implications that it was a huge no no but we've retconned all that so it's cool."
November 3, 2015
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100.0%
November 3, 2015
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Finished Reading
