Hello all! Happy new year! I know I never finished my Christmas Countdown reviews in time for Christmas but I'm going to finish them now, as well as catching up on my 12 days of Christmas reviews (By my reckoning it's about the 7th day of Christmas so I have some definite catching up to do)
Christmas countdown review number 17, the Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare!
I did actually finish this in time for the 17th of December but I got really busy and never got around to writing the review.
The Bane Chronicles is a series of stories about everyone's favourite High Warlock of Brooklyn, the one, the only, the fabulous, Magnus Bane. It covers his journey through time from his birth as an immortal warlock to the earth
(and heart) shattering events of page 511 of City of Lost Souls
(this page never happened I don't know what you're on about, nope, never happened...not at all...never, not once...) Journey through time with Magnus, find out why he was banned from Peru, meet Edmund and James Herondale, have tea and cake with Marie Antoinette, meet Ragnor Fell and Catarina Loss in Peru for a spot of piracy (ish). See the aftermath of page 511, see the Accords almost fall to pieces (Shadowhunters are very stupid let's leave it at that), all this and more await you in the pages of the Bane Chronicles,
This book was amazing. I mean, I like anything by Cassandra Clare so I might be a tad biased
(not at all, nope, not one bit) but it is amazingly well written and each story is captivating and exciting. If you like a spot of adventure and a hint of glitter the Bane Chronicles is definitely for you. It might make more sense to read the Mortal instruments series and the Infernal devices series first though. Just so you have a basic handle on the plot and characters. They are side stories after all.
10/10 would read again, and again, and again. The High Warlock of Brooklyn bids you good day, he's a very busy warlock you know.
