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The Judgement of King Kieran: 4 stars

Mystery was interesting, I love the Seelie Court setting and all the types of fey, and these characters are some of my favorites from all of TSC.

No photo of Livvy? 🤨

Zachary’s Day Out: 3.5 stars

This was fun, but I’m not super invested in Thomas as a character. I liked the story though.

KIERARKTINA NEXT YAY my favs have come back to me.

“What was happening? He wondered if anyone would mind if he started screaming like the babies were. Very sensible of them, really.”

Who the Wolf Loves: 4 stars

Lowering the previous one to 3.5 because this was better. I’m very pleasantly surprised, I did not think I’d care about Luke x Jocelyn but honestly I see Luke in a new light. Also I’d completely forgotten about the Circle lore, why did I have no recollection of him being Valentine’s parabatai.

“You told me of a relative, a past Fairchild, who’d had a flat there.”

Matthew… the interconnections are one of the best parts of Shadowhunter books.

Kinda nervous the next one’s gonna be boring, I have zero investment in Jocelyn x Luke and apparently it’s a letter and not even a story.

The Beautiful Ajatara: 4 stars
This was honestly pretty fun and veryy meta- at some points it felt like Clare was speaking directly to readers, especially those who complained about certain character deaths (including me). It was more Lucie focused than Herondaisy? But Lucie/Jesse don’t have a story in this so oh well.

Actually another thing? Will is not stupid, even though he likes to act like it. As if he would wake up without half of his memories and be like lol I must’ve done that on purpose 🤷🏻‍♂️

Also random but somehow I don’t remember Ragnor Fell in TID? Or maybe I just associate him with TMI because the scene where Raphael is texting him is the most tragic scene in all of literature.

The Good Storm: 2.5 stars
Wessa my loves you have been done so dirty by your story 🥲 After Jem left Tessa was like “ok I’ll just try to make him really happy so he’ll want to get his memories back.” YOUR HUSBAND AKA the WILL HERONDALE HAS NO IDEA WHO YOU ARE where’s the devastation?!
Anyway 😔 Jordelia story up next.