PDF The Red Scrolls of Magic The Eldest Curses Cassandra Clare Wesley Chu Books

Product details Series The Eldest Curses (Book 1) Hardcover 368 pages Publisher Margaret K. McElderry Books (April 9, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 1481495089

The Red Scrolls of Magic The Eldest Curses Cassandra Clare Wesley Chu Books Reviews

• **Minor spoilers for The Mortal Instruments and The Dark Artifices ahead.**
  
  Well kids, it’s finally happened. After a decade of wanting Alec and Magnus in the spotlight, our prayers have FINALLY BEEN ANSWERED. Malec has been my OTP from the moment I read City of Bones a decade ago (sorry Jace and Clary, I love you but…) and now they’re FINALLY getting their moment. This was the first LGBTQ+ relationship I ever read about as a teen and I can’t tell you how amazing it was to see it highlighted so spectacularly in this novel.
  
  I’m not gonna lie, it took me a hot minute to get into this book. It was SUPER weird to shift my mindset back in the shadowhunter timeline to the middle of The Mortal Instruments. Both Magnus and Alec were so unsure and hesitant with each other and it was just so odd! I’m so used to the current Malec being confident and strong in their relationship. I mean, they have two kids and just got married for god sakes. For the first several chapters, I had to remind myself of the events in City of Glass and remember they had literally JUST gotten together when this took place.
  
  HOWEVER. Once it gets going it was was easy to work out the kinks and get into the story. It was kind of like reading a little treasure hunt, picking out the things or people that eventually play a bigger part in this universe down the road. I absolutely LOVED all of the cameos and I think Raphael was my favorite. He is literally me at any and all social gatherings. Seriously, that boy is a #MOOD. And we get to see how Aline and Helen meet!!! Aline became one of my favorite lady shadowhunters during Queen of Air and Darkness and it was great seeing their relationship up close and personal.
  
  And Malec guys. Oh my god. MALEC. I can’t tell you how completely and utterly delightful it was to read about them. Soooooooooo many adorable moments.
  
  The arcs their characters AND relationship go through is awesome and I loved watching the transformation as they learned to trust one another. It’s also really interesting because this book adds a layer of complexity to their relationship that wasn’t there in the last three books of The Mortal Instruments. It all happened so quick during those novels and as devastated as I was over their break up in City of Lost Souls, they had only been dating a few months. It didn’t seem like THAT big a deal in the grand scheme of things. But after reading this, it’s obvious that they were a lot closer and more in love than I realized. Alec seemed so confident and sure of their relationship by the end of this book that it’s difficult to match it with who he becomes later on. I’m super curious to see how the next two books play out in this series.
  
  ↬ FINAL WORD
  
  This book is FREAKING ADORABLE AND YOU’LL LOVE IT!! Malec is the best and I didn’t think it was possible to love them any more, but HERE WE ARE. WOW.
• I love Alec and Magnus, especially from the books. I have waited over a year to read this book...and the story just wasn’t very good. As I’ve never been a fan of CC’s writing style but a huge fan of her storylines and characters, I had reasonable expectations. Let me say that many of the *key* early release excerpts from the book are highly altered or not there at all, and the promised “their first time” is exceedingly disappointing on many levels. If you love these characters...go watch the TV series, those writers know how to tell a love story. Thank you CC for giving us these amazing character, but I have to sadly say, fan fiction has delivered better, more satisfying stories about Alec and Magnus. I’ll read the next book, but I won’t anticipate it with the fire I did this one. Oh well.
• It was a surprisingly good story.
  
  I have read one of CC's books prior to this one and it was an anthology of Magnus, – which counts doesn't it? LOL And that was compiled with other writers. I felt familiar enough.
  
  I was apprehensive. I like the TV Series and having done the comparisons between book and show, felt and still feel the show is better.
  
  This book is about my two favorites (Magnus and Alec) and I decided I would roll with it and hope for the best. They are written well for a mystery sort of romp. At least their love for each other is showcased and that was a sweet thing. They are strong and bad ass, love it. The general story was good. I liked the mystery and the solving of the problem. It was able incorporate the characters backgrounds from previous books. I could tell it was "in the past" but that was not a detraction, it was a more lets fill in some things.
  
  Its a slow start but it gets good once the plot really gets rolling. I enjoyed it but there was too much time spend on introspection for far too many chapters. It's boring from both characters point of view. I understand the uncertainty of new romances but it was tedious. Once the story moved beyond that and the characters were actually were doing things it picked up and was entertaining. And with the story the character introspection became a better point.
  
  This is the “first time” malec (their ship name) book. There had to have been a far better “fade to black” type scene than the one described in this book. What a waste. A great job getting to the part but a horrible job executing it. It was probably one of the most unromantic things I've read in a long time. You can lead to ideology, give it spirit and yet still fade to black. All that was needed was detail – subtly. Its doable. I don't need graphic detail but give the mind a place to roam. It reminds me of the TV show when they cheated the fans and had to do a flashback to make it right. The TV show made it right.
  
  I won't wait for the next installment excitedly and its not because of the characters. It's because the writers lost me. While I'm glad there is no cliff hanger, and will read the next installment, I'm not going to care about release dates.