The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson

Fans of The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices can get to know warlock Magnus Bane like never before in this collection of New York Times bestselling tales, in print for the first time with an exclusive new story and illustrated material. This collection of eleven short stories illuminates the life of the enigmatic Magnus Bane, whose alluring personality, flamboyant style, and sharp wit populate the pages of the #1 New York Times bestselling series, The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices. Originally released one-by-one as e-only short stories by Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson, and Sarah Rees Brennan, this compilation presents all ten together in print for the first time and includes a never-before-seen eleventh tale, as well as new illustrated material.

Hey everyone, its Sarah and I'm back with another book review. Today's review is on The Bane Chronicles, which is a collection of short stories written by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson.

The Bane Chronicles is a companion series to Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments series and The Infernal Devices series starring the character Magnus Bane who is sparkly and flamboyant warlock. Each story is set in a different period during Magnus’ life and features character from the Shadowhunter world.

These short stories are all different and I felt differently after reading each one. I loved some; I liked others and the rest I didn’t like. While I have mixed feelings over the collection itself, it certainty does have the amazing things of the Shadowhunter world that we all love so much. Cassandra Clare has done it again but writing some fantastic short stories about one of our most beloved characters but in some places it just doesn’t feel write. As I stated before, Cassandra, didn’t write these books alone, she had the help of Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson and I think since these two have their own style of writing, you could feel that it wasn’t just Cassandra writing these books, it lost some of its Cassandraness.

The writing itself was well done, the pace was a bit slow in some stories as they are mostly background to what has happened to Magnus Bane in his life, but others were a bit faster. Some of the writing did push me out of the story, with certain sentences having some strange structure and the imagery not giving me a great image, but this book wasn’t a hard read. While it is frustrating when you get lost in a book due to poor writing, it isn’t poor writing that is the problem, the writing is good and gives the feel of the Shadowhunter world, but when I was knocked out I found it hard to get back in.

The stories themselves range from a different collection of ideas that show Magnus Bane in very different ways, how he interacts with certain people and deals with certain situations, you get a deeper understanding to our beloved character and see him in a new way. This is fantastic as well all wanted to know more about the amazing warlock.

While there were some things I weren’t sure of I would say get this collection if you are a fan of The Mortal Instruments series and The Infernal Devices series, and if you are a fan of Magnus Bane. I am glad I got the chance to read it.

But that’s all for now.

I’ll write you soon.

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