Tag: Magnus Bane

  • 14 Book Characters to Fall For Time after Time

    14 Book Characters to Fall For Time after Time

    Happy Valentine’s Day, dearies!

    I’ll add a couple of female leads this time because I feel like I have more to name now then other years when I did similar lists.

    So, we have a variety in 2026. And I’ll start with the girls from Shadowhunters because they are my favourite characters by far.

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    Emma Carstairs

    The Dark Artifices. Even at 12 years old she was already badass, and then came TDA trilogy and I was hooked for good.

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    Izzy Lightwood

    The Mortal Instruments. Well, from the start Izzy was my favourite and as the story progressed she only grew in my eyes.

    Tessa Gray

    The Infernal Devices. Tessa is badass when she wants to. And not just because she is the get two guys for one girl, she has power (abilities) and knows how to use it. 😄

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    Alice Cullen

    Twilight. Do I need to say more? Alice is probably one of the best characters in the whole Twilight Saga, no comparison needed.

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    Scarlet

    The Lunar Chronicles. Scarlet from TLC because she is cool 😎  and I like the book.

    Rue

    The Smoke Thief.

    I decided to create my own book fanart for Rue. This is from one of the first scenes of the book before we learnt more about her, but soon after wow, she is strong, charismatic, and witty. I like that in a lead. 🙂

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  • The Bane Chronicles: The Fall of the Hotel Dumort

    The Bane Chronicles: The Fall of the Hotel Dumort

    Or a Friday Flashback! 📚

    Hello, dearies! Welcome back to the Shadow World! 💙

    I had stopped posting about The Bane Chronicles, story by story, but here I am again, The Fall of the Hotel Dumort was next in line after Saving Raphael Santiago, and it could be said it follows: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort.

    Author: Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson

    Collection: The Bane Chronicles

    Number in Collection: 7

    Genres: Supernatural. Shadowhunters. Short Story. Vampires. Warlocks.

    Who? Well, Magnus Bane

    Shadow World

    Rating: 4 out of 5.
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  • The Lost Book of the White

    The Lost Book of the White

    Series: The Eldest Curses #2

    Authors: Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu

    Genres: Fantasy, Not so YA but some, Drama, Urban Fantasy, LGBT, Paranormal, Romance

    5 bright glowing ⭐

    Hello, dearies! 🧭

    Prepare for some fangirling of epic proportions.

    And maybe a bit of rambling too.

    The Lost Book of The White takes us forward in time or further (way further) than The Red Scrolls of Magic, which I recommend you first read City of Bones before diving into that one, although it is not necessary.

    So, I loved book 2 of The Eldest Curses, does that come across? Sometimes I don’t know if it really does. But I did, and it took me a while to write this one because… life, so my memories are a bit far away.

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  • The Red Scrolls of Magic

    The Red Scrolls of Magic

    Book 1 in The Eldest Curses Series

    Authors: Cassie Clare & Wesley Chu

    Genres: Awesome, YA, Supernatural, Shadowhunter, Magic, Fantasy, LGBTQ+, Drama, Vacation

    5 glowing ⭐

    Finally, but how I wished it would continue.

    Hello, dearies! 😍

    Because when in doubt or in a reading slump turn to the shadow world, and they will make your life better. Lighter. Heart throbbing. Beautifully well-written, better.

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  • The Bane Chronicles: Saving Raphael Santiago

    The Bane Chronicles: Saving Raphael Santiago

    Story: Saving Raphael Santiago

    Authors: Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan

    Book: The Bane Chronicles – Book #6

    Genres: Vampires, Fantasy, YA, Short Story

    Hello, dearies! 🦇

    I’m trying a new thing for Thursdays or Fridays, a sort of Throwback post or Flashback, and I thought this one would be perfect for it as The Bane Chronicles is a throwback indeed or a flashback if you must, at least for me.

    As Today is Thursday, this is the first Throwback Thursday book review, thoughts.

    Saving Raphael Santiago it’s not all that engraved in my mind, don’t ask me why because I cannot recall, but it was of the stories in The Bane Chronicles, so of course, I had to read it.

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  • The Bane Chronicles: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

    The Bane Chronicles: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

    The Bane Chronicles Book #5

    Authors: Cassandra Clare & Maureen Johnson

    Genre: Fantasy, YA, Short Stories, Paranormal, Vampires.

    Hello, dearies! 🦇

    With this one, The Rise of the Hotel Dumort, we jumped ahead in time to 1929, and not only that but New York, meaning the place where The Mortal Instruments will be lively, in the future; but we are still years away from that, and we experience the Hotel Dumort and what happened to it and their vampires. 🧛

    This is a tale we wanted to know about from the TMI series, where we read about the Hotel and the past, and Magnus, so we go there and check out the events. I know I’m not saying that much, but this story is worth reading for the first time with an unbias look, so I’ll leave it to Magnus to tell you the story.

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  • The Bane Chronicles: The Midnight Heir

    The Bane Chronicles: The Midnight Heir

    The Bane Chronicles Book 4

    Authors: Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan

    Genre: Fantasy, YA, Short Story, Magic, Urban.

    Hello, dearies! Now, this one, wow. It’s one of my favourites in this collection. 🙂

    It was supposed to be an easy one because I loved it, but thinking about the story, I remembered what it means for the rest of the shadowhunter world, and how anything I say may affect the story on the books that came after.

    Mild spoilers ahead, you’ve been warned. 🖍️

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  • The Bane Chronicles: The Runaway Queen

    The Bane Chronicles: The Runaway Queen

    The Bane Chronicles Book 2

    Authors: Cassandra Clare & Maureen Johnson

    Genres: Fantasy. YA.

    It’s not easy writing about what you have read years ago, but I do my best here. The Runaway Queen is the second story in The Bane Chronicles, the compilation about Magnus Bane life before and some after he met Alec, and from the time we read about Magnus in The Mortal Instruments, we wanted to know this kind of story since he is quite old and had many things to tells us throughout the books.

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  • Shadowhunters TV: Finale

    Shadowhunters TV: Finale

    Here we go, Angels.

    Please stop right now if you do not know a thing about the Shadow World, Shadowhunters TV or if you have not read all of the books in this series, that is: The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, The Bane Chronicles, Tales from the Shadowhunters Academy or The Dark Artifices. You have been warned, spoilers ahead.

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  • Shadowhunters TV So Far: New Characters

    Shadowhunters TV So Far: New Characters

    Hello, readers! Thank you for coming back to the site for more Shadowhunters TV, you were here for something else? Well, you are reading this now so no matter. I have not written a word about the Shadow World on Freeform for some time and mainly it is because I had not had the time to watch all the episodes, when Season 2 ended it escaped my mind to come here, and once Season 3 started I did not watch all episodes straightaway (*stupid working adult life*) but anyways, as of right now I have watched up to Episode 7 of Season 3, and could not hold back on letting some steam up here.

    Here we go, this one will be short (hopefully) so do not worry, and mainly it would be me talking (*cough* ranting) about a couple of characters, specially the new ones. You must know where this is heading if you watched Ep 6 and 7.

    Mild spoiler for those who have not watched the show so far. 

    Lilith shadowhunters Jace

    What’s New

    New Characters

    Brother Zachariah

    The moment Magnus mentioned him I stopped listening to the rest of the episode, there was nothing else but Brother Zachariah, how would they bring to life such an amazing character and then he was there and I was screaming all over the place like a fangirl. Mind you I was not watching it alone and my partner in crime, who has not read the books was looking at me like: what is it? Is just a Silent Brother.

    But all the fans of the books will know why I freaked.

    Lilith

    To the designers and make-up artists of the show: What is up with her makeup? And sometimes her choice in clothes? Not very good.

    Lilith was not entirely what we were expecting, what I was at least. She came off a bit crazier than necessary. And the way she possessed Jace? Nobody really said how come she had possessed him because he did not have all the Shadowhunter protections they are given at birth, the ceremony performed to them, they just skimmed over it, but whatever, right? No! But moving on.

    Kyle

    I was saying Jordan even before they said who he was. Oops, was that spoiler? I’m sorry I thought everyone had watched so far.

    shadowhunters kyle jordan

    Heidi (?)

    Heidi who should be Maureen, then again in the show they do what they want without looking too much into the facts from the books, and Maureen appeared only a thousand million moons ago and they did not give her the proper importance she had, so this is fine as well, I suppose. Heidi is just as crazy as Maureen eventually was, so that must count for something for the writers of the show.

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    Izzy’s Beau

    What is up with the doctor? The mundane? We all know Izzy is awesome and does not discriminate in any account but I really did not get this, is it to eventually get her to the love of her life? Who we perfectly now who he is? I did not understand this character who I am having trouble even remembering his name, sorry not sorry.

    New Relationships

    The One that surprised but also made me say: Ooh!

    Should I say it? I am going to, you probably watched all the episodes already, but Luke and Maryse, I mean they clicked straightaway with one look across the bar. Yes, we all know that this is a total lie and Luke from the books has eyes for no one but Jocelyn, who is still alive! In the books that is. But this was fine, I said: Sure, what the hell? No problem. 

    Izzy and her new one

    Dinner with this guy, who I still cannot remember his name nor am I trying to remember. Really I did not understand this at all.

    New Institute Guy

    Ugh! I spent the whole time thinking: He won’t do it, right? Alec would not do that. And he did not, thank the Angel because I would had been truly upset if something would had happened.

    Alright I am done for the moment, there is more to come, I am watching all episodes without stop now and want to catch up with the story so far. Stay tunned for more, Angels!

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    If you have watched the episodes so far, up until these ones that I mentioned, let me know and no spoiler on the comments, don’t be mean to the other readers. I hope you enjoyed and please feel free to look at the rest of the stories on the blog.

    Happy reading!