When it comes to Magnus and Alec, Cassandra Clare rarely disappoints. When I started reading City of Bones, I never expected to fall in love with those two characters so much, but I honestly think they might be two of my favorite characters of the Shadowhunter Chronicles, if not my favorite characters in general.
We have seen then grow on paper into the two mature, loving men that adopted a child together and want to spend a lifetime loving each other and I am kind of in adoration with that.
The Eldest Curse Series is probably one of my favorite series of Cassandra Clara, it’s more mature than her other series and you can read how much she had grown as a writer and how much the characters have grown. We get to see TMI Crew in the past again. We get to see them as grown adults in The Dark Artifices, but in The Lost Book of White, we got the last stretch of them growing up, the very last length of their childhood.
Kind of like Jace said: “When did we become the Clave?” This is their last adventure before most of the crew accepts their place in the adult world. It feels like the last piece in the puzzle that we didn’t know was missing from the timeline
For me the most important message in the Eldest Curse series is that forgiveness, kindness and mercy are important and difficult to give, and sometimes giving them doesn’t mean you will be treated with the same respect or that they will be accepted.
The Eldest Curse is more about the Demon World than the past series other than The Last Hour, and it goes deeper into how bad the world can be. We get to see how corrupt the ShadowWorld can be, how unjust it is, how important a Shadowhunter’s job is, and how dangerous. We knew before but now in a much more mature book, we are confronted with it.
The Lost Book of White is the last book in the modern Shadowhunter Chronicles timeline before the Wicked Power, we know everything we are going to know about what happened before the next series and that is a bummer. It means we have to wait a couple of years still before seeing our favorite characters again and by the time we do see them, they will be fully grown adults, at least most of them. The next time we see them they will be completely different people.
I love The Lost Book of White and await with impatience what comes next in The Eldest Curse Series.
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