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darcyolsson · 7 months

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what is the best order to read the cassandra clare books in. idk what the series is called as a whole sorry

RELEASE ORDER, or at least something release order-adjacent. cassandra clare will try and tell you that they can be read in any order but that is a lie and will give you severe emotional whiplash.

tmi and tid were released simultaneously though, and i get maybe not wanting to read two book series at the same time, in which case i think it's preferable to read tid after the first 3 tmi books (since tmi is split into two triologies) or, if you want to avoid that at all, tid after tmi. you'll miss a few references in the 2nd tmi triology but it's perfectly doable, it's how i read tsc the first time around.

this leaves you with 2 main reading options (below the cut):

release order

novella collections & companion books are in italics, these can be skipped if you want to, or read at any point after the last main series that precedes it (eg the bane chronicles can be read at any point, as long as you read it after tmi and tid)

city of bones (the mortal instruments)

city of ashes

city of glass

clockwork angel (the infernal devices)

city of fallen angels

clockwork prince

city of lost souls

clockwork princess

city of heavenly fire

the bane chronicles

tales from the shadowhunter academy

lady midnight (the dark artifices)

lord of shadows

queen of air and darkness

the red scrolls of magic (the eldest curses)

ghosts of the shadow market

chain of gold (the last hours)

the lost book of the white

chain of iron

chain of thorns

"i don't want to read two book series at the same time" order:

city of bones

city of ashes

city of glass

clockwork angel

clockwork prince

clockwork princess

city of fallen angels

city of lost souls

city of heavenly fire

etc.

#yes it's twenty books. are they good perhaps not. are they enjoyable on god yes #(except tid!!!! phenomentally written one of the best ya series i've ever read!!!!!!!!!)#come join me in tsc hell.#also the series as a whole is called the shadowhunter chronicles <3 #anonymous #answered asks #tsc

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kihaku-gato · 1 year

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Eye-catchers at the Thrifts

Stuff I did not buy but that still caught my eye. Mostly fantasy books and one infobook that had a really bad online rating which made me avoid it. I am not familiar with any of these but either the title looked interesting orthe coverart gave promise;

Elvenblood

A Rumor of Dragons

The Dragon at War

The Dragon Revenant

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs- A New History of a Lost World

The Invisible Library

Seeds of Yesterday

Flowers in the Attic

If There be Thorns

Garden of Shadows

I definitely think I dodged a bullet for The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, since even just sampling some of the reading gave me the same criticisms I read in the online reviews of it. All the books in this list from the Seeds of Yesterday onwards I've only just been able to look up online at the time of this post and despite how tantalizing the book titles sound by names alone I don't think those 4 books are the right kind/genre for me tbh.

Of these eyecatchers, Elvenblood (half cause the coverart and half cause I've seen this book the thrift MULTIPLE occasions), The Dragon at War, and The Invisible Library still pique my curiosity, but not enough that I'd want to necessarily buy said books without actually getting to read them at a library first (assuming that my local library even HAS these books).

Still hoping some books from my younger days of reading eventually come up while thrift searching, like any of the Dragonriders of Pern books, Dinotopia, Jurassic Park, The Pit Dragon Triology, or among the younger age demographic The Guardians of Ga'hoole.

I'll keep scanning over the shelves whenever I visit the thrifts until I score some of the ones I'm really after. It's only a matter of time and luck.

#Thrift Eyecatches #novels #books #Thrift window shopping #fantasy books

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whenadoorsnotadoor · 1 year

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CHAIN OF THORNS SOMEHOW SPOILERS MAYBE

i finished yesterday Chain of thorns and i literally cannot believe cassie expected this book and this entire triology to be SADDER or slightly better than anything she's written before.

I was entirely bored during the whole book, rolling my eyes every five minutes at how the story evolved and the epilogue omg i cannot understand it im speechless in the worst way possible.

I truly hate feeling this way, but well, yolo. let's hope for twp and tec to come sooner before the world ends.

#chot spoilers #chain of thorns spoilers #chain of thorns #cassandra clare i love you i truly do but this is something i cannot and will not defend

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sucker-for-six-of-crows · 3 years

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Hi! I’m interested in joining the general shadow and bone/six of crows fandom but i dont know where to start. I have some questions if you have the time. what’s the relationship between shadow & bone and six of crows (prequel/sequel series or companions, etc?). Im thinking of watching the show first, would this spoil any 6 of crows things for me?

Thank you so much (i’d google but im scared of spoilers)

No problem, and welcome to the fandom!!! We’re to glad to have you!

The Grishaverse: Where Should I start?

The Grishaverse is a book/TV universe by the wonderfully talented Leigh Bardugo that includes many different series, a show, and a few companion books as well (Kind of like the Percy Jackson series in the sense that the universe is interconnected but not always related!)

The Main Book Series Include:

The Grisha Trilogy (Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, and Ruin and Rising)

The Six of Crows Duology (Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom)

The King of Scars Duology (King of Scars and Rule of Wolves)

The Companion Books/Short Stories Include:

The Language of Thorns

The Lives of Saints

The Demon in the Wood

The Tailor

The TV show:

Shadow and Bone on Netflix (Directed by Lee Toland Kriegar)

Because there’s so much content to pick and choose from, it can be difficult to figure out where the hell you gotta start, but don’t worry, I’ve got you covered!

First Up: The Grisha Trilogy + Demon in the Wood + The Tailor

The Grisha Trilogy is Bardugo’s original book series that began this whole thing. The first book, Shadow and Bone, was published in 2012 and the final book, Ruin and Rising, was published in 2014.

The Grisha Trilogy centers around Alina Starkov, a mapmaker-turned-Sun Summoner who can control light. Through trials of love and loss, Alina must do whatever it takes to close the Fold, a gigantic shadowy divide that’s ripped her country in two and is populated by horrifying monsters.

Bardugo has also written two short stories related to The Grisha Trilogy, including “Demon in the Wood,” which centers around The Darkling’s backstory, and “The Tailor,” which centers around the character Genya Safin.

This series and its plot is the primary reference for the first season of the Shadow and Bone Netflix show.

Second: The Six of Crows Duology

The Six of Crows Duology was published in 2015 and 2016 and takes place after the events of the Grisha Trilogy, although it doesn’t require prior reading of the Grisha Trilogy to understand; despite being in the same universe, the Six of Crows Duology takes place in an entirely different setting with an entirely different cast of characters.

The narrative centers around members of a gang called The Dregs: Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa, Jesper Fahey, Nina Zenik, Matthias Helvar, and Wylan Van Eck. With their combined skills and power, they attempt an earth-shattering heist into the most secure fortress in the world.

The characters of the Six of Crows Duology do appear in the first season of the Shadow and Bone Netflix show, but the plot of the duology is not touched upon/has been manipulated to run consecutively with the Grisha Trilogy. You could technically watch the show first, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

Third: The Shadow and Bone Netflix Show

The Shadow and Bone Netflix Show just had its first season released in 2021.

Although it bears the name of the first book in The Grisha Trilogy, it’s almost like a fanfiction in the sense that it combines the Six of Crows Duology and the Grisha Trilogy together into one show, despite how Six of Crows takes place AFTER the Grisha Trilogy. Obviously, such an enormous change involves some major alterations to fit things together smoothly, primarily in regards to the plot of Six of Crows.

Rather than an even combination of the two series, it’s more like putting the characters of Six of Crows into the Grisha Trilogy, and forsakes a lot of the plot of Six of Crows as a result, though I do believe they’ll delve more into that once season two comes out.

Fourth: The King of Scars Duology

The King of Scars Duology was published in 2019 and 2021 and centers around two characters in particular from The Grisha Triology, Nikolai Lantsov and Zoya Nazyalensky.

It requires prior reading of the Grisha Trilogy and the Six of Crows Duology, though I can’t reveal too much about the plot without spoiling.

Whenever You Want: The Language of Thorns and The Lives of Saints

The Lives of Saints and The Language of Thorns are lore books associated with the Grishaverse.

Both of them are preferable to read in physical form, as they include beautiful works of art and are essentially art in and of themselves.

The Lives of Saints revolves around the stories of Ravka’s various saints that they worship, while The Language of Thorns revolves around the fairy tales of various countries around Bardugo’s universe.

Good luck, and once again, welcome to the fandom!

#leigh bardugo #six of crows #the grisha trilogy #shadow and bone #shadow and bone netflix #grishaverse #the grishaverse #six of crows duology #siege and storm #ruin and rising #crooked kingdom #king of scars #soc #tgt #kos #rule of wolves #the language of thorns #the lives of saints #long post

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thebookjacket15 · 4 years

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Love to read? Here are my top picks for YA Fiction series

(not in any particular order)

1. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

2. The Halo Trilogy by Alexandra Adornetto

3. Beautiful Creatures Series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

4. Maximum Ride Series by James Patterson

5. Fallen Series by Lauren Kate

6. The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins

7. The Mortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare

8. Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan

9. Divergent Series by Veronica Roth

10. Matched Series by Ally Condie

11. The Selection by Kiera Cass

12. Red Queen Series by Victoria Aveyard

13. Throne of Glass Series by Sarah J. Maas

14. A Court of Thorns and Roses Series by Sarah J. Maas

15. Shadow and Bone Triology by Leigh Bardugo

16. Folk of the Air Series by Holly Black

17. Crave Series by Tracy Wolff

18. Cruel Beauty Series by Rosamund Hodge

19. Six of Crows Series by Leigh Bardugo

20. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

#fiction #reading #books #booktok #youngadult #fantasy #angels #faeries #divergent #magic #demons #mythology

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thegothicalice · 4 years

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What are some of your favorite dark fairy tales or fairy tale retelling that you've read?

Retellings that come to mind include;

Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter (a wild modern version of Vasilisa the Beautiful), Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (mostly Marya Morevna but other Russian fairytales too, also recommend her Orphan’s Tales books), The Winternight Triology by Katherine Arden (based on medieval Russia with reference to several fairytales), Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (loosely inspired by Rumpelstiltskin but features Eastern European folklore and Judaism), Cruel Beauty and Crimson Bound by Rosamund Hodge (Beauty and the Beast and Red Riding Hood respectively, liked the latter better but both have interesting ideas), House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig (Twelve Dancing Princesses with death, madness and gods mixed in), Hunted by Meagan Spooner (Beauty and the Beast with Russian fairytales mixed in), Beauty and Rose Daughter and Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley (two Beauty and the Beast and a Sleeping Beauty adaptations, all three are interesting but not all that dark), Spindle Fire and Winter Glass by Lexa Hillyer (Sleeping Beauty, good agency for two heroines), White as Snow by Tanith Lee (only Nobel of hers I’ve read but all of her stuff is dark and lots of fairytale retellings), The Waking Forest by Alyssa Wees (not really a specific retelling but very fairytale influenced with horror sprinkled throughout). There’s a whole adult fairytale retelling series edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling that includes Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin and Gregory Frost’s Fitcher’s Brides; I have six short story collections from that series (Snow White, Blood Red; Black Thorn, White Rose; Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears; Black Swan, White Raven; Silver Birch, Blood Moon; Black Heart, Ivory Bones). Otherwise this is my main fairytale bookcase (sorry if the titles aren’t that visible):

#go ask alice #book questions #fairytales #fairytale retellings #book recommendations

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bluberimufim · 10 months

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I love the Broken Empire series and it genuinely taught a younger me a lot about writing but sometimes the worldbuilding gives me whiplash.

Like. Excuse me. What kind of geopolitical shenaneganery did Portugal fuck up SO BAD its entire northern half got nuked out of existence???

#i understand it's the only way to create a “poisonous lands of the far west” setting #since the capital of the empire is on the other side of europe #but why #i am portuguese and i don't understand #i'm sorry mutuals but i've got the brainrot #you will be hearing about this book series in the future #probably #haven't read this series in 5 years #going for a re-read and i'm still just as confused about port gull #if i could ask mark lawrence one thing it would be this #anyway.#not writing #ramblings #broken empire series #triology of thorns

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harryhoney-bee · 3 years

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Any book recommendation?

If you want something light and nostalgic: the princess diaries and the mediator, both from Meg Cabot.

If you are into classics i really enjoyed the picture of dorian grey, little women and peter pan

If you like fantasy the triology of The Cruel Prince, and the triology of A court of thorns and roses is also nice (i got some problems with this one, because i read in portuguese, and the ones who translated it turned black characters into "golden" characters)

I also read my first contemporary romance (thanks to miss sarah) "the kiss quotient" it's soooooo gooood 🥺

And for poetry i LOVE Sappho and Mary Oliver

#books #book #book recommendations

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emsartwork · 5 years

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YO I WAS SAW YOUR OTP MEME AND I LOVE THE DEITY/FOOL ONE, CAN YOU RECOMMEND SOMETHING THAT HAS THAT BECAUSE I NEED IT

omg ok so, my deity/fool pairing

was based on Hades and Persephone(exaggerated a little but hey artistic license yo) so most versions of hades and persephone have this dynamic

Lore Olympus on Webtoons is a good one, and the A Court of Thorns and Roses series is loosely based on the myth (just get through the first book i promise this story is amazing) I haven’t read Abandon by meg cabot, or radient darkness by emily whitman but those are recommended a lot in my searches.

for others

The Darkling and Alina from the Shadow and Bone Triology kind of have this dynamic but its not a happy ship.

Rey and Kylo Ren fan fics sometimes have this dynamic but i don’t actually know that much abt them :/

Howl and Sophie in the Howl’s moving castle book by Diana Wynne Jones are similar.

Barajou no Kiss is a reverse harem manga that has a kind of similar vibe to this dynamic.

uhhhhhhhh any one else have any ideas???

#askems #anonymous #ship dynamics #book recommendations #manga recommendation #hades and persephone #persephone #info #sort of?

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ren-c-leyn · 4 years

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QnA tag game

I was tagged by @hyba to play this. Thank you very much.

rules: post your answers, and tag some pals.

1. When did you first learn you enjoyed writing?

Honestly, I used to hate writing. It wasn’t fun, it was boring school essays and annoying prompts on exams. That being said, I had always enjoyed storytelling, and had been telling stories since before I could remember.

How I reconciled that gap between the written and the spoken was I went through a really shitty period of time in my life and I took up poetry to help vent. And it was so freeing and fun that I kept with it.

I had been doing that for a while when I decided to try writing some fantasy story that popped into my head, though I can’t quite recall why I bothered to try. It wasn’t a very good story, but I filled up like an entire notebook with it and started writing it on another, and I discovered ‘hey, writing can be fun... if it isn’t about something boring.’

And over the years, fantasy has over taken poetry. I still write poems from time to time, but not like I used to.

2. Tell us about the first project you ever wrote.

It was one that tried cramming way too much into one story, but there’s elements of it that I still use a lot of. I can’t remember the exact plot I had in mind for it, because it was all over the place, but I remember there being some sci-fi, a lot of fantasy weirdness, and a chosen one who was both angry and horrified that her world ended when she had the power to save it, because no one knew what she was or that their world was in danger. It never got finished, but I had fun with it while I was working on it.

3. How does your favorite media shape who you are as a writer?

In ways I don’t even realize it did, I’m sure. Particularly since I binge read without really analyzing the writing techniques of people. My writer brain turns off and reader brain takes over. Which many people say is bad, but it works for me. That being said, I can draw some obvious parallels between things I’ve read and my own works.

I know that Tolkien was a big influence for my ‘this string pulls on this person’s string, which does that, which leads to a poor hobbit having to lose his finger to throw a cursed ring into a volcano and save the world’ kinda plots. I also enjoyed his world building, but, and this is just my opinion, it slowed the Lord of the Rings triology down a lot and made it a little clunky to read. So it taught me both what I kinda wanted to see in my world building, but also how I didn’t want it to come out in the story. Plus, The Hobbit is the book for me. It is one of the first ones I got when I finally learned ‘oh, reading can be fun’ (because child me hated reading like she also hated writing boring essays), and it’s the one that got me stuck on fantasy.

Douglas Adams, there are many who will probably consider it a crime I have not read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and yet still list his name in this, but my favorite book of all time is probably The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, and it was the way the characters existed and the hidden easter eggs that I’m still finding like 7 read throughs later and the pacing and red herrings. I learned from and loved a lot about that book alone.

There was also J.A. Jance, the author of many of the murder mysteries my grandmother loaned me, and it was from her and other mystery authors that I finally, finally figured out how to set up suspense and tension. They were also really good studies in character motivations and how a character’s mindset can change the way they perceive the world and the things they notice and miss.

Video games is another thing I know has influenced me. I like story and lore rich games. Dungeons and Dragons is another thing I play a lot of and has followed me through my writings. The stories that get told can be every bit as awesome as a book, and the mechanics are also part of what helped me learn to structure my magic systems. Because if the wizards didn’t have rules, who would play a fighter who does? The same idea got translated into my writing very early on, ‘if I don’t give my wizards rules, why would warriors exist?’

And I can keep rambling, but I think I’ll leave it at this for now ^^

4. What’s something you’ve wanted to write, but aren’t sure you could? (A tv show, a genre, a style, a time period, a video game, etc)

I had an idea for a fantasy world inspired by various Asian myths, and even had a basic map drawn out in my head and some ideas for a magic system, but I’ve been too terrified to actually do anything with it, and it’s been so long since then that I don’t remember anything about it. Plus, I had no plot to use for it at the time.

I also wanted to write a mystery, but when I tried I found that while I has suspects and everything, I couldn’t think of the crime or how the heck anyone would just kinda figure it out from a bunch of random things normal people could just play off or not notice XD

5. What is the thing that keeps you from writing the most?

Procrastination is sometimes a problem, and I do occasionally need to kick myself in the shin. But there’s also life and plot snags and just days when a story isn’t working for me.

6. How do you deal with an inner editor?

That depends. Sometimes the inner editor saves me a lot of headaches later, and sometimes a tiny mistake can break the flow of writing. I normally don’t have an issue with fixing things on the spot, but on nights I need to focus on writing I just keep myself from reading back.

7. How long have you been writing?

I mean, they make kids write really young for school, so begrudgingly that long. Creatively and for fun? I’m not sure. I can’t quite recall how old I was when I started with the poetry. But considering the notebook I have the earliest pieces in is falling apart, I think it’s been a long time. lol

8. What is your general writing process? Do you write chronologically? Do you do a lot of planning?

I normally get this idea that shows up out of the blue as a daydream or a random thought. Then, there’s at least a month. If it’s still there, it gets considered. If it’s grown and expanded into something resembling either a world or a plot by then, it’s probably getting written.

After the idea finally bugs me enough, I’ll start world building and building a bare-bones plot, complete with bare-boned characters. I never flesh anything out completely, since I do most of that while I write and having strict outlines suffocates my story.

If the world building, characters, and whatever I have of a plot are interesting, I’ll start chronologically and keep moving from there.

9. Assign a scent to your writing style.

A scent for my style? Um... that’s kind of a weird question and I have no idea how I would even begin to think of an answer for that. Like, how do you translate comma usage and word choice into a smell? I mean, I use roses a lot in my stories, so maybe that would work?

10. One book you hope everyone reads?

I have to agree with hyba that I hope everyone just finds their version of the book. The one that gets them through a hard time, the one they really need, and that that book won’t be the same for everyone.

11. What is it about your least favorite genre that makes it your least favorite–and how might you change that to better appeal to you?

Oh that’s simple, it’s because horror does it’s job. That’s it. It’s nothing particularly about the style or anything besides that the genre is what it is.

12. Design a “collector’s edition” for your first novel. Include items that might be of interest to your audience.

Never thought about it, but I guess I could throw in the world map I drew for The Plight of a Sparrow into it.

13. If one thing was real from your project, what would you want it to be?

Nothing in particular? I can’t think of anything that would make sense to transfer from my projects to the real world, because I don’t want magic to be real, because my magic systems tend to be brutal, but also, we have stuff like or better than a lot of what doesn’t run off magic. Maybe some of the creatures would be cool, but I don’t know how that would affect ecosystems.... probably not for the better.

14. What’s something you always include in your work? Do you have any other Easter eggs?

As far as easter eggs, I can’t think of anything off the top of my head. If I do, it probably wasn’t intentional.

15. What is your favorite passage from your own work?

I still am not really comfortable with sharing things out of my WIPs on here. As far as things I’ve written for the blog itself go, there are quite a few pieces and passages that turned out really good. I think one of my favorites is from a really old piece I did back before I was doing fusion stories. It’s from this one specifically, if anyone would like to read the full tale, it is a grim one, though.

The very edge of the forest was about as welcoming as a gallows. Crows watched us hungrily, like we were dead men about to sway. None of them made so much as a peep as their dead eyes followed our trek through the knotted mess of brambles, ivy, knotted shrubs, and gnarled trees. We hacked at the plants, and they hacked right back at us. We traded blows like it was a war. hatchet and sword blows countered with sharp thorns and parried with thick branches.

I’m going to leave this an open tag, jump in if you’d like to. =D

#tag game

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