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C8's Takes: The Bane Chronicles

  • C8
  • Jun 8, 2020
  • 2 min read

Pretty great at parts, pretty slow at others.


'The Bane Chronicles' are a collection of novellas from one of the side characters of (mainly) The Mortal Instruments series, Magnus Bane. He's pretty funny and has quite the back story. I am less impressed with the story itself than I am with the depth and understanding that Cassandra Clare has with her characters. Genuinely extremely impressive that she is able to write 400 pages on a side character.


I definitely understand why they are novellas because a lot of them just weren't very exciting and it was obvious why they didn't make the cut for any of the main books. That is why I say some parts were really slow. I definitely wouldn't say that it is required reading to understand the Shadowhunter Chronicles.


I really enjoyed that novellas where we got to learn more about characters we'd already met before, like Tessa and Will. I thought the part with Clary was pretty dope as well, and obviously the stories from France were dope. I like how she incorporated a little spin on historical fiction. It was very funny!


All in all, I am very indifferent. I skimmed a lot because at a certain point I just stopped caring about where this man's life was going. The ending really confused me, but that might have just been because I wasn't really in it to win it, ya know? I gave 3/5 stars on GoodReads because, like I said, it had its moments and those moments were great, but the rest were unimpressive. I did enjoy the book as a whole though, and of course it was very VERY well written, but we knew that was going to be the case with any of this author's works!



 
 
 

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