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

Book 4 of My Summer Reading Challenge

My rating: 3/5 stars

As Magnus was my favourite character from The Mortal Instruments series, I think that It is safe to say that I was expecting great things from this collection of short stories which revolved around Magnus's life before and during the time in which The Mortal Instruments was set.

 



However, this book did not meet the high expectations which I had and I was left feeling very disappointed. It got to a point, where this book was a chore to read and I only put up with it due to the fact that I was on holiday and was the only book that I had with me that I had not read.

The reason that this book has 3 stars and not any less is because there was a few good points about this book, especially What Really Happened In Peru which I did find hilarious and my parents got annoyed with me as I sat there giggling at the events which were taking place.
I also enjoyed the stories with Alec in as I have always loved this couple and it was fun to see how that managed to get through their first date in The Course of True Love which was never talked about in TMI.

Overall, this was most likely another way for Clare to extend the Shadowhunter books and I would only recommend reading these if you are an absolute fan of the work by Clare. Otherwise this is most likely just a waste of your time. In my case, I will probably read all of the short stories which are being released on kindle at the moment when they are put into a book version just so that I have all of the shadowhunter books on my shelves. Otherwise, this is a no-go.