Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy, Cassandra
Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan
Pages:
96
Publisher:
Walker
Release
Date: 17th
February 2015
Series:
Tales of
Shadowhunter Academy #1
Synopsis
After living as a Mundane and a
Vampire, Simon never thought he would become a Shadowhunter, but today he
begins his training at Shadowhunter Academy.
Review
After Simon’s heartbreaking fate
at the end of City of Heavenly Fire, it
was a horrible thought that we wouldn’t get to see him acclimatising to life
without his memories so this series was a very exciting announcement!
Within only a day of arriving at
the crumbling, mouldy, almost ruins of the Shadowhunter Academy, Simon is a
hero. He is fawned over in a way that’d make Jace proud for his part in the
war, a time he doesn’t even remember, and it’s a little overwhelming. Through
in the shocking prejudices between Shadowhunters and the Downworlders and
mundanes and the intense physical training of the academy and Simon is a little
out of his depth.
This is such a different side to
the Shadowhunter world than we’ve seen before and I love it.
The Lost Herondale,
Cassandra Clare and Robin Wasserman
Pages: 96
Publisher: Walker
Release Date: 17th March 2015
Series: Tales of Shadowhunter Academy #2
Synopsis
In the
early nineteenth century, Tobias Herondale abandoned his fellow Shadowhunters
in the heat of battle and left them to die. His life was forfeit, but Tobias
never returned, and the Clave claimed his wife’s life in exchange for Tobias’s.
Simon and his fellow students are shocked to learn of this brutality,
especially when it is revealed the woman was pregnant. But what if the child
survived…could there be a lost Herondale line out in the world today?
Review
As Simon
starts to settle into life at the Academy, he starts to learn some rather
disturbing truths about the Clave and the infamous severity of the law – “The
law is hard, but it is the law”. The horrific story of Tobias Herondale and the
Clave’s refusal to see any other side of the story is disturbing and really
throws Simon. He’s a mundane and he’s been a Downworlder; can he ever truly be
a Shadowhunter?
But one
of the things I really love about Clare builds her world is by taking events in
our the mundane world and involving the Shadowhunters. This time, a time of
uncivilised chaos in Downworlder history is said to be familiar to mundanes as
the stories of the Brothers Grimm – very, very cool.
The Whitechapel Fiend, Cassandra
Clare and Maureen Johnson
Pages:
96
Publisher:
Walker
Release
Date: 21st
April 2015
Series:
Tales of
Shadowhunter Academy #3
Synopsis
Simon learns the truth behind the
Jack the Ripper murders – “Jack” was stopped by Will Herondale and his
Institute of Victoria Shadowhunters!
Review
Then Clare upped it again. It turns
out that the murderer plaguing 1880s London was defeated by Will, Tessa,
Gabriel and Cecily! So not only did Simon get a lesson is jumping from trees
from Jace, he also got the pleasure of a history lesson from Tessa Gray. It was
so good to see her again! She took us back to 1888 and the last three murders
of Jack the Ripper. As well as the investigations they undertook into the
crimes, we also got a glimpse of life for Tessa and Will running the London
Institute with Gabriel and Cecily and a few visits from Brother Zachariah/Jem. Fyi,
they’re all still perfect.
I really loved the spin that
Clare and Johnson put on the solving of the murders and the identity of Jack. To
be quite honest, it explains everything perfectly and I don’t know why that
hasn’t been considered before! By far my favourite so far – it’s also hilarious
because there’s a lovely dose of Jace in The
Whitechapel Fiend!
Bring on instalment number four!
Sophie
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