Review: Welcome to the Shadowhunter Academy

Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy by Cassandra Clare
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

DNF at 40%

To be fair, I can’t say I started this story with the best disposition. Not only do I dislike Simon Lewis, I also disliked that the end of his COHF ac was deemed a ‘sacrifice’ when he never liked what he let go of in the first place and the memory thing was erased almost immediately without any explanation whatsoever.
Still, I figured I might as well give this a try.

What I found was… well, not surprising, exactly. I don’t know why I keep expecting things to get better in this series–I guess I thought CC would end up getting a smidge better even if it was by accident. So far, it’s not the case.

Anyway, the entire layout of the Academy doesn’t make sense in the first place, even if you forget the pre-established high rate of mortality among mundanes-turned-shadowhunters (by which standard you would turn said mundanes first and train them after you’re sure they’ll survive the runes).

Shadowhunters desperately need new recruits but they treat them like shit in shitty building no one could be arsed to repair even a little bit.

George is the newcomer in a long line of antipathic characters (shitting all over his family because they wanted out of a life of killing while implying he’s braver than them in the process. And as for Julie, she’s a native Shadowhunter but her first reflex in the face of 'danger’ is to cower and whine? Please.

All that without even going into how Simon supposedly struggles remembering stuff from his life with Shadowhunters & Clary, but he remembers the Shadowhunters family trees?

Honestly, the last straw was George going 'I can say [Lovelace, his family name] because I’m secure in my masculinity’, because honestly.