Schöne Ergänzung zum Charakter Magnus Bane mit Erklärungen zu einigen Abschnitten seines Lebens. Für Begeisterte von Clares Büchern auf jeden Fall zu empfehlen! Auch wenn nicht alle Kurzgeschichten für mich ein Highlight waren, waren sie doch gut und schnell zu lesen und haben dabei Spaß gemacht.

"When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works.” I immensely enjoyed getting to know Magnus better throughout his lifetime. The distinct change in his character from the earlier stories where he was younger and more carefree to the later stories where he is older, wiser and more mature is fascinating. Also the different stories blended together really well, making the read feel seemless even though there are huge jumps in time. Magnus is so chaotically and unapologetically himself that it's impossible to imagine he has any hardships. He lives in a world practically of his own creation. He sees the ugly and then proceeds to shatter it with glamour, glitter, kindness, wisdom and love. Magnus is my favourite character from the books that I've read so far. He is the bisexual and asian warlock of dreams and I was so excited when I saw there is a novella about his life.

I cannot begin to explain how disappointed I was in this series. While I liked the idea of a compilation of separate stories to get background info on several stages of Magnus' life, there were only a few chapters which actually provided some insight. So while I will recommend [b:Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale|17334077|Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale (The Bane Chronicles, #3)|Cassandra Clare|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1370959301s/17334077.jpg|23753602] to readers of the Infernal Devices (for obvious reasons), and [b:Saving Raphael Santiago|17334063|Saving Raphael Santiago (The Bane Chronicles, #6)|Cassandra Clare|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1378834519s/17334063.jpg|23753642] in general (as it provides lovely background info), the only other chapter that had the vibe of The Mortal Instruments was [b:The Midnight Heir|17334074|The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, #4)|Cassandra Clare|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1376078133s/17334074.jpg|23753611]. If you're not someone who's obsessed with every little detail of Magnus' very long life, save yourself some time and only read those three chapters.

I don't know why but every time I read Cassandra Clare's short stories I can relate so much more to the Lightwoods and other side characters. Of course ma favorite part was everything with Herondales, most of all The Midnight Heir!!! I can't wait for the Last Hours to get more of Jamie!!! Edmund was so different than I imagined him to be and most of all I loved Linette, she could definitely kick some ass hahah My least favorite parts were the first stories "What Really Happened in Peru" and "The Runaway Queen". Apart from the Herondales I really loved the Malec Scenes and also the throw back to the young Circle or Jocelyn coming to Magnus and Tessa for help! If you love the Shadowhunter World you should pick this up, it gives you such a great insight into things that are not included in the regular plot and many characters who deserve it get more attention!

Overall Rating: 4⭐️ (3.9⭐️) In the beginning, I wasn’t really vibing with the short story collection. Most of the first half was a bit meh, but luckily, I loved the second half. I also enjoyed the single graphic novel/illustrated page at the beginning of each story. I think it is obvious that this was written by more authors than just Cassandra Clare. You obviously don’t need to read this book to understand the story, but I am a big fan of Magnus Bane and really had a good time with almost every story. 1. What Really Happened in Peru: 3.5 ⭐️ there wasn’t a lot of stuff going on, but I loved the beautiful descriptions of Peru and now I really want to go there! 2. The Runaway Queen: 3 ⭐️ Magnus Bane and Marie Antoinette, a combination I never thought about and didn’t really need. 3. Vampires, Scones and Edmund Herondale: 3.5 ⭐️ I usually love a Herondale guy, but I was expecting a bit more of this story. 4. The Midnight Heir: 4 ⭐️ My favorite story so far. Meeting James Herondale made me super excited for Chain of Gold. 5. The Rise of the Hotel Dumort: 3.5 ⭐️ I don’t really care about the Hotel Dumort… the best part of this story was imagining Magnus and all the vampires seriously having a book and tea club, not just as a cover-up. 6. Saving Raphael Santiago: 4 ⭐️ I loved reading about Raphaels origin story. He is one of my favorite side-characters from the series. 7. The Fall of the Hotel Dumort: 3 ⭐️ Yup, still not caring about the Hotel Dumort, or Camille and her drug problem. 8. What To Buy The Shadowhunter Who Has Everything: 4.5 ⭐️ What can I say? I stan Malec, and I love the relationship that Magnus and Izzy are forming. 9. The Last Stand of the New York Institute: 4.5 ⭐️ I hate Valentine with all my heart. I also really loved the ending, with Jocelyn coming to Magnus and Tessa for help. It felt a bit like coming full circle, as this situation is talked about in City of Heavenly Fire. 10. The Course of True Love (And First Dates): 5 ⭐️ The Butt Song was a personal highlight of this story. This whole story was just hilarious. Best worst first date ever. 11. The Voicemail of Magnus Bane: 4.5⭐️ I wasn't really sure how entertaining voicemail messages could be, but I wasn't expcecting them to be this funny.

1. What really happened in Peru: ⭐⭐ 2. The Runaway Queen: ⭐⭐⭐ 3. Vampires, Scones and Edmund Herondale: ⭐⭐⭐ 4. The Midnight Heir: ⭐⭐ 5. The Rise of the Hotel Dumort: ⭐⭐ 6. Saving Raphael Santiago: ⭐⭐⭐ 7. The Fall of the Hotel Dumort: ⭐⭐ 8. What to Buy a Shadowhunter who has everything: ⭐⭐⭐ 9. The Last Stand of the New York Institute: ⭐⭐ 10. The Course of True Love (and First Dates): ⭐ 11. The Voicemail of Magnus Bane: ⭐⭐⭐

Hach ... Magnus Bane! (Ich glaube ich habe noch keine meiner Rezensionen mit einem Seufzer begonnen aber bei ihm ... hach ... gehts einfach nicht anders) Für mich ist Magnus Bane eindeutig der interessanteste, spannendste, faszinierendste und einfach großartigste Buchcharakter, der jemals von einem Autor geschaffen wurde. Für mich ist er die unschlagbare Nummer Eins; dementsprechend aufgekratzt und hibbelig war ich, als Cassandra Clare ein ganzes Buch nur über Magnus Bane heraus gebracht hat. Das Cover der deutschen Ausgabe finde ich wirklich wunderschön. Ich finde es toll, dass es an die Cover der Mortal Instruments Reihe und der Infernal Devices Reihe angepasst wurde, so sieht das Ganze im Regal richtig schön einheitlich aus (auch wenn ich die Bücher bisher alle nur auf Englisch besitze). Die Farben finde ich einfach großartig und einfach die ganze Gestaltung, mit der New York Skyline, den goldenen Verzierungen, etc. ist einfach wunderschön und passt perfekt zu dem Buch. Da ich allerdings bisher alle Bücher von Cassandra Clare auf Englisch gelesen habe und daher (bis auf Teil 1 und 2 der Mortal Instruments Reihe) auch nur die englischen Ausgaben besitze, werde ich mir auch demnächst noch die englische Ausgabe der Bane Chronicles zulegen. Auch dieses Cover finde ich wunderschön - wer auch nicht, mit diesem gutaussehenden Mann vorne drauf ;-) Das Cover, sowohl der deutschen als auch der englischen Ausgabe ist für mich ein absolutes Highlight und gehört auf jeden Fall in jedes Bücherregal. Das Buch ist in 10 Kurzgeschichten unterteilt, die es, soweit ich informiert bin, auch alle einzeln als E-Books zu kaufen gibt. Die Geschichten beginnen im Jahre 1791 in Peru, zu der Zeit, als Magnus noch ein "junger" Mann war. Man lernt ihn kennen, wie er früher war; man erfährt, was er so in seinen Anfängen getrieben hat und mit wem er seine Zeit verbracht hat. Die einzelnen Kurzgeschichten durchlaufen verschiedene Zeiten und bauen wunderbar aufeinander auf. Man merkt, wie sich Magnus weiter entwickelt und mit der Zeit geht, was natürlich unumgänglich ist, wenn man ewig lebt. Man bekommt einen Eindruck von Magnus Leben bevor alles begonnen hat, bevor er nach New York kam und dort der Oberste Hexenmeister von Brooklyn wurde. Für mich ist dieses Buch ein absoluter Leckerbissen. Auch hier lernen wir Magnus als einen witzigen, humorvollen, herzlichen jungen Mann kennen, was genau die Eigenschaften sind, die ihn zu etwas ganz besonderem machen; gepaart mit all diesen Geheimnissen, die tief in ihm schlummern und den vielen vielen Abenteuern, die er in seinem Leben bereits erlebt hat. Während des Lesens lernt man auch immer wieder altbekannte und neue Personen kennen. Da wäre zum Beispiel Ragnor Fell, einer seiner besten Freunde und ebenfalls ein Hexenmeister, der, einen recht irren Eindruck macht, aber ebenso humorvoll ist wie Magnus selbst. Neben Ragnor Fell gehört auch Catarina Loss zu seinen engsten Vertrauten, die ebenfalls eine Hexerin ist und mit Kraft ihres Zauberglanzes versucht, ihre eigentlich grüne Haut vor den Augen der Sterblichen zu verbergen. Die Drei zusammen geben ein richtig lustiges Gespann ab und alleine die Dialoge, die zwischen ihnen hin und her purzeln sind so großartig, dass man aus dem Grinsen gar nicht mehr raus kommt. Doch das sind natürlich nicht die einzigen Charaktere, denen man in dem Buch begegnet. Man trifft auf viele Schattenjäger, stille Brüder, Vampire und ja, auch Raphael Santiago spielt in Magnus Bane's Geschichte eine sehr große Rolle. Man lernt in diesem Buch sehr viel über sein Leben, viele Sachen werden aufgedeckt, die in Zusammenhang mit den Mortal Instruments oder den Infernal Devices stehen, was bedeutet, dass auch einige Spoiler vorhanden sind. Doch z. B. werden einem Dinge aus den anderen Büchern viel klarer, weil man jetzt einfach die Hintergründe kennt und weiß, wieso jemand so gehandelt hat - dies insbesondere z. B. auch in Bezug auf Raphael Santiago. (Wer City of Heavenly Fire bereits gelesen hat, weiß womöglich wovon ich spreche :-)) Ich als riesiger Malec-Shipper mochte die beiden Kurzgeschichten über Magnus und Alec natürlich am liebsten. Meinetwegen könnte Cassandra Clare ein Buch nur über Magnus und Alec schreiben, am liebsten eines mit unendlich vielen Seiten. Ich würde so gerne noch so viel mehr über die Beziehung der beiden erfahren, sie im Alltag begleiten und miterleben, wie sie miteinander umgehen und sich so richtig kennen- und lieben lernen. Umso glücklicher war ich natürlich, als ich zu der letzten Kurzgeschichte gelangte und feststellen musste, dass sie von Magnus und Alec's ersten Date handelt. Ich kann gar nicht mehr zählen, wie oft ich aufgekreischt, gejubelt, geseufzt und vor mich hin gesäuselt habe. Ich glaube ich habe gerade diese Geschichte drei oder vier Mal hintereinander gelesen, mir tausend Post-it's reingeklebt und meine Lieblingsstellen regelrecht verschlungen. In meinen Augen ist dieses Buch mehr als perfekt und ein absolutes Muss für alle Magnus Bane Fans. Auch Cassandra Clare's Schreibstil ist wie immer einfach wunderbar. Ich liebe einfach ihren Humor, den sie ganz besonders in den Dialogen zum Ausdruck bringt. Gibt es einen witzigeren Kerl als Magnus Bane? Ich glaube nicht. Mehr als einmal habe ich bei seinen Kommentaren auf dem Boden gelegen und was soll ich sagen, seine Art macht ihn einfach so unglaublich heiß, wenn ich könnte, würde ich ihn gleich heiraten und für mich beanspruchen :-) Dieses Buch ist in meinen Augen ein absolutes Lesemuss für jeden Cassandra Clare Fan - und für alle Magnus Bane Fans sowieso. Man erhält unglaublich viel Hintergrundwissen, lernt so viel mehr über die ganze Geschichten des schillernden Hexenmeisters und dazu macht das ganze Bauch auch noch riesigen Spaß. Ich liebe es; habe mich noch mal ein bisschen mehr in Magnus verliebt und würde es am liebsten gleich noch mal lesen, was ich wahrscheinlich auch tun werde, sobald auch die englische Ausgabe mein Regal schmückt. Von mir aus können noch sehr sehr viele Bücher mehr über/mit Magnus kommen, dann aber bitte auch eines über Malec. ;-) Für mich gibt es gar keine andere Möglichkeit als dieses Buch mit 5 von 5 Punkten zu bewerten.

El gran brujo de Brooklyn regresa con ‘Las Crónicas de Magnus Bane’, un libro con once historias contando sus aventuras, amistades y sus relaciones con el paso de los años. Los relatos que se presentan en el libro son buenos. Aunque los primeros se me hicieron extremadamente largos (no son short stories como dice la sinopsis), una vez fui avanzando y empezaron a aparecer personajes que ya conozco/amo de Los Origenes y Los Instrumentos Mortales, se me hizo más entretenido y me terminaban gustando los capítulos. Ver la aparición de Will, Tessa y Jem unos años después del epilogo de Princesa Mecánica que me llenó el corazón, conocemos más a James Herondale de quien necesito llegar a su historia, nos hablan del origen del famoso collar de rubí y por supuesto los inicios de la relación con Alec. Magnus es un personaje bastante único y posee una forma de ser que lo destaca, es por ello que pasando los capítulos pude reírme de sus ocurrencias, emocionarme e incluso conmoverme un poco. Aunque hubo uno que otro detalle al menos en los primeros relatos que siento que estuvieron de más, del resto la lectura estuvo buena. <b>— 3,75 estrellas. </b>

Das Buch beinhaltet insgesamt 11 Kurzgeschichten über die Abenteuer des Magnus Bane. Dabei kann man alle Kurzgeschichten unabhängig voneinander lesen. Allerdings würde ich empfehlen, vorher die Chroniken der Schattenjäger oder die Chroniken der Unterwelt gelesen zu haben, da in diesem Buch die Welt der Schattenjäger nur begrenzt erklärt wird und Spoiler auftauchen könnten. Im Großen und Ganzen hat mir das Buch richtig gut gefallen. In jedem Kapitel lernt Magnus neue Leute kennen, die man selbst als Cassandra Clare Fan schon kennt hat. Außerdem hat mir gefallen, dass man sowohl verschiedene Zeitepochen, als auch Orte kennen lernt. Der Schreibstil war wie gewohnt sehr detailreich , aber dennoch gut zu lesen und flüssig. Mein Highlight war natürlich Magnus Bane selbst. Ich könnte mir keinen charmanteren und lustigeren Hexenmeister vorstellen. Einen Stern muss ich jedoch abziehen, da mir manche Geschichten weniger gut gefallen haben als andere und mir teilweise die Spannung gefehlt hat, wodurch sich das ganze in die Länge gezogen hat. Fazit Alles in allem ein tolles Spin-Off für jeden Cassandra Clare und Magnus Bane Fan.Es ist wirklich sehr unterhaltsam und man lernt noch mehr über die Welt der Schattenjäger hinzu. Außerdem kann ich empfehlen, dieses Buch auf englisch zu lesen. 4 Sterne !

Oh boy, I had a really hard time rating this book. I love C. Clare and her Shadowhunter series, but I have my problems with The Bane Chronicles. Somehow I was really looking forward to this book and yet I was disappointed. I liked some of the short stories - especially the ones where familiar characters appeared who also play a very important role later on. Other short stories I didn't like at all. Linguistically, too, it was - in my opinion - very different from Clare's solo works - that's clear. I found "Saving Raphael Santiago", "What To Buy The Shadowhunter Who Has Everything (And Who You're Not Officially Dating Anyway)", "The Course of True Love" and "The Voicemail of Magnus Bane" really good and entertaining. All the others were not really my cup of tea. However, I found many mentions nice, I was especially happy about Anna Lightwood <3 It was just super nicely done!

2.5 The book just did not feel like a Clare book to me it seemed as if her name only was on it bc it's about her world and characters. I barely enjoyed it. I love Magnus' character and there were some gems in it but the majority of the book just wasn't for me. A lot of the jokes also seemed very forced and made me cringe when reading.

AWESOME! What else is there to say about this book??? Now to the proper review: 1 – What Really Happened in Peru This part of the story shows a side of Magnus that we know but at the same time we don’t. This book shows his thoughts, his life, his friends as never seen before. And I have to say: I do not like Ragnor. He’s gloomy and sad to Magnus’s bright spirit, and that saddens me… I mean, he stills follows Magnus and doesn’t leave him, but he also keeps saying things that have the potential to burst his friend’s bubble if he didn’t have happiness to spare. But he bursts my bubble of happiness for Magnus and that’s the reason why I don’t like him much. Catarina, though, seems softer and sweeter, indulging Magnus more and being closer to him than Ragnor. This story shows Magnus’s wild spirit and had some extremely funny moments of the warlock we love so much. It showed the love he’s capable of and the heartbreak that can follow. 2 – The Runaway Queen Blue-eyed men with black hair always get Magnus in trouble. In this story our beloved warlock is in Paris during the French revolution and is asked to help save the King and Queen of France by the Queen’s lover, a blue-eyed man with black hair for whom Magnus would do just about anything it would seem. He goes along with the established plan in which he places a glamour on her and goes to the vampire party he said he’d go to (and to which his refusal was unacceptable). But the Queen is found wandering around near the vampires’ party after she took a wrong turn. Magnus hides his panic well, though, and pretends that she’s merely the wife of a client of his that he was asked to completely transform into Queen Marie Antoinette. The vampire in charge accepts his lie but says she’ll be his, so Magnus says he still has to sign his work and is left alone. Magnus is a very powerful warlock but even he has his limits. With a large amount of magic poured into the spell, he brings a hot-air balloon, made invisible to anyone looking, to his window and shoves the Queen into it. She gets to the man that hired Magnus and then he drives her away. 3 – Vampires, Scones and Edmund Herondale It’s so fantastically easy to recognize a Herondale! They have these traits that just seem to run in the family, like sarcasm and flirtation! And they are always introduced using one of the two, and I just love it! And of course Magnus is immediately attracted to him. And the Shadowhunters in the room are all scandalized and backwards, I want to hit them upside the head! Also their personality, the Herondale’s I mean, is very similar: tell them not to do something, and they’ll bend over backwards if need be to do it! Adventure, debauchery…! This has Will Herondale written all over, right? Traits passed down from his (lovely, fantastic) father! And Magnus was lucky enough to meet them both! After drinking and playing cards, Edmund and Magnus are making their way back when they come across a couple of women being attacked by a demon. Edmund immediately joins the fight and gets the demon away from the women, with some intervention from Magnus. One of the women there is a lady, come to search for a husband who can help her and not take her estate and lands from under her, and she is so calm and normal in that situation that Edmund falls for her, right then and there. She even banters a little with him! It’s a match made in Heaven! But Edmund has a very difficult choice ahead of him: ask the love of his life to risk her life trying to Ascend and become a Shadowhunter herself or give up his life’s dream to be with her. It is such a painful conversation he happens to have with Magnus… I was crying while I read how Magnus thought he looked like “an angel brought to his knees”, and his brightness diminished… But it was so much worse to hear his cries of agony as he was stripped of his Marks… So unbearable… 4 – The Midnight Heir In this story Magnus meets Will and Tessa’s kid, James, giving us an unexpected (for me) insight to the Last Hours trilogy. James, much like all the Herondales, it would seem (except Edmund, he seemed to be the only half rational one), thinks himself cursed somehow. He does the stupidest and most dangerous things while drunk, while Magnus follows him to make sure he doesn’t die, like he almost does. He also takes the boy back to his parents, who are just as sweet as in their own trilogy, and who call Jem to try to help, and then it’s sweetness overload! But James doesn’t want to be helped, he thinks he’s cursed and he’ll soon die. Leaving the boy be, since he does not want any help, he makes his way to his client, the youngest daughter of Benedict Lightwood, the man who contracted demon pox and who turned into a giant worm his sons and the gang had to kill. She hates Shadowhunters now because of the fate that befell her family and wants Magnus to kill five of them, random, so she can use that energy for dark purposes. Of course he says no and turns his back to leave as fast as he can. But the woman’s young ward, a girl named Grace who seems very detached from the human side of a person and worse seems to be coated in magic to make people love her or something, follows him. Magnus thinks she needs to be saved, but quickly realizes that is not the case when she puts a blade to his throat. He also realizes that poor James truly is cursed, but not because of an actual curse. He’s cursed because he was taught to believe that love was pure and good by his parents and uncle, because there is nothing stronger and purer than their love, and he was just forced by whatever magic Grace has that makes people love her. And that is going to be hard to change… And of course this little story peaks my interest about James and the new story on this new trilogy! 5 – The Rise of the Hotel Dumort It’s interesting to know how this “famous” hotel came to be! It was smack in the middle of the Prohibition so of course our dearest warlock is the proud owner of a speakeasy. One day he gets weird news from a vampire, that he later finds out is one of Camille’s, to watch the mundanes’ money, whom he later finds out were the sponsors to the building of the hotel. He dismisses it but the next day he hears very similar news from the at the time High Warlock of Manhattan and it intrigues him enough to try his luck with the local Shadowhunters. The conversation feels a little dismissive so Magnus checks out the hotel himself and sees a group of rich humans enter. Nothing happens for weeks but the day the stocks collapse a light appears above the hotel and Magnus rushes toward it. The High Warlock got the humans killed, in a demonstration they asked for, after getting a dozen demons out. But that is not even the biggest problem! The biggest problem is the crazy warlock who made the hotel the biggest Portal ever and opened it into Pandemonium. Well, he didn’t, his spilled blood did when a Shadowhunter killed him. Thankfully Magnus avoided a real crisis and managed to close the Portal, leaving the hotel as we know it from The Mortal Instruments. 6 – Saving Raphael Santiago This story gives an amazing insight to another beloved character: Raphael Santiago. Magnus met him when he was “playing” at being a private detective. Raphael’s mother hires him to find and save her son from the vampires he was after. Magnus inquires after it before he goes to the hotel and finds Raphael. At first he thinks that the boy is being drained and shoves the vampire away, but then he realizes that Raphael is the vampire. He wants to kill himself for what he is but Magnus prevents it and takes him to his place, telling him that he can be with his family all the same. From that moment on Raphael trains and trains and trains a little harder to control everything about him: his hunger, his strength, his aversion to the cross, holy water and God’s name, to the point where he’s frequently hurting but is also an inspiration of strength. He’s also sassy and constantly making fun of Magnus with a straight face which is just hilarious! And when Ragnor joins him? Magnus is down for the count with those two constantly poking and making fun of him, it’s really fun! And, with a little lie saying that Magnus saved Raphael by making him an immortal warlock, Raphael goes back to his family, joins Camille’s ranks and becomes her second in command, always remembering Magnus’s act of kindness and his invaluable help but never being any warmer towards him. 7 – The Fall of the Hotel Dumort In this story Magnus returns to New York after a vacation to find the city has descended into chaos. Vampires are running wild, killing too often, drugs are running rampant in humans’ blood streams and werewolves need to act before Shadowhunters do, so they ask Magnus for help. Against his better judgment he goes to speak to Camille, who is high, reckless and untamable in that moment. He’s sent away, unable to do anything, but shortly after the city descends further into chaos. Vampires get too close to bring Shadowhunters down on the Downworld and no one wants that, so the werewolves take matters into their own hands. Magnus intervenes, forces Camille to call every vampire under her control to the hotel, where he locks them in and werewolves patrol so no one gets out. In the end, Magnus calls Catarina Loss to lock away every memory Magnus had of Camille in the last century, so as to make the pain easier again… 8 – What to Buy to the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything (And Who You’re Not Officially Dating Anyway) Magnus’s love for Alec is so sweet and soft, right from the start!!! On Alec’s 18th birthday Magnus, who has to work, spends the entire day worrying about what he’ll give to his yet-to-be-official boyfriend, until he finally knows what to do. Izzy stops by to say that she knows about them and is perfectly fine with it, and he takes advantage of the fact that she’s there to give her Alec’s gift: extra protecting to his sister, a gift he doesn’t know he received. It’s really sweet! I love these two so damn much!!! 9 – The Last Stand of the New York Institute Magnus is called to help with in an emergency situation in which the Circle is involved! Valentine is attacking werewolves that were in the pack that killed his parents and Magnus does his best to help but he’s badly outnumbered until the members of the New York Institute join the fight. Most of the werewolves are saved but only because the Circle killed all the other Shadowhunters and Luke called Valentine to reason. Magnus, as it is obvious, gained a profound dislike for any and all members of the Circle. Even Jocelyn has a hard time convincing him that she wants Clary far from her old world and it’s partly due to Tessa’s help that he helps Jocelyn and Clary. 10 – The Course of True Love (And First Dates) What to know what I have to say about this chapter? Malec! That’s all you need to know! It’s tentative, shy, almost, to be honest, before it sets itself on the sweet, lovely rhythm of (dare I say it) the most beloved pairing in this series! 11 – The Voicemail of Magnus Bane Simply hilarious! Izzy constantly calling Magnus about how it’s his loss that he broke up with Alec. Izzy harassing several characters into doing the same thing (hell, I’m pretty sure that she’s the one that dragged poor Maryse Lightwood into this). And poor Alec, asking friends to “put in a good word” for him! It was quite funny to read this!