Bianca

It's a rollercoaster of stupidness. The maicharacter is so indecisive and naive, it hurts. Character growth? It flies out of the window every second page.
The first third was good. And then we switch between a sex descriptions/ sex talk and actual relationship.

It's not hate to love, it's not slowburn. It's just a ditzy stupid blonde with miscommunication

The Codex is a great extension to the shadow hunter world. Filled with lots of new content and known facts from the mortal instruments series, I found myself easily reinvested in the series. The comments were sometimes unneccessary but overall this book was a nice one to fill the void until Lady Midnight comes out.

Awesome graphic novel.

I tried to read Soulless a few times in the past and didn't get engaged in the story (probably due to the fact that I tried to read it in french which is my second fluent language). This week I found the graphic novel in my local library and took all three novels with me (and read the first one in one sitting). The graphics were gorgeous and detailed and, for what I have read in Soulless so far, similar to the book itself.

I will continue to read the next two books in graphic novel form before I try reading the complete series in german and - if the german version also turns out to be not as suiting for my reading taste - in english.

3.5 Stars.

I don't really know how I feel about this. 75% of the book, nothing happens! You only get the conversations with a mix of old and new Alina which super enerves me! I hated Majlen even more than in book 1 for his either stupid actions or his not-so-full-devotion to Alina.

This definitly suffers the second book syndrome.

How did a 18 year old watch most of the series of the eigthies and play videogames in just 5 years? And some of them multiple times, I cannot understand.
The writing was flat and repetitive. I predicted the references of the key and gate quests, way before our main character did. After the first half I couldn't care less what would happen to our main character, who was either absolutely stupid or in the zone and a true gamer. No in between.

What also unnerved me to no end, was that there were no real dead ends. Almost everything had a point and the characters only didn't guessed it. Also the repetitions got on my nerve. Perhaps it was the fault of the translation but reading the same lines every few pages is exhausting and not helpful.

I thought that the ending could have helped this book, but I would have liked a different, not so open ending or an epilogue.

So one and a half quite generous stars for the references and the nostalgia factor.