The Red Scrolls of Magic

I LOVED THIS! Magnus and Alec are just the best people to follow because of how they are such opposites in many ways but so damn good together! The story was a bit slow in the beginning, but kicks off rather well when we get out of Paris. Overall, the story feels smaller than what we're used to seeing from Cassandra Clare, which simultaneously makes it more intimate but also a little less engrossing. Don't get me wrong, I loved it!
There was SO MUCH name dropping and call-backs to other books in this. Like, A LOT. And it becomes especially apparent when you've read all the Shadowhunter books because we meet characters in this that, chronologically in the books that came out before this, you wouldn't know until much later. So it's like a call-back to the future? Idk, it's kind of a mind-cluster if you try to go too deep in to it. But as someone who HAS read all the books, I loved the mentions and call-backs. But I do wonder if the end of this books would ruin a spoiler (albeit not humongous but still pretty big) in a much later (time-wise) book. Idk, it's hard for me to say since I've only ever read these in one kind of way and that is publication order. Anyway, I'm rambling at this point.
I loved it. I love Magnus. I love Aline. I love Helen. I love Raphael. I loved it.