The Bronze Key (Magisterium Series Book 3) by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black
10/06/2016
Plot:
Magic can save you.
Magic can kill you.
Magic can kill you.
Students at the Magisterium are supposed to be safe. Under the watchful eyes of the mages, they are taught to use magic to bring order to a chaotic world.
But now the chaos is fighting back. Call, Tamara, and Aaron should be worrying about things like pop quizzes and magic contests. Instead, after the shocking death of one of their classmates, they must track down a sinister killer… and risk their own lives in the process.
As Call, Tamara, and Aaron discover, magic can only be as good as the person who wields it. In evil hands, it has the capacity to do immeasurable harm, unless it is stopped in time.
In this striking third book of Magisterium, bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare present us with a school where anything, good or evil, can happen, and the only way to unlock the truth is to risk everything to find it.
Thoughts:
It started out slow for me, and I like that Call has gotten over his being Evil Overlord obsession from the last book, ultimately because he now has an open book relationship with his close friends Tamara and Aaron.
I love that there’s more about Aaron and I just felt like getting to know his character more in this book. Yes our characters are starting to grow up and eeep puberty! They’re tackling about courtship and love lives in this book and I can’t even. Glad it’s not yet in the lead characters but only limited to Jasper which is a bit funny, but surprisingly his relationship with Celia pushed through. I was a little worried when Call started comparing himself to Aaron regarding how Tamara sees them both. Please, not another love triangle between close friends! Hopefully it won’t go to that direction!
There are a lot of new characters in the story but I can’t say I like any of them though. All in all it’s a good read. The ending is.. I can’t quite express it. It was sad that Cassie and Holly killed off Aaron. Maygahd! I was getting teary-eyed… and the revelation Anastasia revealed to Call… wtf.
Rating:
3.5 stars out of 5
There was no Aaron anymore. No counterweight to his own soul. Just this feeling of emptiness, the feeling that something had been ripped away from him that could never be replaced.
He understood now how Constantine Madden could have wanted to tear down the world once his brother was gone.
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