Nova Rants: Dragging a Series to Hell

Dragging a Series to Hell

It's more like "Dragging Me to Hell" because I read this stuff, but I hope you get the idea.

What does this mean exactly? For those who know, here's a cookie. For those who don't... It's literally dragging a series out. Listen up, authors. Books are not TV Shows. An episode of a TV show is half an hour; this is not the equivalent to a book. It takes me closer to two hours to read a book and only a 1/2 hour for a TV show. Plus, at least the TV shows I watch have some kind of substance. Teen drama, but still something.

And there are still some people who fell in love with the series and are buying them up. You're either dedicated to the series, or you're made of money. However, I have other books to read and I'm Out of Time.(Plus, I have a life, thanks... well, sorta.)

Cassandra Clare. 
This is my opinion. I'm not trying to change your opinion, so please don't try to change mine.
 

Let me be honest... TMI fans... TID fans... Other fans... I was a fan who went: omg, her books are so good! At least that's at first. And then I read another series.... hm... this looks a LOT like (her other series.) Plus, TID was lied to me about the Steampunk. Don't be fooled by the word "steampunk". It's barely there in Clockwork (whichever). So yeah. TMI... TID...TDA...

They're all seem the same basic plot to me.  The basic plot about "people who are half angel, walking slowly and dramatically and killing demons." And then there's some fluff here and there and we're all eating it up like it's the best thing since sliced bread. 

 

Her "Shadowhunter" world is filled with history and plot that I'm sure is hard to let go. So bam! This woman wants to write 18 books in total about Shadowhunters. She is milking a dead cow. And there are still people dedicated to her series. Come on, people! There are more fish in the sea... Different fish in the sea. This series is stale. It's going to get boring. And eventually, people'll see the sales going down. And let's be honest, City of Bones was (somewhat) of a disaster (partly because I'm comparing to what she can do now/it's a debut). Clary and Isabelle were horrible people, Simon was a loser and Jace had no style (the bad boys have evolved since like 2008.)
So here's a reader like me who has a major love/hate relationship with the series. I still love it in the sense that it's keeping "Teen Fiction Junkie Nova" happy. I'm not going to buy 18 books about Shadowhunters when some characters could use a good offing. (No seriously, I pretty much hated all her characters for their annoying-ness.)

Her characters are stale, her plots recycled and there's  talk that she's copying from Harry Potter. (Clary = Tessa, Girl who doesn't know who she is meets dashing shadowhunter... Valentine = Voldemort) Also, her titles. Ugh. And they don't even make sense half the time. What is a Clockwork Prince? No please tell me! I could draw 10,000 parallels, but that's what tumblr is for

Oh, and just so you know *sarcastic smile* This is 18 books not including: Shadowhunter Codex, Bane Chronicles and whatever else she isn't telling us yet. There are going to be more of these (insert something here) as I'm growing up. It won't even stop when I've hit 18.

Another note: She also (apparently) has an adult erotica series for Shadowhunters. Woman. Seriously? I know you want to target all audiences, but you can find a better storyline.

This is me reading City of (Whatever Hell)

I've heard defense from people saying that "it's her world. Books are set in The Real World all the time. But no one complains about that!" The "world" is a bigger place than Cassandra Clare (like any author) could ever write. Duh. There are a billion books set in The Real World. In The Real World, there are countries, continents and history that hasn't even been written yet. Don't tell me that that'll ever get boring. And please don't tell me that Clare's world deserves to be bought for 25 bucks a pop (though that might be because of my climate).
Thanks. Even JK Rowling doesn't have than many books, and her world has just as much "stuff" as Clare's.

  - Says Cassandra Clare

Let go, woman. Just let go. Find a different series. I'm sure that people'll definitely buy anything with your name on it, so why not make it something different and y'know, new?

Last note: Cassandra Clare can write. From reading her TMI series, I've seen her writing progress. I just don't like what's actually going on with her content... or lack of.

So this is my idea of "Dragging a Series to Hell". Featuring Cassandra Clare because ugh... seriously?