{"id":357,"date":"2016-03-16T16:42:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T16:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.wordpress.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2016-03-16T16:42:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T16:42:26","slug":"book-review-welcome-to-shadowhunter-academy-by-cassandra-and-clare-sarah-rees-brennan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/16\/book-review-welcome-to-shadowhunter-academy-by-cassandra-and-clare-sarah-rees-brennan\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy by Cassandra and Clare Sarah Rees Brennan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1423801226l\/22428828.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #1)\" width=\"235\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre:\u00a0<\/strong>Fantasy, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Rating<\/strong>: 3 stars<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy<\/em> is a companion series of novellas to <em>The Mortal Instruments .\u00a0<\/em>It follows Simon as he trains to become a shadowhunter. This short story \u00a0includes his arrival\u00a0in the Academy \u00a0and the first days of his training.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t a big fan of this story. The writing felt off and not like Cassandra Clare&#8217;s at all. Simon&#8217;s inner monologue didn&#8217;t sound like him\u00a0and everything felt rushed. An incident that happened towards the end seemed quite ridiculous to me.<\/p>\n<p>Still, i&#8217;m not too put out by this as it was only the first installment in this series. I&#8217;m excited to continue with the rest and hope its better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/22428828-welcome-to-shadowhunter-academy\">Add this book on Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Genre:\u00a0Fantasy, Young Adult My Rating: 3 stars &nbsp; Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy is a companion series of novellas to The Mortal Instruments .\u00a0It follows Simon as he trains to become a shadowhunter. This short story \u00a0includes his arrival\u00a0in&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/16\/book-review-welcome-to-shadowhunter-academy-by-cassandra-and-clare-sarah-rees-brennan\/#more-357\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &#10142; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy by Cassandra and Clare Sarah Rees Brennan<\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,98,99,115,180,187,429,496,512],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-book-review","tag-bookreview","tag-books","tag-cassandra-clare","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-tales-from-shadowhunter-academy","tag-welcome-to-shadowhunter-academy","tag-youngadult"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11561,"url":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/23\/ten-book-series-i-want-to-finish\/","url_meta":{"origin":357,"position":0},"title":"Ten Book Series I Want To Finish","date":"December 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey everyone! 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