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michalice's review against another edition
4.0
When I first heard about Son of the Dawn I knew I had to read it. I've really enjoyed The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices series and had to read this to see how it all began for Jace. Son of the Dawn takes place before The Mortal Instruments series starts, with the Lightwoods awaiting the arrival of Jace.
The book begins with a familiar face, Brother Zachariah, who it taking a stroll through the Shadow Market looking for news, what he fins instead is a vampire, Raphael, who distrusts Shadow Hunters, but has important news to share.
I really liked that we get to see familiar faces, both from the past and the future to come, and how these characters cross paths. I liked seeing how the message from Raphael, involves the Lightwoods and the delivery of Jace. I enjoyed seeing the characters work together to stop a shipment, as well as getting Jace home safe and sound. I loved how they welcomed him into their family, as well as the options given to him for his name.
Final Verdict
Son of the Dawn was a quick read, but packs enough into the pages to keep you interested and also wanting more. I'm excited to see where the rest of this series goes.
The book begins with a familiar face, Brother Zachariah, who it taking a stroll through the Shadow Market looking for news, what he fins instead is a vampire, Raphael, who distrusts Shadow Hunters, but has important news to share.
I really liked that we get to see familiar faces, both from the past and the future to come, and how these characters cross paths. I liked seeing how the message from Raphael, involves the Lightwoods and the delivery of Jace. I enjoyed seeing the characters work together to stop a shipment, as well as getting Jace home safe and sound. I loved how they welcomed him into their family, as well as the options given to him for his name.
Final Verdict
Son of the Dawn was a quick read, but packs enough into the pages to keep you interested and also wanting more. I'm excited to see where the rest of this series goes.
jessethereader's review against another edition
While I tend to gripe about the fact that you have to read some of these novellas before reading the main books... I still end up trash for these little stories. It was nice seeing interactions between different characters and also seeing moments when some of the characters met for the first time.
pewterwolf's review
3.0
Review Taken from The Pewter Wolf & eProof was given by publisher, Walker Books UK, in exchange for an honest review.
The first novella in the Ghosts of the Shadow Market is Son of the Dawn. Set several years prior to the events of The Mortal Instruments, the Lightwoods of the New York Institute is expecting a new member to join their family: Jace Wayland. But when Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah, is in the Shadow Market, he meets vampire Raphael, he hears something that throws ghosts from the past into the danger of the present...
I like the Shadowhunter world. I'm not as up to date with the world compared to other Shadowhunter fans (I haven't read the latter three Mortal Instruments books [out of fear/me thinking those characters's stories are done for me] nor have I read Lord of Shadows. Not yet but hopefully will read before Queen of Air and Darkness is published at the end of the year), and this was a nice story to read. I read it in two sittings (the first before I went to bed and the second when I woke up the following morning). It felt like returning to an old friend. Fans for Jem, Jace, Alec and Isabelle will enjoy this nugget of what their lives was like the years before City of Bones.
The little jem that I enjoyed hugely was the bonus material, Not for Humans, written by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black. It's only a few page longs and set a few days prior to City of Bones but I devoured this and just wanted more. If this is what Holly and Cassandra writing together is like, I need to get my rear in gear and read their co-author series, Magisterium.
But I had a niggle with this. Maybe it's me, but as I was reading this, I couldn't get away from the feeling that this didn't feel like Cassandra Clare writing, but this was Sarah Rees Brennan. I understand this is a co-authored story, but it feels a bit like Cursed Child in a sense where these are the characters created by the main author, yet someone else is using them and it feels off. I think I have this problem in the past when Sarah Rees Brennan co-writing a Shadowhunter novella. I think it's her writing and I don't click with it. It's not her problem, it's mine.
For fans of the Shadowhunter world, you will enjoy this. And I hope to read the next novella in the series, Cast Long Shadows, when that comes out next month...
The first novella in the Ghosts of the Shadow Market is Son of the Dawn. Set several years prior to the events of The Mortal Instruments, the Lightwoods of the New York Institute is expecting a new member to join their family: Jace Wayland. But when Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah, is in the Shadow Market, he meets vampire Raphael, he hears something that throws ghosts from the past into the danger of the present...
I like the Shadowhunter world. I'm not as up to date with the world compared to other Shadowhunter fans (I haven't read the latter three Mortal Instruments books [out of fear/me thinking those characters's stories are done for me] nor have I read Lord of Shadows. Not yet but hopefully will read before Queen of Air and Darkness is published at the end of the year), and this was a nice story to read. I read it in two sittings (the first before I went to bed and the second when I woke up the following morning). It felt like returning to an old friend. Fans for Jem, Jace, Alec and Isabelle will enjoy this nugget of what their lives was like the years before City of Bones.
The little jem that I enjoyed hugely was the bonus material, Not for Humans, written by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black. It's only a few page longs and set a few days prior to City of Bones but I devoured this and just wanted more. If this is what Holly and Cassandra writing together is like, I need to get my rear in gear and read their co-author series, Magisterium.
But I had a niggle with this. Maybe it's me, but as I was reading this, I couldn't get away from the feeling that this didn't feel like Cassandra Clare writing, but this was Sarah Rees Brennan. I understand this is a co-authored story, but it feels a bit like Cursed Child in a sense where these are the characters created by the main author, yet someone else is using them and it feels off. I think I have this problem in the past when Sarah Rees Brennan co-writing a Shadowhunter novella. I think it's her writing and I don't click with it. It's not her problem, it's mine.
For fans of the Shadowhunter world, you will enjoy this. And I hope to read the next novella in the series, Cast Long Shadows, when that comes out next month...
paginasdealex's review
5.0
JEM!!!!!
JACE!!!!
That's pretty much it,yep, that's the story.
Oh, and those are my reactions while reading it, plus a few tears and a bit of ugly sobbing.
Happy reading!
JACE!!!!
That's pretty much it,yep, that's the story.
Oh, and those are my reactions while reading it, plus a few tears and a bit of ugly sobbing.
Happy reading!
vidhi26p's review
5.0
An incredible revisit with our favorite characters as we see them in the beginnings of their journey.
rachelbookdragon's review
5.0
Really enjoyable to see the introduction of Jace to the Lightwoods, Raphael being Raphael, and Jem getting to shine as a Silent Brother.
keertea's review
5.0
“Why had he ever fought?
Only he remembered. He would not allow himself to forget.
Tessa, he thought. Will.
Despair was never stronger than the thought of them. He could not betray them by giving up.
They are Will and Tessa, and you were Ke Jian Ming. You were James Carstairs. You were Jem.”
“Sometimes you seem very far away from me, my parabatai.
Light on water had not rivaled the boy’s blazing contradiction of a smile, somehow both indomitable and too easily hurt. He was a child going to a new home, as Will and the boy Zachariah had been had once traveled in lonely sorrow to the place where they would find each other. Jem hoped he would find happiness.
Jem smiled back at a boy long gone.
Sometimes, Will, he said. You seem very close.”
I love William. More than that I love Jem and Will. I was not ready to cry!!
Can Cassie bring Will back at least for one scene so I get my Will and jem back?
Only he remembered. He would not allow himself to forget.
Tessa, he thought. Will.
Despair was never stronger than the thought of them. He could not betray them by giving up.
They are Will and Tessa, and you were Ke Jian Ming. You were James Carstairs. You were Jem.”
“Sometimes you seem very far away from me, my parabatai.
Light on water had not rivaled the boy’s blazing contradiction of a smile, somehow both indomitable and too easily hurt. He was a child going to a new home, as Will and the boy Zachariah had been had once traveled in lonely sorrow to the place where they would find each other. Jem hoped he would find happiness.
Jem smiled back at a boy long gone.
Sometimes, Will, he said. You seem very close.”
I love William. More than that I love Jem and Will. I was not ready to cry!!
Can Cassie bring Will back at least for one scene so I get my Will and jem back?