Review: Cazadores de sombras y Subterráneos. La guía esencial.

Cazadores de sombras y Subterráneos. La guía esencial. by Cassandra Clare
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I liked that there were other writers writing essays about certain topics in The Mortal Instruments. It is a great exercise to talk about the ideas that these popular series transmit. However the last two essays were out of focus and pointless. As the complator is the writer of TMI I believe that she picked the essays from her friends that spoke good things about the books. The one about Malec is interesting and also the one about Simon being a jewish vampire. I liked the analysis of friendship and taboo that goes along with every essay here complilated. But the last one I could barely follow up the idea.
The reason why I read this kind of books is because they remind me that everything can belong to academia and we need to understand what is happening in our surroundings, coming to talk about literature, tv-series and pop culture. Convergence is my study topic and these kind of works help me focusing on what I'd like to discuss. Nonetheless the bias that comes from the editor/writer limits the conflict that can be discussed about the series, as focuses only in what matters to the author and is said as good critics of her work.

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