![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
In Which the Nazca Lines Are Vomited Upon
May. 18th, 2013 05:39 pmI have been unsure of whether or not I should blog What Really Happened in Peru has a whole book or not; it is a short story, possibly flirting with novella length (being about fifty pages); it will eventually be but one entry in a book entitled The Bane Chronicles, but right now it lives as its own ebook.
Anyway, it is by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan. It concerns Magnus Bane, the most awesome character in Clare's Shadowhunter books, and also the only one who shows up in all of the books, because I think if there were a Shadowhunter book with no Magnus Bane in it all the fans would pine away and die. He is to be played by Godfrey Gao in the movie.
Godfrey Gao with a kitten, because all pretty boys are even prettier when holding kittens. Cue Sarah Rees Brennan saying "MORE LIKE MAGNUS BABE, AMIRITE LADIES?"
So... is this Cassandra Clare and her friends basically writing fanfiction of her own character? YES. Yes, it definitely is.
Do I give a shit? NO. NO I DO NOT.
This utterly lolarious little novella gives us a series of vignettes about Magnus' adventures in Peru with his cranky green warlock buddy Ragnor Fell and, in some cases, charming blue warlock friend Catarina Loss.
The writing style can mostly be described as "Identical to Sarah Rees Brennan's tumblr," which I am quite okay with, because SRB's tumblr is a great frickin' read. Even if she does use the word "beam" a lot.
The editing is not very tight and the amount of drinking that happens is reminiscent of nothing so much as a D&D game among people who are too young to actually drink. Again, I end up not really caring, because the things Magnus does while drunk are too funny, and more importantly, they're not portrayed en-scene; they are recounted to Magnus as he is dying of hangover as a means to embarrass him, which is amusing. Although not as amusing as the hangover cure they attempt.
The vignettes involve such wacky hijinks as Magnus almost getting attacked by an angry monkey in the rainforest, Magnus attempting to learn an instrument to impress a cute boy and failing utterly miserably, and Magnus being hired to guard an export ship filled with guano while wearing a jaunty hat. (While composing that sentence, I originally typed "guard an export shit".)
Most of all, this story is just full of lots of hilarious jokes. I first read it while eating ice cream and quickly learned that this was not going to work because ice cream is very painful when it winds up in your nose.
This story does not actually tell us why Magnus Bane was banned from Peru. Apparently a lot of people on Amazon are really upset about this. Too bad for them; it's not good to go into a story with too many expectations. Story is still funny and features lots of jaunty hats.
Anyway, it is by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan. It concerns Magnus Bane, the most awesome character in Clare's Shadowhunter books, and also the only one who shows up in all of the books, because I think if there were a Shadowhunter book with no Magnus Bane in it all the fans would pine away and die. He is to be played by Godfrey Gao in the movie.
Godfrey Gao with a kitten, because all pretty boys are even prettier when holding kittens. Cue Sarah Rees Brennan saying "MORE LIKE MAGNUS BABE, AMIRITE LADIES?"
So... is this Cassandra Clare and her friends basically writing fanfiction of her own character? YES. Yes, it definitely is.
Do I give a shit? NO. NO I DO NOT.
This utterly lolarious little novella gives us a series of vignettes about Magnus' adventures in Peru with his cranky green warlock buddy Ragnor Fell and, in some cases, charming blue warlock friend Catarina Loss.
The writing style can mostly be described as "Identical to Sarah Rees Brennan's tumblr," which I am quite okay with, because SRB's tumblr is a great frickin' read. Even if she does use the word "beam" a lot.
The editing is not very tight and the amount of drinking that happens is reminiscent of nothing so much as a D&D game among people who are too young to actually drink. Again, I end up not really caring, because the things Magnus does while drunk are too funny, and more importantly, they're not portrayed en-scene; they are recounted to Magnus as he is dying of hangover as a means to embarrass him, which is amusing. Although not as amusing as the hangover cure they attempt.
The vignettes involve such wacky hijinks as Magnus almost getting attacked by an angry monkey in the rainforest, Magnus attempting to learn an instrument to impress a cute boy and failing utterly miserably, and Magnus being hired to guard an export ship filled with guano while wearing a jaunty hat. (While composing that sentence, I originally typed "guard an export shit".)
Most of all, this story is just full of lots of hilarious jokes. I first read it while eating ice cream and quickly learned that this was not going to work because ice cream is very painful when it winds up in your nose.
This story does not actually tell us why Magnus Bane was banned from Peru. Apparently a lot of people on Amazon are really upset about this. Too bad for them; it's not good to go into a story with too many expectations. Story is still funny and features lots of jaunty hats.