Eventually, Alec comes around and what better way to come out than to kiss a warlock in front of an entire assembly of people, most of whom don’t approve?Īs a young adult trying to figure out who I was in this world, I connected with these characters on a level I didn’t know existed. Magnus is openly bi, but Alec has never told anyone he’s gay. Throughout the first half of the series, we see Alec struggling to accept who he is. This is how Magnus and Alec met, and the rest was history. Warlocks, vampires, werewolves, and faeries are referred to as Downworlders, and they don’t particularly get along with the Shadowhunters, but they must work together to defeat the villains.

Magnus is a warlock-the high warlock of Brooklyn. There’s a lot more to it, but that’s the gist. Basically, they are demon hunters with angelic powers. I may have cried again…įor those who don’t know, Alec Lightwood is Nephilim, aka a Shadowhunter. A week later, it showed up on my doorstep like magic. I requested an ARC, not expecting to actually receive one. They had been my favorite for so long, I felt like I had been waiting for this my whole life. When Cassandra Clare announced that she was publishing a new trilogy focused on Magnus and Alec, I literally cried. However, after reading The Red Scrolls of Magic, they’re back on top where they belong. It changed when I read A Court of Mist and Fury in 2018. In fact, from then until the end of 2018, I claimed Magnus as my all-time favorite fictional character, with Alec in close second. But while most people love Jace and Clary in the series, my favorites were easily Magnus and Alec. The series opened up this love for reading I had only experienced a couple times before, and never as an adult. I read the first three books in The Mortal Instruments, which was all that was out at the time, and fell in love. I had been obsessed with Twilight, though, and there was a quote on the front of Stephenie Meyer praising the book. I had seen it before in stores, but didn’t know anything about it. I immediately went to the small YA section and City of Bones caught my attention.

They built on to the building, adding a ground-floor section and I even got to be the first person inside when they re-opened! When I was little, my dad would carry me up the steps, but as I got older that stopped. The library that has been around since well before I was born is not wheelchair accessible.

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