spoiler visualizarheliogabalus 28/01/2021
Resenha Super Longa TM
O livro não atingiu as expectativas que todo o booktwitter criou em mim durante mais de um ano, mas foi melhor do que eu esperava no jeitinho dele. Lacrimejei em quase todos os contos e chorei meu coração pra fora no conto que o Raphael aparece, porque, prioridades. Achei a escrita bem exagerada, quase cansativa. Qual a necessidade de usar tanta metáfora e poetizar o ambiente a cada duas linhas de diálogos? Eu não quero saber que os olhos da Tessa estavam cinzas como o céu de Londres no outono de uma quarta-feira do ano de mil oitocentos e bolinhas, e que o vento que soprou nas árvores de jacarandá era suave porque o verão estava chegando e o inverno ia demorar pra voltar (duh), e que o som da risada de fulano era como sinos soando no reino das fadas e blá blá. Sem falar que muitas vezes, após mudar uma cena, tinha linhas e linhas recontando exatamente o que aconteceu nas cenas passadas, como se as cenas do mesmo conto tivessem sido escritas separadas e depois coladas juntas. Outro problema que atrapalhou um pouco minha leitura foi que alguns contos tinham um começo desnecessariamente confuso. Já é difícil começar um conto em um ambiente totalmente diferente do anterior, o mínimo esperado era que os primeiros parágrafos fossem mais atrativos.
Ponto positivo: RAPHAEL SANTIAGO! Um conto inteiro do nosso vampiro favorito sendo adorável do jeito que só ele sabe ser, além de várias menções afetuosas a ele ao longo do livro todo, o que é o MÍNIMO que ele merece depois daquela morte ridícula (não, eu nunca vou parar de reclamar disso).
Fiquei surpresa com o quanto eu gostei da história da Celine, ela foi uma personagem muito viva com a qual eu consegui me identificar, deixou um gostinho de quero mais (provavelmente não vou ter, mas eu queria )': )
Quick disclaimer: dizem que os Herondales são dramáticos, mas vocês viram James eu-me-permiti-ser-feliz-com-o-amor-da-minha-vida-depois-de-um-século-e-por-isso-deixei-a-Rosemary-morrer Carstairs? James tudo-de-ruim-que-acontecer-eu-vou-dizer-que-é-culpa-minha-antes-que-outro-bobo-auto-sabotador-faça Carstairs???
Concluindo, as histórias me fizeram rir (muito), chorar, amassaram meu coração, mas também deixaram ele quentinho, o pacote completo. Vale muito a pena reler dez, cinquenta vezes. Amo esses personagens como se fossem minha família do coração e eles carregam todo esse universo nas costas.
Agora, algumas das minhas passagens favoritas (das que eu lembrei de marcar) pra eu entrar aqui e reler sempre que der saudades:
"I spend every day grateful that you exist and are in the world. And as long as you live, we keep Will alive."
"My Tessa, there will be no separation between us. Where you are, I am. Where you are, Will is. Whatever else may be, I remain always, your Jem."
"The ice in Raphael's voice could have laid the whole New York City under frost for a week in midsummer.
- Magnus invented your Portals, not that he receives any credit for it from Shadowhunters. He is one of the most powerful warlocks in the world, and so tenderhearted he rushes to the aid of vicious killers. He is the best Downworld has to offer."
"- Hope is for fools. I will meet you tomorrow night, but remember this, Silent Brother - Raphael said - Hate like that does not fade. The work of the Circle is not done yet. The Morgenstern legacy will claim more victims. I do not intend to be one of them."
"Do I want to come in a bro road trip with you, rushing to the aid of gorgeous damsel-in-distress Jem I'd-love-to-climb-'em Carstairs?"
"- I am very curious to see how the hottest Shadowhunter in the world is doing.
- I'm great - said Jace.
- Nobody's talking about you, Jason. Have you heard the phrase 'Tall, dark and handsome'?
- Sounds like an old-fashioned saying. Sounds like something people used to say before I was born."
"Tessa shut her book and reached out to him. She was kneeling on the bed and he was standing beside it, and the world was filled with missed chances and heartbreak, but then there was Tessa. Tessa kissed him and he felt her grin against his mouth.
- Brother Snackariah. Come here."
" - Well, - Lily said - I was happy for 54 years. That's more the most people get. Now there's the clan to look after, like Raphael would have wanted. The night we knew he was gone, and every night since, I watch my vampires in the home he guarded. I watch the mundanes in this streets he loved. Everyone of them looks like a child I should help, a possibility for a future I wasn't able to imagine. Everyone of them seems precious, worth defending, worth the world. Everyone of them is Raphael."
"What are you looking at, you delicious peanut-butter-and-Jem sandwich?"
"- If my words comforted you, we are even.- Jem said -Your voice is the music I love best in all the world.
- We do love an eloquent babe. - said Lily"
"- How is Magnus? Doing well? Dressing, uh, uniquely?
- Still gorgeous - Alec said, defiantly."
"Seeing Magnus experience the instant instinctive love as Alex had with Max, as Alec learned with Rafael the slow, sweet, and conscious way of love that Magnus had learned with Max. Opening a new door in their familiar beloved home, as if it had always been there."
"- That hellborn brat - Magnus muttered. - I read him eight stories.
- Magnus!
- What, I can call him that. It's you that can't call him that, because it's infernally insensitive."
"No one could get into Idris and none could get out.
- What do you think they're eating? - Ty asked Livvy.
- Each other, hopefully."
"Jem got up and went over to Tessa. He knelt down in front of her and laid his head against her belly.
- Hello there, Wilhelmina Yiqiang Ke Carstairs. Little Mina. You are welcome, little Mina, my heart. We are waiting for you in joy and hope and love."
"- But she's so beautiful - Jem said helplessly.
- And where might she get that from? I love you forever, James Carstairs - said Tessa - but you are a fool."
"Jem crept up to Mina's room, quiet so as not to wake Kit and to let Tessa go back to sleep. When he reached her room, though, he saw Kit was awake. Kit was already in the baby's room, with Mina in his arms.
- Hey - Kit said to the baby, speaking seriously as if to a teammate. - C'mon, do me a solid, will you, Min? You've been waiking them up all week. I bet they're tired."
"- It's our consul! - Said the werewolf girl.
- He's not technically ours. - said the faerie boy - He belongs to the Shadowhunters who aren't assholes. Maia is your leader and King Kieran is mine." (KING KIERAN I'M WEEPING. I MISS HIM SO BAD.)
"- There is never any need to worry, Mina mine. - said Jem - Silly mellon."
"Mina and I have journeyed far, and have returned bearing love and baked goods. (...) Mina was much admired in town."
"- We want you to stay, and to know that the choice is entirely yours, and we wanted to show you there is nothing in this house more precious to us than you.
So Kit stayed."
"My father, my sister, my son. They were all mine. And yet, they all wanted you more. Valentine's sweet boy. Clary's golden prince. Ash's guardian angel."
"We were both trained by Valentine. But I tried harder, because I loved my father and I wanted to please him so bad. Then there was Robert and Maryse and Isabelle and Alec, every one of them teaching me whatever they knew, so I could protect myself. Because they loved me, I was better than Sebastian. I was better."
"Isabelle is the love of my life, but her seven-layer dip is like the nine circles of hell. Don't tell her I said that! Are you telling her literally while you are on the phone with me? You are so dead."
"- If you are asking whether I'm working out my emotional pain through a punishing physical regimen - said Kit - my answer is a manly yes."
"- Don't be grateful - Jem murmured into the wild gold of Kit's hair - where there is love, there is no need for gratitude. And I love you.
Jem felt tears drop hot into the curve of his neck. He held Kit safe in his arms, until his tears were dry and they could both pretend he had not wept. He held Kit until Church growled jealously and tried to squirm in between them.
- Dumb cat - Kit muttered."
"Rosemary child was Jem's now."
"Will, my Will. You would be so proud.
Jem went inside to his wife and his baby and his boy, to his long-awaited home. This evening the whole sky was bronze, as if to summon wicked powers."