here's the plot of Mortal Instruments so you don't have to read it (cassandra clare's shadowhunters)
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here's the plot of Mortal Instruments so you don't have to read it (cassandra clare's shadowhunters)
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The fact that a majority of this book series is spent debating whether or not the main ship is siblings is categorically insane writing
Knowing that it used to be Ginny/Ron fanfiction doesn’t make it less insane, but it makes more sense
I mean its likely cassandra clare has an incest fetish considering this series was based off of/named after her ronXginny fanfics.
I shirt you not. Cassie is effed in the head tbqh
@@bucca2TO BE FAIR… the mortal instruments wasn’t actually inspired by the fanfic mortal instruments. like if u actually read the fic (which you SHOULDN’T. it traumatized me for life) and compare it to her books they don’t actually have anything in common (besides cassies obsession w incestuous relationships). the fic that actually inspired the mortal instruments was the draco trilogy. a lot of the story points were basically the same, and she literally just copy-pasted the falcon backstory from draco to jace asjsgjssgsj
And the other half is spent with her REAL brother trying to hook up with her and then trying to enslave her and her bf
@@jazg3950 oh bby we havent even crossed the bridge yet lol buckle up for the next vid :'''')
Lucius Malfoy’s picture as Valentine is actually so funny
and accurate hhahha
love that lol
I laughed so hard it’s so true 😂😂😂
Controversy aside, yeah kind of a no brainer
And Gilmore Girls Luke and Lorelei as Luke and Jocelyn! 🫶
“I’m 15, I’m at a night club, I can’t dance and I’m following boys with knives” is the new “I’m 27 years old, I have no money and no prospects. I’m already a burden to my parents, and I’m frightened” 😂
This is such a beautiful sentence
This is the best comment i've ever seen
"You're a virgin who CAN'T drive" 😡
every time CC adds a pseudo-incest plotline into a book, i am just a *little* more grateful she's an only child
also alec is like the only valid shadowhunter, poor dude has to spend all of his time cleaning up after his little siblings
ALSO also (potential) hot take: the TV show was better than both the books and the movie, if only because they aged up the characters
Maybe if she HAD siblings she wouldn't write such plot 😂
she has a brother tho-
@@quietlychaoticallyno it wasn’t … LMAO
“She is fifteen years old, at a nightclub. SHE CAN’T DANCE and she is following boys with knives into back rooms, ALONE.” 😂😂😂
That's by the way the exact point where I DNFed this book and decided this is not for me 😂
When I first read it as a 13/14 year old European it didn’t even occur to me that that would be weird. We had almost weekly under 18 parties and you could get into any 18+ club at age 16 as long as you were occupied by someone over 18 with written permission from a parent.
@@ninamarie177 Yeah, that part made sense to me (I'm also European). But following a random dude with knives into a back room? Why would you do that?! 😅
I couldn't stop laughing because, to me, it sounded like being unable to dance in a club was worse than following potential murderers into backrooms. 😂
I wish I had read this when I was young so stuff like that would just fly past me
Jace as a manic pixie dream girl and Clary as a himbo is so good 😂
A little too accurate, insider take
@@nailinthefashion Your make up is stunning 💞
@@SummerAlleriaWindrunner and so is your kindness, rock on 💐
I COMPLETELY forgot that Clary is 15 YEARS OLD in the first book. girl... you got school in the morning...
But hey, her mom was kidnapped
I read these books multiple times in my teenage years and yet somehow the only thing I can clearly remember from City of Bones is when Madame Dorothea told Jace that if he was half as funny as he thought he was, he'd be twice as funny as he is.
And I only remember that because I had to sit down with a pen and paper and convert the whole thing into an equation so I could figure out what she meant. Fully sat there like okay Jace thinks he's 8 funny and half of that is 4, and 4 divided by 2 is 2, therefore Jace is 2 funny and hence, he thinks he's 4 times funnier than he is. I have such a clear memory of doing this and I'd love to know why my brain kept this memory over literally anything else.
You’re amazing 😂
'therefore Jace is 2 funny' is hilarious idk why
Thank you for the math. I didn't get that line either 😅
bye, this is so funny i pissed myself laughing😭😭😭
This made my laugh so hard. Both because of the phrase "therefore Jace is 2 funny" and becasue it is so relatable. The number of times my immersion is broken becuase I have to try and puzzle out the literal meaning of some random throw away line is way more than it should be.
I forgot how UNHINGED Alec is for this entire book. Remember, this is a fully 18 year old man who has beef with a 15 year old 😭😭😭
I mean, 18yos absolutely are unhinged little freaks
LMFAOOO
Ehh... would it be ok if he was 17?😅
Or if he was 17 in the beginning but then turned 18?..
I mean they have 2 years age gap. What wrong with that
to be fair 18 years old isn't really all that grown
When you said “Simon is the only sane person in this nightclub” I thought you were going to say “Simon is the only sane person in this book”, because that’s even more true
I love Simon. Pick the sweet guys for the love of God!
simon was the only reason i kept reading... and then he started two timing girls and i had to stop reading
@@alpaca6462 I don’t even think I got that far 😅
@@AnneleenRoesems I was sticking it out through the incest plotline because at least I had Simon to turn to but then he stated two timing Isabella and the werewolf girl and I was like "I literally have no reason to read this anymore"😭😭
@@alpaca6462 you are absolutely right haha
I still can't believe that Valentine gaslighted Jace and Clary into thinking they were siblings 😭💀
He was diabolical for that, but he was diabolical for a lot of reasons
dude’s a menace
„Rhysand may have invented feminism, Jace invented sarcasm and narcissism“ I legit spat out my drink why is this so funny 😂😂
THIS!
Haha, watching at work and had to pause to compose myself at that line b/c I was silent laughing so hard.
the fact that the entire six books spans only a few months is actually insane
Not me writing a fan fic just to fix the timeline
@@nailinthefashion link?👀
@@patiencekillz oh my god it was a joke PLEASE
@@nailinthefashion oh god sorry tone is hard for me especially on the internet. but i would read a fanfic that tries to fix this godforsaken series… just saying…
@@patiencekillz lmfao the internet is worse than the wild west so i dont blame you.
noted for when my desktop is fixed though...
Clary isn't short for Clarissa, it's short for Clarification Denied.
🤣🤣
@@Zombina638did you sprain your ankle jumping to that conclusion? 😊
this made me laugh out loud Lol
Her writing style makes so much sense when you realise she came from FANFICTION like its wattpad ancestors writing
I feel obliged to say, there was a lot of great fanfic & lots of writing advice on live journal! A lot of it I still read and use.
@@SilentProti yeah but CC's were not good at all, from the writing to the plot and all the plagiarism her fics were a mess.
@@thestorytellouthe shadow hunters is a Harry Potter fan fiction. Valentine=voldemort. Mundane=muggle. Clary=Ginny. Jace=Draco. Etc etc.
@@thedrunkenelfonly the orginal trilogy is anything like Harry Potter
@@thestorytellouyes please let's not gloss over that unhinged phrase
“[Jace] just does shit and it happens to work out because he’s God’s favorite” that is the entire plot of the shadow hunters books😂
Literally all Herondales lmao
Which is actually true in universe 😂 kinda
he's the writer's favourite 😂
I think the "how swiftly you dismiss our love" was meant to be sarcastic in the book but the movie played it straight.
Is he actually mad at this point? It’s a hilarious line, it’s hard to imagine him saying it unironically!
@@Pizzelle he is a little passive aggressive but yeah not like super mad lol
In the book I'm pretty sure it says he's smiling as he says it but in the movie he looked so upset lol
It still felt jokey when I saw it, like obviously he was hurt but he was joking about it
the twist of this book is literally "you had it set to w for waylen, when you should've set it to m for morganstern"
Upside-down oops lol
Like the mermaid man belt from spongebob "just need to turn the M to W for WUMBO" 😂
Stopppp that just made me actually cackle 😂
I told this Plot twist to my brother on the school bus like 10 yrs ago and he still makes fun of me cause I thought it was clever 😭
This made me audibly laugh
Everyone being nice to Clary once they think she’s no longer a threat/love interest to Jace is hilarious
My favorite detail of this series is that Simon canonically loves Milfs (mentioned on page 4) and it is never talked about again. I constantly imagine him wearing one of those "I ❤ Milfs" shirts when it isn't explicitly mentioned otherwise and it makes his scenes so much funnier.
oh my god i can’t believe after a decade of wondering but never wanting to actually read it, i’m finally going to understand what mortal instruments is all about. cari never fails to save the day, clearly
i've got youuuu!
hahah same
Sameee
I meaannn you should definitely read them all, it's great. Chaotic, yes, but it's really great. The last book of this series in particular made me bawl my eyes out hard but it's a rollercoaster across the board
@@AliceLee636tried but the writing is so bad...I was exhausted in the first few pages.
I love that both the movie and the show added a scene where valentine is like “lets tell them theyre siblings but theyre not” like they knew it was a plot point that would drop the audience quick lmao
I mean... the internet was not exactly quiet about it, even before it got picked up for an adaptation. Loll
(It's probably the number one thing people turned to the internet about it for, after reading book 1.)
The photos of OTHER fictional characters as characters in this book is absolutely killing me, never laughed harder. Thank you so much
I thought I was trippin 😂😂
lorelai and luke 😭
Can't believe Clare made her villain's last name Morgenstern, which means "morning star" in German. Who else is known as the "morning star"? Lucifer. Satan. The most widely known fallen angel. I cannot.
If I’m remembering correctly Lucifer and Satan/Sammael are different Fallen Angels. But yes, the name Morgenstern is a reference to Morning Star and Lucifer.
Oh, THAT'S why the Dark Lord in this has such a stupid last name. I was wondering why the author made both her protagonist and villain sound like 35-year-old accountants from Leipzig
@@greenberry6019 lmao as someone living in Leipzig this comment made me laugh
@@rica3947 😂 that's funny. Do you happen to actually know anyone named Morgenstern?
@@greenberry6019hi I'm not from Leipzig but somewhere else in Germany and have to sadly say that this name isn't very common in Germany. 🙁😄 Don't know if the general populace is familiar with the connection with Lucifer but yeah, not common anyhoo
I can't believe I forgot just how dramatic everyone in this series is. Like, it's a fundamental character trait of everyone (except maybe Simon) but it completely left my brain
The show was such a mess because of this I literally said out loud calm down and talk about your feelings multiple times
@@nailinthefashion I didn't watch more than the first episode or so of the show. Now that I think about it , it's probably for that reason
Lmao they did got a LOT better in the later seasons. I personally think first one was the worst, because the hell was that plotline? I even began liking Jace/Clary which made me want to turn the damn laptop off every single time in the first season.
Honestly, I think they were trying not to get cancelled by appealing to teenagers (or what they think teens would enjoy)
nah simon's arguably as dramatic as jace. evidence, he literally storms off and dies.
As someone who knows where this is going, Jace is written like a superhero where the comic book writers cannot agree on a backstory for him so they keep changing what his origin story is supposed to be until he ends up with three sets of parents and a relationship that technically isn't incest (except that it still kind of is, if you think about it). But he was only written by one person, and I'm pretty sure she had all this planned out from the start.
It's bold of you to assume she planned any of this
“as soon as im back on my feet, handsome” and ‘jesus!’ “nope, just me” is also why ive always loved simon. plus im just soft for glasses-wearers but i enjoy he’s not a stereotypical “wimpy” nerd and was actually excited about scary supernatural things happening 🙈
“i know, it’s ridiculous! we wouldve never have all fit 😒 “ 😭 too good
“AND HE KILLED YOUR GRANDPARENTS!” “and you killed my grandparents! 😡 “ beautiful. gotta back him up during his speech!
Simon is consistently the best character across every iteration of this weird ass fantasy thing. Hes the best in the books, the show and the movie
The fact that you used the photo for Clary from the TV show and literally everyone else from the movie is sending me and I keep getting distracted it’s so funny to me
Omg THAT’s what’s been throwing me! I never saw the movie, only the show, so I’ve been squinting at these pictures the whole time like “am I insane? Why do these people look both familiar but unrecognisable?”
@Vulpix298 Jace from the movie is jamie Campbell bower who got very famous recently from stranger things since he plays vecna.
But to me he is the #1 Jace. 13yr old me was obsessed and sooo sad that the rest of the series was never made into film.
Please do this entire series because I so desperately wanted to read them as a teen, but I just COULD NOT deal with Cassandra’s writing style 😅
I wish I realized that I didn't need to read the book before the movie comes out every time sooner cuz I struggled thru the Maze Runner, but for what??? 🥺
I can't with Maas either lmao
same !!!!
It's the same for me, i even bought the series as a whole bc i thought it would motivate me to read more, but nopeee 😭 couldn't get through it
Same. I tried reading it once, but I found the writing to be terrible. Like that horribly awkward way to introduce Isabelle, to let us know she’s his sister. But even worse was when he explains demons to someone who should already know everything about them, even though they’re supposedly alone in order to forcibly let Clary/the reader know about them. What an awful way to information drop, ugh. Also, as Cari rightfully points out, Clary is a 15 y/o in this club (how did she even get there? She can’t legally drive yet. Did someone drop her off? Is Simon 16 and has his own car yet?) But yeah, what’s a 15 y/o doing in a club? Why would you follow someone with a knife? That. That right there is my number one writing pet peeve - forcing a plot along through sheer stupidity. And why would I, the reader, want to know and follow along a stupid MC? Frankly I find it insulting. Sure, the target audience is teens, but just because it’s teens doesn’t mean we should expect them to overlook or accept poor writing and dumb drivel/characters.
Same. I just couldn't.
you are the redheaded girl version of mike’s mic that the world needs
so real for this, i didn't know there was an overlap here i thought it was just me
Two worlds colliding in the best possible way, pop history and bookish past, love it!
I thought I was the only one thinking this 😂😂😂😂😂
Except she's not annoying
@@ChildrenUnder30how dare you insult ser michael microphone
i always thought the plot hole of jace not recognizing his father in the Circle group photo was bc jace was looking at valentine thinking that was michael and no one has any photos of anyone, like the shadow hunters need to carry around photo ID and it would legit solve 85% of their misunderstandings
The side quest for Rat Simon will always stand out as my favourite part of the book. So ridiculous, so out of left field and to top it off escaping on a flying moterbycle. Just 10/10 all round haha
THE TEENAGE DREAM EDIT OH MY GOD I'M DYING
I read this book when I was 13 and hated it but at least it eventually led me to this summary
bahhahaha
@@caricanreadhow did you get this edit I need it pls
@@trishlopez7308 i made it lol this is my video!
@@caricanread it made my day lmao
Finding out the Cassandra Clare originally wrote Ron and Ginny Weasley fanfic puts this entire series into perspective 😬 Anyways, THANK YOU FOR COVERING THIS BOOK! 🫶🏾
Thank you I needed that. My mind is still a mess but at least I can kinda understand hers a bit now
I think my comment was deleted but the gist is Magnus and Alec is the worst ship ever and every single dumb adult person who tells me they love that ship is getting blocked by me. Idc that they're gay, Cassie is not an ally for creating a ship between a teenager and a grandpa. I'm so tired of how popular it is and I have no one to rant to about it.
@@Lenlon703I recommend watching Reads with Rachel's vids about it. She made just such an amazing series explaining exactly how horrible Cassie is and exactly how much Cassie loves brother-sister stuff to this day. Julian and Emma in her new series are sibling coded and I will die on that hill. They literally grew up together and Emma thinks of Julian's siblings as her own siblings.
I think it was Draco and Ginny, not Ron and Ginny 😂
@@sophielem59no it was definitely ron and ginny.
Ok I lost it at “and lucky for us Simon plays D&D” 😂 Cari your retelling is so entertaining.
I just crack up everytime Jace is mentioned and Teenage Dream is played 😂
I absolutely love your plot summaries, they are a balm to soothe my soul
bahahhaha
I literally love every single photo you used for the characters. Like obviously the movie casting for Jace and Simon was pitch perfect, and Luke Danes as Luke with Lorelei as Jocelyn SENT me
The Gerard Way necklace, Gilmore Girls on the wall, Lucius Malfoy's luscious yet atrociously "blonde" locks of hair... this is gonna be a stellar video.
Drawing the parallel to a D&D game honestly makes so much sense
- Clary is the new party member that gets included into an already existing adventuring group of heroes and has to be brought up to date with the current lore
- fantasy creatures like vampires, werewolves and demons
- fantasy races and classes like elves and warlocks
- they all have insanely huge plot armour
- Valentine’s uprising etc is the main story arc and Clary’s motivation (aka backstory) gets roped into the main plot line to explain why she goes along with the party
- they deviate from said main plot all the time to finish more entertaining side plots
- Simon is their favourite NPC that sometimes just appears from nowhere and knows just enough about the lore to be kind of helpful
- all the main characters are the players’ wish fulfilments and just the right kind of edgy loner but also charismatic star of the show and badass fighter
i was sooo obsessed with these books when i was 11/12... cant wait to see wtf i actually read back then. a lot of weird shit happened, especially once Sebastian (?) became a part of the equation 🙃
same tho omfg
same!!! I was obssseesssssed with this series. read all of them. I remember it being SO good…..can only remember one or two plots lmao
It's literally the trashiest thing I've ever read. Can't believe 8 yr old me thought this was a masterpiece lol.
@@caricanread I’m just waiting for Brother Zachariah to enter the picture because
the infernal devices and the last hours >>>>>> the mortal instruments and the dark artifices
i am team "Absolutely not siblings because why would the bad guy actually tell the truth?" Thank you Cari, this is a blessing
I forgot how much I loved early Clary lol just slapping Jace for risking her life
And how narcissistic early Jace was as well like by the mid-end book 1 the plot is already going off the rails but the characterization was so entertaining
I've been reading his books soo long ago and only now I realise that Jace is just the human embodiment of a cat. Doesn't like cucumbers and bergamot, gets grumpy if things don't go his way, is terribly narcissistic, appears and states at you out of nowhere, has a weird focus on dead birds...
THIS IS SO FUN TO WATCH 🛐🛐🛐🛐🛐🛐
-me, a person who has read the whole series and knows everything that's going to happen
YAASSSS!!! 🤭😆🤣😆
I’m addicted to these plot summaries
❤
I know this series is insane, but I just love series with ridiculously complicated plot points. Seriously my favourite guilty pleasure series.
Shadowhunters/TMI 🤝 Once Upon a Time
THANK GOD it's not just me, Simon is the best and I love him. Absolutely carried the book for me, and his misadventures later on are my favorite parts of the series
It’s been a while since I read this series, can’t wait to relive this debut mess!!
truly a wild ride!
the fact she used gilmore girls pictures for luke and jocelyn had me laughing so hard my humor is def broken
Whenever they mention look in the book I always think of Luke from gilmore girls
I laughed out loud reading the description of Simon and Clary’s dancing because this is where Cassie Clare reveals how much older than her readers she is, LOL. I know most people reading this would be like WTF?! But I am almost as old as the author so I immediately recognized this as ‘90s goth dancing.
Anyway, there’s your history lesson for the day, thanks for tuning in.
I was 13 when I read shadowhunters and was obsessed with it till I turned 19. The chock hold mortal instruments had on my teenage years is CRAZY
Fr! I was in the TRENCHES. Like I made my pen into a Stele, I drew runes on myself (RIP to 15 yo me drawing a strength rune on my arm before my grandpas funeral WTF?!)
I hate-love thinking back on it bc I was so fucking embarassing 😭
I think I stopped at like 17 bc I just kinda lost interest in the books, but I binged the TV show like 4 times
I went to her book signing in Florence (2013) I was 14 and obsessed 😭😭😭😂
I'm glad that you mentioned that her books get better as she goes on, because that's so true! I hated TMI, but love every series after SO much more! Especially her historical prequels, she knows how to write compelling historical characters that feel so alive.
She is one of the few authors to make me care about romance 😂
The infernal devices is EONS better than tmi yup
@@ritzcrackerz49211000%. TID is one of my favorite series of all time. TMI doesn’t even compare. Clary drove me absolutely insane as a main character, she was annoying. I adored Tessa though, she made much smarter decisions 😂
@@gracefoltz3780 I especially hate TMI cuz there were nuggets of cool things about the characters but it wasn't explored to the depths of other book protags like Tessa, Lucie or even Emma. Like I love Clarys true power with runes, yet it's barely explored til the last moment
@@gracefoltz3780 yeeees, Clary make me soo mad, and also I cry like a baby with TID, Will story is so fking sad and that last book,,, i think i had a panic attack at some point while crying☠
I read city of bones last year and I was so traumatized I refused to read the rest, so this is now the only way I will see what the rest is about
i've got your back dont worry hahaha
The rest is so good though!
You should try to read all the other series of the shadow hunters world, they are masterpieces.
Don't bother bro they're trash
That’s what happened to me in middle school😭
When you read all of it, when you get to meet Will in the past and it all makes sense 🤣 Cassie just went full ham on the Herondales. It's like: "Yeah, these are the hottest ever, most dramatic people you'll ever meet, who actually believe in the one true love for them and once they fall they fall so hard the freaking earth shatters". And I was and am here for every moment of it 💖
“RHYSAND INVENTED FEMINISM BUT JACE INVENTED SARCASM AND NARCISSISM” THAT IS SO DAMN FUNNY
My sister and I call Jace's personality a "Herondale Complex." It's a martyr complex crossed with the vampire "you have to stay away from me for your own good" complex with a pound of angst and sarcasm mixed in.
But why does calling it the "Herondale Complex" make it so much better when you've read the Infernal Devices and realize that it truly runs in the family? Even Kit gets the complex in The Dark Artifices! And it continued in The Last Hours too 😂😂
Did I read all of these almost religiously when I was younger? Yes.
Am I about to spend 2 hrs of my life watching cari doing a recap? Also yes
Omg I’m exactly in the same boat as you
Yooooo same
congrats you unlocked the memory of 13-year old me not liking Jace becuase he hates bergamot and earl grey tea
You were a real one 😂
I literally hated everyone in these books EXCEPT for Simon
This took me back to how 16 year old me was GAGGED when the sibiling twist dropped. Lmao cassie clare was so silly for that
I love it. I have never wanted to read that series, but I loooove your energy, this mix of kindergarten-teacher easy-to-understand explaining, the girls-on-a-night-out drama and the reporter style not-commenting-your-opinion too much, it's gold. I will watch every single video of this series. Thank you for all the effort 👌❤️
As someone who never watched this movie realizing Jamie Campbell Bower played Jace truly blew my mind right out of my face and onto my phone. JCB how did you end up in this movie 😂
Jamie Campbell... JC... 😮😮😮
He was honestly the best part of the movie
this was arguably his breakout role! terrible movie but jcb was awesome in it
The fact that in multiple book series siblings or parbatai,, who are like siblings anyway, spend so much time kissing or wanting to kiss, like it just doesn't even end after the mortal instruments book series is insane
(I've grown up with the book and tv show and it's so nostalgic lol, even if looking back some of it is not great. Like Alec especially just was always so important to me,, because like first gay character I probably ever read about oops)
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thank god you did this, i never finished the series cause I was weirded out by the incest-ness of the first book, so now I'll know how it ends
i've got youuu!
"Lucky for us, Simon plays DnD"
Anyway the mic rattling constantly is getting unbearable
Read the description 🙃
I had this book 'spoiled' for me by being told about the romance plot line. I didn't have to do mental gymnastics around the 'are they siblings or not?' question. I knew they weren't from the beginning.
i looked up, because i was in denial.
@@violetmiller1766I couldn’t handle the suspense and city of lost souls had just come out when I finished city of bones so I looked it up immediately LOL
Nah bc I was SO HYPED when they were revealed to be siblings bc it would mean the end of the ship (idk I really hated Clace and I still do)
There was never a more disappointed 15 year old than me when I discovered they actually WERENT siblings
I will protect the series with my entire self. Is it awkward at points yes but we don't pick up a ya novel from the early 2000s for some amzing literary masterpiece. Cassies writing definitely improved especially with the unnecessary exposition but i always come back to this series every year. Gotta love we still have 4 more books in the TSC series.
💯 AGREED 🎉❤😂
I started reading this series in middle school and I have suffered from the psychic damage it has given me ever since
Psychic? Like you can predict the future?
"No human would go 'oh look at all these humans.'" Jokes on you my 5 year old does that all the time!😂
you’ve created a monster, cari! i’m 100% addicted to this kind of video. i’ve always wanted to read mortal instruments but never managed to finish the first book and now i can finally know more about the clary and jace drama. i don’t know if you plan on doing more of these in the future, but i highly recommend the “shatter me” series. either way, thank you so much for taking the time to record this, i’m sure it’s gonna be just as insane and fun as acotar
As someone who's read all of Cassandra Clare's books at least 3 times, I enjoyed this video so much 😂 the books are truly unhinged, but that's what makes them so enjoyable as a fantasy series. Thank you for making me laugh so much with this video, can't wait for the rest!
I literally binged your ACOTAR series and Crescent City series in like 3 days 😂 I loved them so much and I was hoping you’d do more and the GASP I made when I saw you’re doing mortal instruments 😭😭 thank you Cari for the funny amazing content 😂
thank yOU!!!!
Have I read TMI books? Yes.
Will I watch anyways? Absolutely.
Keep it up with the looooooong videos Cari! I really love them 🫶🏻
I'm a new mom, and I have been having a lot of fun listening to these plot summaries while I take care of my baby. Plus you are so pretty, and you have the cutest clothes, and you are so funny. Can you please keep doing this style of video?
Simon is 1000% the reason i read these books. He's the BEST!!
I actually lost it at the Parent trap pictures at 1:24:40 . And totally forgot the whole plot of this book except the end, so THANK YOU SO MUCH for covering it.
cari i found you through your ACOTAR summaries, and the fact that you've decided to cover one of my most formative middle school reading experiences??? 10/10 chef's kiss. also the editing in this is stellar
“How many Jonathan Christopher’s can there be?” ….😬😅
Simon deserves SO much better than someone who finds the choice between him and her literal *brother* to be a difficult one
Like... if that's a question she even has to *think* about fora second... you're too good for her bestie!! 😔
God, I hope he ended up getting a happy ending
I quit before finishing the series bc I just couldn't stand it anymore
Simon doesn't end up with Clary, in fact after the second book they just stay friends, but Simon gets other two romantic interests that he purses at the same time(yes, at some point Simon has two girlfriends), one of them was Isabelle and the ending implies that their relationship is going to last.
Spoilers! Please, do not continue if you plan to read the series.
Simon and Clary become parabatai (yes, Simon does become a Shadowhunter). And Simon and Isabelle become engaged.
Yessssss - this book series remains unironically one of my favorites
we were robbed when they cancelled the films!
Agree Jamie Campbell bower 💋👌🏻
@@caricanreadyou are so right cari omg
as someone who read it as a fourteen y/o and watched the movie almost at the same age, the kissing scene was everything to me. my best friend and i played the demi lovato song and cried (not literally) imagining the clace kiss. my cringe teenage years were the best
Exactly, I’ve always loved the movie and was MAD at the tv show because Jamie Campbell Bower was the perfect Jace😭
I remember reading these like a decade ago and just thinking "so is everyone else reading these just cool with this whole possible incest thing?" and being so confused about it 😭I loved the books minus that glaringly huge issue and just decided to just shut down my brain every time that plot point came back up again. I just refused to even acknowledge it. The mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance I was able to display just to read this series was truly amazing 😂. Side note: When this got turned into a movie and I went and saw it in theaters. When it was over I went to the restrooms and there was a girl in there absolutely SOBBING to her mother about how "They fucking ruined it mom. There's no hope for a sequel. It's RUINED". Her poor mom had no idea what tf to say 😭The girl wasn't wrong tho.
Aww that poor girl 😭
I’m shadow hunter trash. I own every book. I know they are bad but that’s why i love them. I love how stupid clary is and the poorly written party scenes. I read 19 of them in a month because I wanted to reread everything in order before reading chain of iron. I have gone into mourning because of this series. I wore white for a week because every time I thought about a certain death I couldn’t stop crying. I love these books
Clary’s impulsivity and Jace’s sarcasm tried to end me on multiple occasions when reading this book back in the day. Can’t wait for the summary 😂 also to my understanding Jocelyn and Luke weren’t in a relationship at all at the beginning? They didn’t get together until later right ?
Yess luke was just protecting and helping Jocelyn and Clary
Luke liked Jocelyn. Jocelyn liked Luke but wasn’t ready for a relationship or anything like that. So they’re friends.
yeah i was confused too
I don't think they officially were together until the end of book 3 when Jocelyn wakes up and is like "do I or do I not" to Whatsherface WhowaspreviouslyaHerondale.
“jace is a manic pixie dream girl and clary is a himbo” 😭😭😭😭😭
this video is a godsend. i wanted to reread the series, since it was my whole personality when i was like 14 to 16 and i don't remember anything. however, i know it was objectively bad and i didn't wanna ruin the nostalgia i have for them, so this is literally perfect.
is that a gerard way necklace?? immediately subscribed.
I can’t believe How OBSESSED I was with this series like 10+ years ago. I tried to reread as a adult and I just couldn’t. Thank you for all you do 😅
This book series is oddly enough my guilty pleasure. My friends and I LOVED it when we were around 11-12 years old, and then reread almost ALL the books during the pandemic, because we had nothing better to do. I'm ashamed to admit I can probably recite the entire plot (prequels included) in my sleep, so I'm very excited about your plot summary!
GIRL HOW DID YOU KNOW I NEEDED THIS? 😍
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!!!AGREED!! thankyou love your tellings!
First time I read this series I was prefaced with the fact that they ARE NOT siblings, so I don’t think I ever read it in a way where I was in that weird limbo…But it’s sooo weird, esp w Sebastian later on. Anyways, can’t wait for the rest of your videos like this for the other books!!! And maybe even the other series too 🤪
I want the infernal devices and the last hours summaries because the mortal instruments is meh
Finally someone who is as brainrotted about the "How swiftky you dismiss our love" scene, it is genuinely the funniest scene ive ever watched
this is so very random but your plot videos are the perfect length for me to fold dumplings too so I get excited for them because it means ill have a bunch of frozen dumplings for the next month.
omg jealous tho hahha love me a dumpling!
These plot summaries are truly the best thing ever haha
Makes my drive home in traffic so much better
And Luke and Lorelai being up there is *chef's kiss*
the fact that cari starts this video of with 'if you just need something in the background while you clean' is crazy because I kinda strictly watch forget the plot while I clean its just the perfect cleaning videos I cant explain it so thank you for helping me clean my room cari
Members of the Circle were all something under 40 or slightly over at the time of Clary discovering the Shadow world👀 Maryse, Robert, Hodge, Jocelyn and Luke all followed Valentine who was basically like an older classmate of theirs in their late teens and early twenties. It was weird to me that neither in the movie nor the series did they get the cast ages right for all of them😅
Your visual aids are always so on point in these kinds of videos. I love the inclusion of Luke & Lorelai.
2+ hours just for book 1?? Oh man we are in for a journey! Definitely suggest combining some of the later books into the same video. I enjoy every minute of these recap videos!
My mom bought me this book bc it was 50% off at target and then handed it to my 11-yo self saying: “it was on the shelf next to Twilight, so if it gets inappropriate stop reading it.” Needless to say I did not- I was fully obsessed until I read the last book and thought “wait, are these actually really bad?” I felt kinda gaslit lmao
Be Jace 🙂
Be raised by your mentally abusive father 🙃
Your father dies 😭
Eight years later you fall in love with a sassy ginger 🙂
Your father is alive 😀
He's her father too 😢
to be continued. . .