Author: Cassandra Clare and Holly Black
Pages: 299 pages
Book Synopsis:
Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial.
Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail.
All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him.
So he tries his best to do his worst - and fails at failing.
Now the Magisterium awaits him. It's a place that's both sensational and sinister, with dark ties to his past and a twisty path to his future.
The Iron Trial is just the beginning, for the biggest test is still to come . . .
My Review:
First thing you need to know about 'The Iron Trial' by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black is that it is in fact a children's novel. I starting reading this book with that expectation in mind and I was not disappointed.
'The Iron Trial' is about a young man name Call who has been taught his whole life that magic is dangerous and very bad and that he should try with all his might to fail The Iron Trial so that he is not sent to the Magisterium to be trained to become a mage. But somehow by trying to fail Call proves that he should be trained in the Magisterium and he opens himself up to a whole new world full of wonderful and amazing elemental magic.
A lot of people have been comparing this book to 'Harry Potter' however as a huge 'Harry Potter' fan myself I just don't see that at all. The Iron Trial is more about Elemental magic which is the most interesting part of the book if you ask me. Meaning that each and every mage can only specialize in one kind of elemental magic.
I honestly really enjoyed this book and for me personally it was a very short read. The book itself is only 299 pages and very action packed with lots of plot twists. It's everything you would expect from a book written by two of the most amazing authors of our time.
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