Estimated Reading Time 1 Minutes
Publisher: Scholastic Press; Illustrated edition (July 28, 2015)
Paperback : 304 pages
ISBN: 978-0545522267
Thoughts: I didn’t find this story very original but it was interesting and fun. I think predictable stories are fine and this one entertains.
First sentence: Callum Hunt was a legend in his little North Carolina town, but not in a good way.
Favorite Quote From the Book: They all yelled in excitement. Tamara yelled because she was happy. Aaron yelled because he liked it when other people were happy, and Call yelled because he was sure they were going to die.
Summary from Amazon.com:
From New York Times bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes a riveting new series that defies what you think you know about the world of magic.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 . . . From the remarkable imaginations of bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes a heart-stopping, mind-blowing, pulse-pounding plunge into the magical unknown.
