No this is so real with Cassandra Clare specifically. I LOVED the shadowhunter series. Loved them! I was in deep with those books! And then I got to about 18 and realized that they were insane and not actually very good at all. I still (mostly) support The Infernal Devices but the rest are all wildly problematic, but realizing that SUCKED.
Okay I read this book in a book club sophomore year of high school and ??? I don’t remember it being that bad. Now I’m really tempted to reread it because I keep seeing it mentioned as just terrible and awful.