God, i hated the footnotes(FN). I can understand for the first 2 or 3 chapters to put FN to make the point. But sometimes the FN weren't making any sense. You put a FN, if u want to say something unrelated to the story/subject you were speaking about but adds some info. Most of the FN were related to what she was saying. And i felt that needing to go to a foot note, every other sentence just to read that she was saying 'not' to the sentence, was dreadful, and that it cost a star from the rating. At least use the FN wisely. Maybe it was to make a point that she had no idea how to use the FN, but i think that if she kinda give up on them, like after 3 chapters she could say i give up putting footnotes, too tedious, would have more effect for what the author meant to come across to us by using the FN. 
 And one other thing, i understand her need to please his parents. But the thing is sometimes i felt that even him was behaving to her like she was inferior to him also. And i felt there were no feelings involved in their relationship in the first place. As in I felt even she didn't love him also. Why would you even accept the marriage in the first place????? She was just mesmerized by him, but not in love with him. Well that made it easier for her to fall for Sam, but i think that she should have had stronger feelings for magnus to have accepted his marriage proposal, which i didn't get that from the book.