By Cassandra Clare
Amid the chaos of war, the Shadowhunters must decide to fight with the vampires, werewolves and other Downworlders – or against them.
Meanwhile, Jace and Clary have their own decision to make: should they pursue the love they know is forbidden?
Official Summary
Book number three!
Okay so let’s start with Jace and Clary’s relationship. I really couldn’t stand this relationship in this book. It really annoyed me how they kept of saying they couldn’t control it, but they could, they just had to keep their tongues in their mouths! So yeah they kept kissing even though they thought they were brother and sister. That did annoy me.
Speaking of relationships Magnus and Alec! Alec finally started to tell people about their relationship! Even though Magnus sort of forced his hand. Although I don’t blame Magnus I wouldn’t want to be kept a secret.
Luke, he wasn’t all that impressive in the first two books. However, in this book I found myself enjoying him as a character, he is sweet and compassionate. I like how nice he is especially to Clary, Simon and Jace. It was nice finding out more about him and getting to meet his sister.
For the first time, I didn’t hate Simon Lewis. I know I’m just as surprised. I think it is because in this book he has stopped trying so hard to get Clary’s attention. Or maybe it was just because he was in jail for half the book and we didn’t see him that much. Although I will say I had so much more respect for Simon when he decided to sacrifice himself to Raphel.
Jace, I feel like in this book I finally understood him, I never really clicked with him before. I think I just felt so bad for him, the constant back and forth. I loved the character development. I loved how he started caring more for his friends and family and even his own life and less for Valintine.
Valintine Morgenstern, I found this villain to be pretty well written. He was amazing, evil yes, but still amazing. You have to hand it to him; he is an amazing planner. He is somehow ten steps ahead of everyone.
Then that leaves Clary, she was better in this book than the last one. Although I do still have a few complaints. First her every thought was about how much she missed or wanted her brother. Another thing was her being so mean to her mother. Sure her mother lied to her but she did it to protect her. Don’t get me wrong I think Clary had every reason to be mad, but you can be mad without being mean. Last thing that rubbed me the wrong way was Clary going to Isabelle with the letter and asking her to go after Jace. Clary herself said it was a suicide mission, so why guilt trip poor Isabelle into going.
Then one last thing that honestly just made me laugh, so Clary can make brand new runes and what can Jace do? He can jump really high. I don’t know I found it funny.
Overall I enjoyed the book it was a fun read. This book so far is my favourite in the series. I would recommend it.
Author: Cassandra Clare- ISBN:26 28 30 29 37- Publisher: Walker Books Ltd- Pages: 496- Source: Private Copy.
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About The Author
Author Bio from the Author’s Site
Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Teheran, Iran and spent much of her childhood travelling the world with her family, including one trek through the Himalayas as a toddler where she spent a month living in her father’s backpack. She lived in France, England, and Switzerland before she was ten years old.
Since her family moved around so much, she found familiarity in books and went everywhere with a book under her arm. She spent her high school years in Los Angeles where she used to write stories to amuse her classmates, including an epic novel called “The Beautiful Cassandra” based on a Jane Austen short story of the same name (and which later inspired her current pen name).
After college, Cassie lived in Los Angeles and New York where she worked at various entertainment magazines and even some rather suspect tabloids where she reported on Brad and Angelina’s world travels and Britney Spears’ wardrobe malfunctions. She started working on her YA novel, City of Bones, in 2004, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan, her favourite city. She turned to writing fantasy fiction full time in 2006 and hopes never to have to write about Paris Hilton again.
Cassie’s first professional writing sale was a short story called “The Girl’s Guide to Defeating the Dark Lord” in a Baen anthology of humor fantasy. Cassie hates working at home alone because she always gets distracted by reality TV shows and the antics of her two cats, so she usually sets out to write in local coffee shops and restaurants. She likes to work in the company of her friends, who see that she sticks to her deadlines.
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