Originally read in June 2013 reread again in February 2014.
My feelings about City of Fallen Angels – not only finding
out about the book, but after reading it – can be summed up into this one GIF:
After the way City of Glass ended I was kind of pissed to
find out there were two – soon to be three – more books. Um…Cassandra Clare,
there’s these things called happy endings in which the characters live happily
ever after. Nothing else happens to them, and after the shit you put Clary and
the gang through – don’t you think they deserve it? So what could you possibly
have in store for them now?
*reads*
Clary and Jace are together. Simon is dating not only
Isabelle but Maia as well. Jocelyn and Luke are getting married. Alec is on
vacation with Magnus and his parents seem to be okay with it. Okay, that’s not bad, but are you
really wasting my time with this? You could have just written a novella and
called it a day.
*continues to read*
Simon almost gets abducted twice. Jace is having dreams
where he kills Clary constantly. Eventually that transpires to the waking
world, causing him to spend less time with her. She thinks he’s trying to break
up with her. The Seelie Queen shows up and causes more mayhem just because she
could. Okay, see now this is
interesting in a psychotic way. What the hell is going on Jace? I mean,
seriously, like I said above, after everything they went through you’re going
to place all this stress and strain on their relationship? Why??
But, if anything, Clare is an equal opportunist when it
comes to torturing relationships. Isabelle and Maia find out about each other.
Oh, and the guy who Turned Maia shows up to make sure Simon is adjusting to
life as a vampire – and also to check on Maia. And Magnus’ ex-girlfriend drags
back in the one happy couple that isn’t even in New York, the vampire Camille that
causes even more problems.
So, eventually it is revealed what is causing the bad dreams
that Jace has been having. Apparently, when Jace was killed and then brought
back to life by the Angel Raziel it broke the protection spells that were
placed on him when he was a baby. These spells protected him from possession or
persuasion by demons and warlocks. And the person who was sending these dreams
to him turns out to be Lilith the baddest bitch ever.
I’ll admit when I first found out it was Lilith I was
shocked. During the whole book I kept thinking that it was Sebastian – aka
Clary’s brother Jonathon – who was sending these dreams to him. But…I guess in
a way that it was him too since the whole reason Lilith was sending him the
dreams was so she could bring Jonathon back to life.
In the end, the only issue I really had with this book was
the character of Jace. I understood him in the first three books – he has daddy
issues, the love of his life is really his sister, etc. – but in this book I
wanted to shake him. As this ultimate Shadowhunter that he always claims
himself to be, he’s really daft. I mean, he keeps pushing Clary away, even
though she’s going to figure out that something is wrong with him. And then
when he does figure out that the
dreams he’s been having are being sent to him by a demon, he has a dream and
then goes a head and does what the ‘dream Max’ tells him to do. Seriously? What. An. Idiot.
Final Rating: 4 out of 5 stars. As much as I was shocked and
appalled to find out that the first three books weren’t it for this series, it
got really interesting there at the end. Especially the ending! Holy crap!! I
also liked seeing the development of Alec and Clary’s relationship. For a guy
who hated her – only because he was in love with Jace – they have really become
good friends.
Bookshelf worthy? Still own the boxed set of the first five
books so…
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