Steve Review: City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
Source: Purchased
Book Summary:
To save her mother’s life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters — never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and Simon has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunters, who are deeply suspicious of a vampire who can withstand sunlight.
As Clary uncovers more about her family’s past, she finds an ally in mysterious Shadow-hunter Sebastian. With Valentine mustering the full force of his power to destroy all Shadow-hunters forever, their only chance to defeat him is to fight alongside their eternal enemies. But can Downworlders and Shadowhunters put aside their hatred to work together? While Jace realizes exactly how much he’s willing to risk for Clary, can she harness her new found powers to help save the Glass City — whatever the cost?
Love is a mortal sin and the secrets of the past prove deadly as Clary and Jace face down Valentine in the final installment of the New York Times bestselling trilogy The Mortal Instruments.
Steve Review:
At long last, the final book in this trilogy! But wait, rumor has it there is a spin off series coming out?! wtf. Yep, rumor confirmed, Shanyn picked me up a copy of the first book in the new Infernal Devices trilogy “Clockwork Angel” at BEA. While that was super nice of her, and I will undoubtedly read it, I’m gonna have to bitch to you guys for a minute:
PS: Looking back, this sounded quite harsh towards Ms. Clare and her series. I thoroughly enjoyed this series and will very likely read all of the next trilogy as well (apparently I’m part of the problem feeding the series machine? lol). It was by no means a personal attack, more of a general comment on a lot of the literature coming out in the past five or so years. If you guys have a non-series book suggestion, lay it on me, I’d love to read something that has all the elements needed for great literature in between 2 book covers instead of the 10-14 covers it has been taking recently to enclose “amazing reads”. And don’t forget about my question in the book cover section, I truly am curious!
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I have to agree with you about the series rant. I think the waiting is the hardest part. You get so emotionally invested and you have to wait for the sequels and the trilogies and about seven more books after that to get to know how it truly ends – and most of the time, there's only one book published a year. I sometimes wonder if I'll live to see the end of the of some of the series that I read!
Great review, though. I'm a huge fan of this trilogy and I'm looking forward to reading Clockwork Angel.
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The Mortal Instruments series is by far my favorite series. The character on the front is Sebastian. I was actually thrilled to find out there would be a fourth book in this series(City of Fallen Angels-Feb.2011) and a new prequel(Infernal Devices-Clockwork Angel-Aug. 2010).
I completely understand what you mean about single books though. I will admit that the majority of the books on my shelves are series or will be series. Sometimes it bothers me, but if it's a series I really love, I'm usually happy that the characters journeys are continuing on.
Great review!
I'm sorry I lied, City of Fallen Angels will be out in March, not Feburary.
I feel your pain. I get so frustrated reading an awesome book only to find out it's part of a series and the rest aren't out yet!
Ugh! I try so hard to wait until they're all out so I don't have to wait, but it's not going to happen with Clockwork Angel or Fallen Angels b/c I love this series so much.
Awesome review.
Series can be frustrating, although I am a fan of them overall, as long as they don't seem like a ploy to maintain a fan base. (I actually wrote a guest post about series for The Serpentine Library that will be posted on her blog next week.) Anyway, Cassie is one of my favorite YA authors and I love her books so far. Her plots are so layered and complicated, and need 3+ books to sort through it all, IMO. (:
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