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No man chooses evil because it is evil.
He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
- Mary Wollstonecraft  Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
-William Shakespeare,Love's Labour's Lost I love you as one loves certain dark things
-Pablo Neruda, "Sonnet XVII" All changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
-William Butler Yeats, "Easter, 1916" | |
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For Nao,
Tim, David,
and Ben | |
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"How much longer will the verdict take, do you think?" Clary asked. - Chapter 1 Simon stood and stared numbly at the front door of his house. - Prologue | |
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(p 155)
Simon, I've been trying to call you, bit it seems like
your phone is turned off. I don't know where your are
right now. I don't know if Clary's already told you
what happened tonight. But I have to go to Magnus's
and I'd really like you to be there.
I'm never scared, but I'm scared for Jace. I'm scared
for my brother. I never ask you for anything, Simon,
but I'm asking you now. Please come.
Isabelle. (p 379)
Now this is the Law of the Jungle,
as old and as true as the sky,
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper,
but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk,
the Law runneth forward and back;
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf,
and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack. (p 388-389)
To mirror when she straightaway
And did her ebon hair array
And for her gown she much did pay.
Then down she walked along the street,
A handsome lad she chanced to meet,
And sore by dawn were her dainty feet,
But all the boys were gay. (p 432)
Black for hunting through the night
For death and sorrow, the color's white.
Gold for a bride in her wedding gown,
And red to call enchantment down." | |
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What price is too high to pay, even for love? When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith’s magic has bound her beloved Jace together with her evil brother Sebastian, and that Jace has become a servant of evil. The Clave is out to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy without destroying the other. As Alec, Magnus, Simon, and Isabelle wheedle and bargain with Seelies, demons, and the merciless Iron Sisters to try to save Jace, Clary plays a dangerous game of her own. The price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace’s soul. She’s willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost?
Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal | |
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I am not going to say much bad about it other then, I couldn’t get into it. It does end with it being set up for her to write a sixth book should she choose, but honestly I hope she doesn’t go in that direction. Sometimes, it’s best to leave a series ended. I hope that is the case with this series.
{reason for reading} - I read this book because I had read the previous four. I think they were well written, just not very attention grabbing. I enjoyed the first three more then the last two. I don’t know how many other people might view it that way, but that is the way it turned out being with me. (