City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments) (edition 2012)

This book started out slow for me. I don't know if that is because it has been nearly a year since I read City of Glass so it took me a bit to get back into it, or if it really was a slow beginning.

By the middle of the book though, I was really into it again and the ending blew me away. I hate that I have to wait months for book five to be released! ( )

I was so excited about this book. Majorly excited. I love the series. I love Cassandra Clare's writing. Ok, scratch that because I loathed her book Clockwork Angel. I wasn't sure how things were going to go with the novel but was looking forward to reading more about Clary and Jace...especially Jace LOL.

I bought the book in mobi format and started reading it yesterday. I didn't pay attention to far I had got into it but just kept waiting for something to happen and I guess was expecting the novel to be as dazzling and suspenseful as the rest. Instead it was very much relationship orientated (which isn't a bad thing)but lacked little else. There just seemed no substance and the ending, well it was bad. I actually had to turn the last remainding pages to work out if there was more. I mean, ending it there? Yes, it is probably an indication that there is another in the works but it just left it hanging and the book lacked the same lustre the other three had.

Very disappointing, although it has made me want to read the rest again. Would I read a fifth one? Probably, just to see what happens next. Sadly, this novel had a plot that was barely held together and was an end to no means. Too many questions were left unanswered.

Loved it, couldn't put it down. Read it in 6 hours. The action never stops in this one, character development was delightful. These just keep getting better. ( )

As happy as I was that the Mortal Instruments series was continuing... I would've prefered that it hadn't. Because this book? Was painful. I am usually able to finish books quickly but this one drug on and on and on to the point where I just wanted to give up.

I had a hard time from the very beginning understanding exactly what was going on. There wasn't a clear plot and even if the author was attempting to be vague and have it be a surprise or whatnot, she failed miserably. The basis of the book solely revolved around Jace and Clary's relationship problems, but even those weren't clear. And it was beyond irritating that Jace was clearly having issues and yet he refused to talk to Clary about it. And him continuing to say 'I love you but I can't be with you, but lets kiss and make out but... now I can't look at you. Get away from me.' That repeated about 5 times kinda made me want to rip his face off.

And then the ending?! Come on. Yeah, we're going to leave Jace up on the roof alone with the kind of not so dead guy but everything's going to be fine because obviously things went perfect the FIRST time they killed him. Stupid. It was like a bad horror movie where the dumb blonde decides to go down to see what the chainsaw-like noise is in the dark basement even though the light won't turn on and she can't be bothered to find a flashlight.

I loved the first three of the Mortal Instruments but was seriously disappointed in this one. The series would've been better off left as it was in the third book. ( )

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