Spoilers from previous books are possible
"Jace is now a servant
of evil, bound for all eternity to Sebastian. Only a small band of
Shadowhunters believe he can be saved. To do this they must defy the
Clave. And they must act without Clary. For Clary is playing a dangerous
game utterly alone. The price of losing is not just her own life, but
Jace's soul.
Clary is willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost?
What price is too high to pay, even for love?" taken from Goodreads
Where do I begin with this wonderful book......
Firstly the
Cover, I really like this and think the models on the front really
capture the likeness's of Clary and Jace, and if I didn't know of the
books would of felt inclined to pick the book up just on the cover
alone.
We start off immediately where City of Fallen Angels
ended, in this the 5th book of her Mortal Instruments series but saying
that all of Cassie Clare's Mortal Instruments book are excellent stand
alone books, with cliff hangers if you want to read just one.
In
these books, for anyone that hasn't read the previous books in the Mortal
Instruments series, we have Magic, Werewolves, faeries, Warlocks, all
set in modern day America, plus various European countries.
Also Young love, Mature love, Gay love, and even a bit of incest, but
these are just a tiny part of this 539 page book.
I can't tell
you anything of the book in any great detail, as I'd be giving you
spoilers and literally this is such an action packed book, every couple
of pages would bring a spoiler!!! We get to see more of the characters
in depth, and find out why some are as they are nowadays. We also see
more of Jocelyn in this book and we have some new characters.
Cassie has also written them in a more adult theme, and
there were some scenes that made me go Oooohhhh!!!! Maia, Alec and Magnus,
will never be quite the same in my eyes.
To me, Clary is my daughter
District YA, Jace is her partner and Simon our next door neighbour
(although I'd like Simon to be her partner) and I of course am Jocelyn. I
read the stories and we become them, I'd love to give you a story that I
can liken from my past that would emulate their story, but alas we
really never had that much excitement. Mind you having said that when I
was 10, we went to live in Australia and en route we stopped in Cairo, we
were warned before leaving the ship on no account to go to the Cairo
museum as in the last couple of months before we arrived, two people had
been taken to the Museum by fake policeman and been murdered. I was
sitting in an outdoor cafe with my parents and little brother when a
policeman came up and started to speak in very good English, and said he
would like to show us around the Cairo Museum!!!! My Dad told him to
push off, with that a cab pulled up and the Policeman grabbed my Mums
arm and tried to get her into the cab, with the cab driver trying to
push my brother and myself into the back on the other side!!!! My Dad
did no more than punch the Policeman as hard as he could in the face,
grabbed my little brother and told us too run, run, run. I had my Mums
hand and we could of won the Olympics, we ran so fast. We had a number
of people running after us, police, cab driver and a number of Egyptian
men, but we got to the boat, and they were shouting and screaming at
us.... Luckily the boat left a couple of hours later, and these men
stayed on the quayside until we left. My Dad would definitely of been
Nephilim. But that is the wonderful thing with Cassie, she writes so
descriptively and with such enthusiasm that that you do become the
characters or at the very least find ways to relate to them.
I'm going to meet Cassie on the 26th May, and
really can't wait to tell her what a superb writer she is, I think she
would be my perfect dinner companion, and I want to know if in real life
she has as much energy as her characters. The only thing that would
make her books better is if she brought them out chapter by chapter, so
we didn't have to wait another year for the next edition.
In my
opinion The Mortal Instrument books are my favourite books of all time,
and she deals with various issues in such an enlightened way.
Rating 5 Out Of 5
Published In The UK By
Walker Books
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Review By SUE