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Book Description
To save her mother's life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral
home of the Shadowhunters -- never mind that enter-ing the city without ...
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Moirne Stark said on Mar 27, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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I love this book
The city of glass is a great book; the way cassandra clare writes her books is complete bliss to the imagination. At first I thohght the book was boring but after reading it I had to read the whole series I extremely recommend this book to any fans of fairy tales, downworlders and demons vs angels ... (continue)
Mario64 14 said on May 15, 2012 | Add your feedback
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The final and most enthralling book amongst all of the Mortal Instruments Trilogy. As soon as I saw that it was on the shelf at the local bookstore, my eyes stuck onto it like super glue and, I must say, I am ANYTHING but disappointed about this book.
It's an epic conclusion and I couldn't ask for ... (continue)
Gaberel Zavafeghn said on Nov 28, 2010 about the Audio CD edition | Add your feedback
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noodlecup said on Aug 17, 2010 | Add your feedback
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Hallgerðr said on Jun 16, 2010 about the Audio CD edition | Add your feedback
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- Others 576 Pages
- ISBN-10: 1416972250
- ISBN-13: 9781416972259
- Publisher: McElderry
- Pub date: Aug 03, 2010
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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Fell flat
Before I start critiquing, I want to say that I enjoyed this book. I was pretty much glued to it for a day, so it is a page turner. I did have problems with it that prevent me from giving it a higher rating though.
Clare was very repetitive, which I partly attribute to bad editing. I got very ann ... (continue)
Before I start critiquing, I want to say that I enjoyed this book. I was pretty much glued to it for a day, so it is a page turner. I did have problems with it that prevent me from giving it a higher rating though.
Clare was very repetitive, which I partly attribute to bad editing. I got very annoyed with Clary and Jace because of it. One scene of over angsty declarations of love would have been quite enough, but I lost count of how many were actually in this book. It was hard to believe that a month was enough time for them to fall madly in love with each other. It seemed more like physical attraction to me.
I started disliking Clary's character more than ever because of her rash decisions. She always got herself into trouble and had to be rescued. It's a problem when the main characters of your story are annoying. The weird love entanglements, particularly with Simon, were just out of place.
The previous two books had a surprise factor, but I saw the "twist" coming far in advance. Clare's clues were too obvious and the ending was predictable. But what really ticked me off was one particular death that was absolutely unnecessary. It made me angry that Clare chose this person to die when she could have easily picked someone else less like-able.
I don't know if I'm being too hard on this book. I guess I expected more and it's frustrating because it could have been great with some changes. Happy endings are good, but this one was too fairy tale. A touch of tragedy would have improved it. I may not agree with Clare's choices, but parts of the story were great and that redeemed it a bit for me.
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