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Sixteen-year-old Clary continues trying to make sense of the swiftly changing events and relationships in her life as she becomes further involved with the Shadowhunters and their pursuit of demons and discovers some terrifying truths about her parents, her brother Jace, and her boyfriend Simon.
I read this all in one day and it looks like I never even marked it as "currently reading". I was hooked, and couldn't put it down! If it hadn't been 3:30am I would've started the next one immediately. I'm waiting to find out that Jace and Clary aren't proper siblings for some reason and I have several theories on the matter. I noticed that they both have star shaped scars on their shoulder blades. Something different runs through Jace's veins according to the fairy queen. The inquisitor knew something was up, but in dramatic information teasing fasion, died before we could find out. Valentine was, I'm sure, about to say "I didn't mean Jace" when he told Clary about her mother's first child. I could complain that these tactics are a bit contrived but they're working on me and I'm anxious to read the next book in the series. ( )
I was bored. Just SO incredibly bored. I wouldn't have finished this book if it wasn't for a reading challenge. I'm sick of the angsty YA fiction and this one in particular with the "oooh I lurve my sibling, but I know I shouldn't" when really it's so obvious that eventualy there is going to be a reveal that they aren't related. and the "oooh my best friend is in love with me so I"m going to string him along"? Gah this book and the writing was awful. But most of all naming the main character Clary? Obviously the author is using herself as the main character. the name is just driving me around the bend. Use some creativity for heaven sake. At the VERY least when naming the main character. So why did I give this 2 stars instead of one? Because I'm a glutton for punishment and need to see how this dreadful series ends. Ugh. I hate myself. ( )
I'm really enjoying this series. I love the love story suspense (typically not my kind of thing) but it's a very cute story. Can't wait to get my hands on #3!!!! ( )
I know your streets, sweet city, I know the demons and angels that flock and roost in your boughs like birds. I know you, river, as if you flowed through my heart. I am your warrior daughter. There are letters made of your body as a fountain is made of water. There are languages of which you are the blueprint and as we speak them the city rises. -Elka Cloke
I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am. -Arthur Rimbaud
Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here. -Dante, Inferno
Dedication
For my father, who is not evil. Well, maybe a little bit.
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The formidable glass-and-steel structure rose from its position on Front Street like a glittering needle threading the sky.
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Last words
"Yes," Madeleine said. "I mean I can show you how to wake your mother up."
Sixteen-year-old Clary continues trying to make sense of the swiftly changing events and relationships in her life as she becomes further involved with the Shadowhunters and their pursuit of demons and discovers some terrifying truths about her parents, her brother Jace, and her boyfriend Simon.
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Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it would mean more time with her best friend, Simon, who's becoming more than a friend. But the Shadowhunting world isn't ready to let her go — especially her handsome, infuriating, newfound brother, Jace. And Clary's only chance to help her mother is to track down rogue Shadowhunter Valentine, who is probably insane, certainly evil — and also her father.
To complicate matters, someone in New York City is murdering Downworlder children. Is Valentine behind the killings — and if he is, what is he trying to do? When the second of the Mortal Instruments, the Soul-Sword, is stolen, the terrifying Inquisitor arrives to investigate and zooms right in on Jace. How can Clary stop Valentine if Jace is willing to betray everything he believes in to help their father?
In this breathtaking sequel to City of Bones, Cassandra Clare lures her readers back into the dark grip of New York City's Downworld, where love is never safe and power becomes the deadliest temptation.
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