Bok Review: City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare

City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book was a bit of a whirlwind, with all the teenage drama and fallen angels and people trying to come back to life and tying people together. Basically, the fourth book of the Mortal Instruments had me on the edge of my seat as I read every single word and every single page. I loved every bit of it, and I know next year Cassandra Clare will have me in a chokehold as I try and finish off the Mortal Instrument series (two more books to go!) and then The Dark Artifices series, The Last Hours, Ghosts of the Shadow Market and The Eldest Curses.

But before I go down the Cassandra Clare hole I know I’m going to be in next year once I put City of Lost Souls on hold at my local library, let’s get started on the book review…

So the book opens up with Simon going through his life because now, thanks to drinking Jace’s blood, is a Daylighter. He’s dating two girls-Isabelle Lightwood, a Shadowhunter, and Maia Roberts, a werewolf in Luke’s pack. He meets up with Isabelle at a restaurant later that night since he can’t eat anything, and two men came up to him, asking him to meet up their master…which turns out to be none other than Camille Belcourt, former leader of the vampires of New York and ex-lover of Magnus Bane. Camille basically gave Simon a deal about partnering up with her to get rid of Raphael Santiago and put her back as the leader of the vampires. Even though Simon said she’ll think about it, the next time he’ll meet up with Camille, he’d made a deal with the Shadowhunters to capture her when she has been killing shadowhunters left and right lately.

Clary is training with Jace to be a Shadowhunter, and she kept wondering what’s wrong with Jace-after all, he’s been acting very weird lately around her. Even when she’s focusing on her mom and Luke’s wedding day, she kept thinking about Jace as if he was the only thing on her mind. One day, when she and Jace was alone, he pulled a knife out and tried to harm her, and Jace explained what he’d been dreaming about. So, Clary decided that Jace can go to the Silent Brothers, to see if they can help. They could help him, once they found out that Jace died and they can put the wards back on him. Unfortunately…he was being controlled by a Greater Demon…that Greater Demon who happens to be Lilith.

On top of that, Clary did investigate a cult that was doing terrible things to babies, thanks to someone finding a baby near Beth Israel hospital, and had overheard her mother on the phone with Catarina Loss, who turned out to be a warlock with blue skin. Clary was kinda shocked, I think, when she saw through Catarina’s shimmer, but the worst thing she saw was the dead baby, which she guessed that it reminded her of her brother, Sebastian, who died in City of Glass. The baby’s fingers had claws at the end of them, and she was given a scrap of something from the baby, to find out where the mother came from when she dropped the baby off.

She found an address and went to go, texting Isabelle. The address went to a Cult of Taltos, where a hydra demon with three heads attacked her, but thanks to Isabelle showing up and killing the demon, they discovered that someone is trying to make more babies like Sebastian, which would be terrible as hell.

Oh yeah…I forgot to mention that Clary raised the dead with a rune that came to her, that told her and Luke and Brother Zachariah (I think) that Camille killed said shadowhunter, Simon compelled his mother to forget what she saw after she found blood in his room, and also Simon was living with Maia’s ex.

Back to the Ironworks party…

Clary found Jace and they reunited, but he put some weird rune on her that knocked her out. Simon followed Maureen, whom he fed on and thought killed, to the same place where the Cult of Taltos was, where it was revealed that the Greater Demon Lilith was there, and she wanted Simon to bring Sebastian, her “son” back. If he didn’t, she’ll tell Jace, who was under her command, to kill Clary. Even though he was hesitant to do it, he decided to do it anyway, nearly dying. Then Lilith and Jace got into a fight after Clary disrupted the rune Lilith placed on him, not even knowing that it was a bond before Simon pointed it out, and Jace was close to losing before Simon killed Lilith thanks to the Mark of Cain Clary put on him.

Now everything is back to normal…or is it???

Jace was forced to complete the ritual that brought Sebastian back to life, in which I went WTF. But it was a good book, five out of five stars for me.

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