Book Review: City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare

City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The Mortal Instruments has finally come to the end with this book…and it made me cry while I was reading it. And even though it needed more Magnus Bane, it was actually so good that I had to finish it off with some wine, popcorn and cheese (don’t try that at home unless your older). So the Mortal Instruments ended with City of Heavenly Fire, and this book hurted like a MFer for real.

This book introduces the characters that are in the Dark Artifices series-Emma, Julian and the Blackthorn children (Ty, Livvy, Dru, Tavvy and Mark) who were attacked by one Sebastian Morgenstern (whom I hate with a fucking PASSION). Emma and Julian saw him turn Andrew Blackthorn into an Endarkened, and they also saw Sebastian tell his soldiers to take Mark to the faeries so he can become part of the Wild Hunt. Then they went to Alicante (where the majority of the book took place before they went to Edom at the end) to testify in front of the Clave and the rest of the Shadowhunters, who were trying to find Sebastian but turns out they couldn’t find him. When the Dark War happened and the Endarkened attacked, Emma cut down a few I believe to protect the Blackthorn children, but it was Julian that killed his own Endarkened father.

Clary, Jace, Alec, Isabelle and Simon, though torn apart because of Sebastian, went to Edom to go and kill him, and also somehow along the way save the four representatives that Sebsatian and the Fairies kidnapped. Alec was worried all the time about Magnus, and also had a heart to heart about his sexualty with Jace and his father, and the funniest part in the book was when Simon and Izzy was about to get their swerve on, Alec walked in on them and yelled MY EYES which was so goddamn funny-I laughed so hard at that.

But it was the ending that got me. Sadly they didn’t save everyone-Sebastian killed Raphael, and Clary went along with Sebastian’s sick plan for them to rule, only to turn around and stab him with Heosphoros and the Heavenly Fire within the blade, burning out all the evil in him and returned Sebastian to Jonathan. Then he died and the rest of the Endarkened died, and when they couldn’t get a way out of the fake Alicante, Magnus summoned his father to make a deal to get them out…and Simon stepped up to the plate, saying the Asmodus can take his immortality and memories.

Everyone said no, but Simon said he wanted to do it. He did, and the Dark Wars were over. I think a year later Clary went to see him when he was human and didn’t have his memories, and it still hurted her to see her best friend not remembering her. Then Isabelle and Magnus went to see him before the wedding of Luke and Jocelyn, and told him that there was a way to get his memories back…which was to become a Shadowhunter.

At the end, this book was so good that I did cry at some parts, but I loved it so much that I’m a bit sad now that this book series is at an end.

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