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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Book Haul-5/10/2017

Hey y'all!

Today...today was a good day-did a little shopping and picked up a couple books at Ollie's Bargain Outlet (ya know, that store with the commercial and the line 'Good Stuff Cheap'?) and this is where I found these four books, which was good for me since I really wanted them so badly, even though I only the books from different book series. 

City of Ashes, book two of the Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

This is book two of the Mortal Instruments, and after I got done reading City of Bones, I swore I wouldn't read the whole series. But then seeing them and the new Shadowhunter novels coming out, makes me wanna read them right now. Also, I am thinking of watching the show as well, even though I've only seen one episode of the show on Freeform, and I might wanna watch the whole entire thing...if I can find it on Netflix or watch it on demand. 

City of Heavenly Fire, book six of the Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

So this is the last book of the Mortal Instruments (that's how stocked Ollie's are: they had the first two books and then the last book) and I like the original covers better than the other ones, though the new ones are alright. 

The Hiltons: The True Story of an American Dynasty by J. Randy Taraborrelli

So to balance out the fantasy novels, I thought it's time for me to get a biography-and I'm a sucker for anything fashion-y, historical or facts about someone, so I brought The Hiltons. I've always wanted this book since it came out, and I waited so long to buy it till now. And the good thing is, it only costed 3.99 and it's in hardback, so it'll look perfect on my makeshift bookshelf.

Gathering Darkness: A Falling Kingdoms novel by Morgan Rhodes

Once again, I found a part of a book series that I really really want to read. I fell in love with the cover (as usual because covers make or break the book-well to me anyway) and the person on the cover looks like a rouge and ironically, I play a rouge in Storm King's Thunder (my sorceress died in the body of a rhemzhor...NOT GOOD.) and I just had to get it.