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I would have given this book 4 stars due to the last few chapters which were extremely intense and pretty awesome. But majority of the book was slow and quite anti-climactic. There was no plot for the first half of the book, and Camille was in it a lot and it turned out to be not very cantered around her at the end, which I would have expected instead of Lilith suddenly entering after virtually no reference to her at all.
The last chapters were super intense. The battle and everything with Sebastian. I can’t believe he’s back again and now properly controlling Jace as well which is super sad.
Simons character development was pretty good, he learns more about being a vampire and on his way to accepting it. I was upset when he bit Maureen but I guess I was expecting something like that to happen soon. What I wasn’t expecting was the she would come back as a vampire and then she just left so I hope in the next book we can see what has actually happened to her. I did not like the fact that Simon was dating Maia and Isabelle, like just go out with Izzy they were super cute together.
Jordan and Maia would make a super cute couple I loved that Maia is slowly becoming more accepting of Jordan. They would be super cute.
I love Magnus and Alec, they need more time together in the books !!!
Jace and Clary as always had a very rocky relationship throughout the book, but when they did get on I loved their dynamic.
Overall it was pretty good but thought it could have been executed better especially the first half of the book.
Also I loved the fact that Will Herondale was mentioned!!!

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Blended reading (physical and audio)

The Details:
Narrated by Molly C. Quinn and Ed Westwick
Unabridged

A book focused more on Simon - my favourite!

So initally I wasn't sure what direction book 4 would take as the previous one felt like it wrapped up a main story arc quite well, so I was satisfied when more was released about things we thought would be lain to rest.

Jace felt so pretentious in this one! I mean, he's always got this general arrogant thing going for him and I know he was going through the motions of all the reveals from City of Glass, but as a character I've not liked much from the start, he just irritated more so with his mopping and I wanted to give him a good shake - he is the king of miscommunication, I swear... or rather, lack thereof.
I also feel like I missed an important fracture between him and Clary. They were acting so weird around each other and I mean the obvious reason I got but also... come on?

Simon was great in this. I'm so glad he had more main character energy but I still feel like he's being pulled about by the true puppeteers. But I felt like he had some major character assassination with

cheating arc between Izzy and Mia and the biting of Maureen. The prior, I get that they were both sort of situationships, but at least communicate that and make sure everyone's on the same page and then with Maureen, yeah things slip. You're a vamp, I get it... but jeez! Wrong person, wrong time

and what a whole can of worms that all unleashed!
I realise despite this feeling like a Simon centered story, I don't have a lot to say about him...

The main plot twist had me shook but that ending rattled these old bones then some!
What a fantastic next book. This could have easily fallen into a sleepy sequel situation, bit it brought the drama, action and character development and I was here for it.

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