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A review by shelves_by_sim
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
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? It's complicated
4.0
This is my second dive into The Mortal Instruments world and I'm loving the nostalgia it all comes with! Clary and Jace and their extremely mortifying predicament. All the longing and the glances and gahhhh, it's anxiety-inducing but it's also just so good. I'm surprised at how well the story flows with what I know about this world, it seems that even though the show itself changed quite a bit, the main plot sort of stays the same.
We get the introduction of Maia in this book, who I totally forgot about, and I quite like her and the dynamic she has with Luke. We also get our first glimpse of Meliorn and I love that man so so so much, almost as much as I love Raphael. I love that we are getting more and more scenes with Raphael and he's slowly becoming more relevant in the story! As for Simon, argh, I cannot with this guy. I really do not like him or his friendship/relationship with Clary and I really hope we get some character development there because that's just not it lol.
The plot was good, kind of standard. I didn't think anything really mind blowing happened but that's probably because of how well I know the show? There was nothing inherently bad about it, I think I just expected more. Valentine is a really good villain, he is so manipulative and it's actually quite scary how you can feel just how good he is at charming people. I love Magnus Bane (of course) and I love how his and Alec's relationship is already front and center - I thought we might have to wait for that!
We get the introduction of Maia in this book, who I totally forgot about, and I quite like her and the dynamic she has with Luke. We also get our first glimpse of Meliorn and I love that man so so so much, almost as much as I love Raphael. I love that we are getting more and more scenes with Raphael and he's slowly becoming more relevant in the story! As for Simon, argh, I cannot with this guy. I really do not like him or his friendship/relationship with Clary and I really hope we get some character development there because that's just not it lol.
The plot was good, kind of standard. I didn't think anything really mind blowing happened but that's probably because of how well I know the show? There was nothing inherently bad about it, I think I just expected more. Valentine is a really good villain, he is so manipulative and it's actually quite scary how you can feel just how good he is at charming people. I love Magnus Bane (of course) and I love how his and Alec's relationship is already front and center - I thought we might have to wait for that!