susasch 's review for:

City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
3.0

Too many storylines at the same time. Too much action (and I do not say that often) and not enough deaths. I know that's a terrible thing to say but when you have the final war at the end of 6 books some people have to die. I'm sorry but it's just not possible that all the characters survive a war like that I mean they lived through 6 wars because there was one in every book and I didn't complain because of course I do not want anyone to die but when you read the final book of a series like that with so much violence and blood and war you kinda prepare yourself for some deaths.
I love the story, as I did in every other book in this series There is much action so you never get bored and are forced to go on reading and there is much love so you have some things left for your heart.
As always I think Cassandra Clare herself did a great job writing this novel. I think the ones who read through it afterwards are to blame because someone should have told her about the crap she had done at some point where it just got too unrealistic.
Also another thing that totally sucked and really made me give the book one star less beside the facts above was that I got spoiled for The Infernal Devices series. I mean SERIOUSLY? I haven't read all three yet, just the first two and now I know so much I didn't want to know! I mean if you as an author decide to write two series which are somehow connected to each other, just have to damn make the hell sure that there are no spoilers in the books I mean you never know when someone decides to read the other series, no matter when they were published.