A review by butterreadsbooks
City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

2.0

This is probably the worst of all of them. The only reason i am reading them all is because i bought the whole series. Ok so, Clary is acting the absolutely worst in this book. Totally just playing the ultimate child having a tantrum every 5 minutes. She is the queen of not staying out of the situation they tell her to stay out of and then fucking the whole plan up. I was cheering for the bad guy, Sebastian, at one point because he said what we all wanted to hear and called Jace out for his BS and Clary out for being a total dumb bitch. I’m giving it 2 more stars than it deserves because i love the Alec and Magnus relationship. It’s adorable and i want more of THAT to be honest. So my biggest issue was the ending. The fact the author did the absolutely expected and brought Jace back to life was eh. In my opinion you should be brave enough to kill off a character and let them stay dead. But if she was going to bring him back through an all powerful Angel’s wish- if she had just wished for the innocent people killed by Valentine’s actions, then Madeleine, maybe Hodge? & most importantly, Max, PLUS Jace could’ve all come back too! Like my whole thing is, if Clary wasn’t so dicknotized by her brother not brother whatever, she could have ACTUALLY done something smart and good. But nope, big daddy Jace is the only thing on her mind. It just was really annoying and there were so many things that could’ve made it a decent book. Like for starters having likable characters.