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A review by drridareads
City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare
1.0
I took a whole month to read this book. It's not even that long or complicated..
Firstly. There was barely any plot. Most of the book was just characters make out time according to me.
Clary: I've seen her through five books and she's the main character. Her character has not grown one bit according to me. In fact there's barely any character to her besides recklessly being in love with Jace. She legit does not give a shit about anyone besides him.
Jace: Remember how he was always glowing..now he's literally glowing. Oh My God I will never get this character. Also from what I remember the whole Evil Jace/ real Jace storyline was also in the last book CoFA.. yes I know he's connected to Sebastian this time and it's stronger.. but whatever felt like a recycled plot.
Sebastian: Why do we call him this when his name's actually Jonathan.
Simon: I do actually like his family's role in his storyline. He tells his sister. But then that's it. Since everyone's being paired up, he got paired up with Isabelle again. She probably conveniently forgot about the time he two timed her, Idk.
Maia and Jordan: In my last review I said I wanted to see more of these interesting characters, I did not however mean together. Jordan was an interesting character but let's not forget he beat her up and turned her for whatever reason. Now all their doing is making out..
Oh yes Magnus and Alec broke up too. But I wasn't really invested in that relationship also Alec was a total dick.
Firstly. There was barely any plot. Most of the book was just characters make out time according to me.
Clary: I've seen her through five books and she's the main character. Her character has not grown one bit according to me. In fact there's barely any character to her besides recklessly being in love with Jace. She legit does not give a shit about anyone besides him.
Spoiler
In this book Clary gets sexually assaulted, nearly raped by Sebastian. I find it so problematic that the writer decided to go with a sexual assault storyline without any reaction. I'm not suggesting what the reaction should've been but there should've been something instead of just forgetting about it.Jace: Remember how he was always glowing..now he's literally glowing. Oh My God I will never get this character. Also from what I remember the whole Evil Jace/ real Jace storyline was also in the last book CoFA.. yes I know he's connected to Sebastian this time and it's stronger.. but whatever felt like a recycled plot.
Sebastian: Why do we call him this when his name's actually Jonathan.
Spoiler
What really pisses me off is that that sexual assault scene was a plot device to show Sebastian as irredeemable. Also what's up with all the incest anyway.Simon: I do actually like his family's role in his storyline. He tells his sister. But then that's it. Since everyone's being paired up, he got paired up with Isabelle again. She probably conveniently forgot about the time he two timed her, Idk.
Maia and Jordan: In my last review I said I wanted to see more of these interesting characters, I did not however mean together. Jordan was an interesting character but let's not forget he beat her up and turned her for whatever reason. Now all their doing is making out..
Spoiler
How on earth did this new vampire kill Camille who is old and powerful. WTF. Probably why I'll read the last book.Oh yes Magnus and Alec broke up too. But I wasn't really invested in that relationship also Alec was a total dick.