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A review by liabot
City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
4.0
I rated this book four stars because after sticking around for six installments, rating it any less would just be disingenuous. It's not bad, except that it's YA fiction about demons and angels and incest, and so of course it's bad, it's terrible, but it's readable, and I quite liked two of the characters.
I was kind of irked by the in-book references to the other series (one of which is still conveniently forthcoming) in the same universe. I hate myself enough for reading these, so it's unlikely that I'm going to be reading either The Infernal Devices or The Dark Artifices. I find myself resenting the author for peppering The City of Heavenly Fire with so much obvious prequel material. I'm here to find out if Magnus and Alec get back together, don't be expecting me to get emotionally invested in any of these new characters.
And I have theological concerns about this storyworld. Mostly along the lines of, do the Clave not know Jesus? "The Law is hard but it is the Law" CF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
Ugh, don't read it! Or read it but don't tell anyone! Yuck, shudder.
I was kind of irked by the in-book references to the other series (one of which is still conveniently forthcoming) in the same universe. I hate myself enough for reading these, so it's unlikely that I'm going to be reading either The Infernal Devices or The Dark Artifices. I find myself resenting the author for peppering The City of Heavenly Fire with so much obvious prequel material. I'm here to find out if Magnus and Alec get back together, don't be expecting me to get emotionally invested in any of these new characters.
And I have theological concerns about this storyworld. Mostly along the lines of, do the Clave not know Jesus? "The Law is hard but it is the Law" CF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
Ugh, don't read it! Or read it but don't tell anyone! Yuck, shudder.