Review: City of Lost Souls

City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



I enjoyed this book. After book 3, I was happy with where things were. Then book 4 came along and ruined it all over again. In the beginning everyone including the clave is trying to locate Jace. No one has any idea where he is. Clary's mom has never seemed to want Clary and Jace to work out and she's always wanting to protect Clary from everything. Honestly, her mom wasn't there for her in the first two or three books for that exact reason. She was always trying to protect her from everything. If she had been honest with her in the first place, certain things may have turned out differently. So since again her mom is trying to protect her after her brother and Jace come after her, she took it upon herself to get to Jace on her own.

I'm glad that Clary did what she did. Jace was being controlled and if left to the clave, they may have killed him in order to kill Sebastian. I had really hoped that Sebastian wasn't as bad as he seemed or that he could change.

IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THIS YET, DON'T READ ANY FURTHER.

I was seriously beginning to think that Sebastian had changed, maybe because of Jace's influence since they were bound. He was saying things to make it seem like he had a heart, that he didn't want to destroy the world and that he really wanted Clary to care about him. In his own extremely twisted way, he did want that. In fact, despite the fact that they were actually related, he wanted her. That's why he goes on the complete-psycho shelf and the run-for-the-hills list.

Thankfully in the end they were able to unbind Jace. Clary's mom was trying to convince her that he was dead, which wasn't a surprise to me. It seems like at times she wants him to die. But of course Clary knew he wouldn't die. She had faith in him. I liked what was going on with the other couples of the book as well... Accept for Alec and Magnus. I was so sad about that situation.



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