All right. I finally got to reading The City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare. So I shall tell you about it!
Jace is
gone. He disappeared off the roof, as did Sebastian, the night Lilith was
killed. It just so happens that Sebastian was, in fact, never dead, and he and
Jace are connected, both physically and mentally. When one of them gets hurt,
the other feels it, too. Jace will do whatever Sebastian wants because
Sebastian is the more dominant of the pair. So, Clary sneaks away to be with
Jace and Sebastian and takes with her a faerie ring that will help her
communicate telepathically with Simon so that she can foil their evil plan or
something like that. Meanwhile, they are all having relationship problems: Alec
is questioning the possibility his and Magnus’ future together, Isabelle
doesn’t know how to tell Simon how she feels, Jordan wants to get back together
with Maia and he doesn’t know how she will react, and Clary is struggling to
stay with this Jace-who-is-not-Jace. There’s a whole bunch of relationship
drama in there.
Okay, so my
favorite character of this book was Sebastian, I think. Either him, Magnus, or
Simon, but I feel like everyone loves the last two, so Sebastian it is. I don’t
know why I like him so much. While reading, I kept picturing him and Clary
standing over a burning world on a mountain or something, wind blowing through
their hair, two perfectly beautiful and powerful people commanding an evil army,
and I wanted to be Clary. Now, I’m not saying that I want the world to burn or
anything, but I don’t know, the image in my head just seemed cool. And I didn’t
really get the feeling that Clary and Sebastian were brother and sister, they
felt more like love interests for some reason. Or maybe it was just wishful
thinking. Also, everyone just kept saying that he doesn’t have the ability to
feel anything, but I think that he does, so Clare didn’t do a very good job of
convincing me that he was just a big ball of evilness.
Moving onto
Clary. At times, Clary seemed really whiny and bratty, like a little kid. At
others, she just seemed kind of stupid, while at others, she was okay. She
definitely isn’t one of my favorite female protagonists, at all, and Jace isn’t
one of my favorite male protagonists, either. I guess he wasn’t exactly himself
in this one, but he was a little funny when he was being cocky and making
jokes. But that was it.
Okay, I did
not like the ending of this book one bit.
It has something to do with Alec and Magnus (the only couple I actually like in
this book), but I’m not going to tell you any more than that because then I
would be giving stuff away and that would be not good. This fifth book was
definitely better than the fourth, but I think Clare should have stopped after
the third one because it all went downhill from there.
There were
times when the story was a little slow and I was like, “Okay, just skip these
characters and go on to more exciting stuff.” I found myself skipping ahead a
lot, then having to force myself to go back and actually read it, so the story
didn’t exactly captivate me the way it should have. Okay, well it wasn’t as bad
as it could have been, but it wasn’t as good as it should have been.
This book was okay. 3 Smileys!
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