City of Lost Souls
By Cassandra Clare
This is Book Five in the Mortal Instruments series. (Prior books - City of Bones, City of Ash,
City of Glass, and City of Fallen Angels)
Synopsis from GoodReads:
The New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments continues—and
so do the thrills and danger for Jace, Clary, and Simon.Can the
lost be reclaimed? What price is too high to pay for love? Who can be trusted
when sin and salvation collide?
Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge.
Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge.
Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the
harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series.
(Not a very thorough hook, huh? - But if you haven't read
the first four you should take a look at my review of City of Bones and then
RUN out and find a copy!)
I loved the first three books. Let me get that out of the way right
now. The fourth book didn't thrill quite
as much, but after reading the fifth in the Mortal Instruments Series and can
appreciate that book four was a set up book, and as such is okay that it was
less thrilling. (actually it ticked me off a little bit)
Why did it tick me off you ask? Well I went through all the pains and aches
with the characters in the first three books, to finally get the HEA (happily
ever after) and then book four sort of ripped that away, but that didn't make
the journey I traveled in the first three books any easier to bear, but it did
negate the satisfaction I felt at the resolution of it.
City of Lost Souls has gone a long way to making up for
ripping my poor little heart out for a second time.
There is a lot going on in this book, and typically I'm not
a fan of head flipping, but for this book it's necessary because you've got so
many people in so many different places.
It wouldn't work if we didn't get to spend a little time in Clary,
Simon, Jordan, Maia, Izzy and Alec's heads.
In this book there was a great plot, but what really won me
back was all the relationship building.
Cassandra spent a lot of time building up the relationships I've come to
love throughout the series and really showed the vulnerable sides of the
characters.
And of course there is Jace!!! He's possibly my favorite leading man of all
times.
I can't say too much, because I don't want to give anything
away. Suffice it to say, you should read this book! :D
