Book Review: City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

Book: City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

Series: The Mortal Instruments                     
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Pages: 576
Rating: 5 stars

Summary of Book:

This is the 3rd book in the six book series. It starts with Clary, who is getting ready to travel to Alicante, which is the home city of Shadowhunters. Clary must travel there in order to find answers about her mother, who is still in a comatose state.

Though someone tries to stop her, Clary arrives in Alicante in an interesting way. While there, she searches for a cure for her mother's 'illness'. Throughout the trip, Clary meets some new people; some who do not turn out to be who she thought they were.

The Nephilim have to work with a few of their enemies to stop Valentine's plans to destroy the race of Shadowhunters. Clary tests herself in ways she didn't know possible to save the people she loves.

Review *Spoilers*:

I loved this book so much! It's definitely my favorite of the series so far. The action was awesome. Clary can be a bit of a handful but she's an okay main character. I do have to give her points for bravery. It was pretty sweet how Clary made her own portal, like who does that? Then, there's Sebastian. Ugh, he just kind of disgusts me. I thought he was sketchy from the start. Then you find out he killed the real Sebastian Verlac, Aline Penhallow's cousin. Sebastian is so creepy. I can't believe he kissed Clary.

One of my favorite scenes was when Jace and Clary went to the mansion to get the book for Magnus. The angel part was sad, but when the house exploded and Jace and Clary land on each other... It was pretty cute. I can't believe they finally told us Jace and Clary aren't siblings! I knew it but it was pretty agonizing waiting. But of course, Sebastian just has to be Clary's brother. Ugh, he's annoying.

The ending of this book was so crazy. Jace dies. Then he comes back to life because Clary was pretty genius about changing the rune Valentine made. But Valentine is finally gone! I was so excited until I remembered how much I hate Sebastian and that he's all evil now.

Can I just say how much I love Malec? Like honestly, Magnus is hilarious and Alec is so awkwardly cute and they're just so perfect. The best part is when Magnus is getting attacked by demons and Alec is going to save him. Then Alec is like "why didn't you call me?" in the middle of the battle. It was so funny to me. I loved this book.

-Madison