City of Fallen Angels

Audio book

First and foremost I was surprised that Cassandra Clare chose to spin this tale in Clary and Simon's POV. They went back and forth all the way to the end. Simon is not really one of my favorite characters. In fact he was pretty annoying. It took me a while to try to figure out what voice the reader was giving Simon but when I did I said out loud... OH BROTHER PLEASE! The reader gave Simon Jerry Seinfeld's voice. I didn't care for it much.

I won't go into the summary too much because I think the one provided by Goodreads is pretty much spot on.

Clary and Jace are finally given a chance to explore their love and relationship but it's short lived. The Isabelle/Simon/Maia love triangle is... well... I could have done without. Jace as the tortured hero is becoming a bit much and I'm not digging it. Mind you I am NOT a fan of Jace. I think he's a DUCK. However, I don't think Clare gives him an opportunity to be thoroughly understood or to grow as a character. I felt that Jace was non existent physically, mentally and emotionally throughout the entire book and he's a lead. I didn't connect with him at all in this book even when he did “speak”. As annoying as Simon is I do think it was important to see that he was having a hard time adjusting as a vampire and that both vamps and weres who have been turned and orphaned so to speak do have a rough time of it all the way around in very much the same way.

I continue to think that Clare writes long books to write long books. One of my pet peeves is that there is so much unnecessary information/descriptions that really do nothing for the story...hence the unnecessary I just mentioned. :-)

She always redeems herself with this one fact. You will definitely have a major cliff hanger but all of the loose ends and mysteries introduced throughout the book will be solved; nicely braided and weaved by the end of the book. I just wish she didn't add so much fluff in between.