City of Fallen Angels

I had forgotten how infuriating this ending was. How I had to go through illegal means to get a hold of CoLS when I first read the series. And then proceeded to not finish CoLS for more than a year after I read like the first chapter.
Anyway, I actually remembered a lot of this book. Like, not everything, but enough for me to be pretty certain of what I was going into. Simon was more annoying than I remembered but I think that has to do with the fact that he continues to just make dumb decisions about girls. Otherwise he's fun as always. His humor is welcome any day of the week.
My love for Isabelle has solidified even more during this book. Like, Isabelle was not someone I focused on much when I first read these books because the boys had my attention. I know better now. Girls are way more awesome. And Isabelle just has my heart in everything she does, she's so awesome I wanna get her name written on my heart, like girl can fucking get it that's for sure.
Jace's self-loathing continues to drag him into stupid situations because he doesn't tell people shit and then he thinks no one notices he's not eating or sleeping and looks like he's on the brink of death, and when someone asks him what's wrong he's like “I'm fine we're fine everything's fine”, BRO. GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE AND CONSIDER THE FACT THAT YOU WERE CONDITIONED TO HATE YOURSELF FROM THE DAY YOU WERE BORN AND REALIZE THAT YOU MIGHT NOT BE FUCKING OKAY AND SHOULD PROBABLY TALK TO SOMEONE. Can't believe it took Clary the entire book to finally be like “hey dude, can you please just like, talk to me” and then when he doesn't, she yells at him, like yes please tell him what a douche he is being.
On the bright side, because Jace spent this entire book avoiding Clary at all times, this is how we finally get a Jace and Simon buddy relationship. For the first time their conversations aren't rooted in who's more jealous of who, which is very nice for a change. And friendly banter is much more fun than jealous banter, and I had forgotten that this was the reason they even started to kind of sort of hang out together (neither will admit but it is true).
The indecisiveness and recklessness of stupid teenagers knocks off a star and leaves it at four, but as always this was a great adventure with great amounts of fun and heart. Always a pleasure to visit these characters, and Isabelle being the only level-headed person ever definitely leaves her as my favorite of the entire book. She takes the cake in this one and I kind of have a feeling she will in the next as well. But we'll see. I remember like next to nothing but the opening chapter of CoLS because I did read that chapter twice before.