City of Lost Souls

As usual for TMI, the novel's prose is unremarkable except for a few profound moments, and the clich??s of YA fiction abound, but also as usual I find myself drawn in by the dialogue and the characters, who resurrect what might otherwise be a tiring series. I kind of hate to love these books, but I love them all the same.

(mild spoilers following): I'm getting pretty sick of the “Jace is not himself” plotlines, but I found that this didn't bother me as much because Clare spent a good deal of time on the character arcs of others: Magnus and Alec, Izzy and Simon, Jordan and Maia, and even Sebastian. This is the main reason for 4 stars. It was also nice to see some actual mature (?) development in Jace and Clary's relationship, although I am somewhat fearful that they'll be back where they started (headstrong and terrible at communicating and selfishly self-sacrificing to a fault) in the next book. We shall see.