City of Glass

By Cassandra Clare
October 30th,2012

In the third book of the series, the Lightwoods, along with many other shadowhunters from around the world travel to the beautiful city of Idris- the original home of the shadowhunters, to seek  protection and to disscuss the problem of Valentine and his posession of two of the three mortal instruments. Clary (no exception to the others of her kind) must travel to Idris to find a warlock named Ragnor Fell in order to save her mothers life. In the meantime Valentine has sent a spy into the Lightwoods temporary home to spy on the family and to hopefully uncover any secrets that may be helpful to him and his mission of summoning the Angel Raziel. Valentine hopes to destroy the shadowhunter race (him and his followers being the only exception) in order to rid the clave of corruption. As the shadowhunters prepare for a war against thousands of demons they must choose to either fight alone or fight along side their enemies- the downworlders.

I think this book was really well written and I loved the fact that all the charecters were faced with such hard decisions, and that so much pressure and responsibility was put upon them. Clary was forced to go against the beliefs of hundreds of shadowhunters and convince them to believe her and trust her when it came to teaming up with the downworlders. Jace believed that it was his duty to kill Valentine and risked his life by making the decision to go after him and his son. One question I had was: Why did the author not elaborate more on Sebastians character and help us develop a stronger connection to him? I felt that if Sebastians character would of been further developed and spent more time with then the reader would of felt a stronger sense of betrayal and anger towards him when he turned against Clary and the others.

I highly recommend this series, Its a great read and it has a combination or everything from romance to action to fantasy to satisfy a variety of readers. Another interesting and appealing part of the book is the fact that througout the series everything connects and what starts out as a bunch of puzzle pieces comes together to form a puzzle. Almost any questions you have are answered and the plot line is so satisfying. The book is also full of lots of descriptions and different writing aspects that make a piece more intersting, Cassandra Clare does an amazing job of painting a clear picture of the charecters and the various scenes.