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35. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare...

Posted by drey March 19, 2010 at 6:00 AM
FTC Disclosure: My copy of City of Ashes came from my local library. I am an IndieBound and Amazon affiliate, and any purchases made by clicking on the cover or the links provided may result in monetary compensation. 
Welcome back to the exotic world beyond the shadows...

Remember when I said City of Bones was formulaic? Well, City of Ashes is, too, but in a wholly different way. That is, if you think the whole deluded egomaniac trying to kill everyone because they're unclean, is formulaic; which I do.

Poor Clary. Her father's nuts, her mother's dead to the world, her father-figure is a werewolf, her best friend gets bitten by vamps. Poor Jace, getting thrown out when his adoptive parents return, because they're not sure if they can trust him. Or is that the only reason? And then the big bad scary Inquisitor shows up, believing the worst of Jace solely because Valentine. The sins of the father and all that, eh? Will people never learn?

City of Ashes has twists and turns that keep your interest in the Mortal Instruments series, because you have to know how it will all turn out.


Title: City of Ashes (Mortal Instruments #2)
Author: Cassandra Clare
ISBN-13: 9781416972242
Hardcover: 453 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2008