Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | City of Fallen Angels |
| author | Cassandra Clare |
| ISBN-10 | 1-442-40355-1 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-442-40355-0 |
| ASIN | B004UR1904 |
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| date | 2012-Oct-16 |
Originally, as far as I know, the Mortal Instruments series should have consisted of three books only. This is now the fourth in this very successful series. Often when, due to great success, more books are written than what was planned for, the content of the additional books is not of the same quality any more. How about this one? It definitely is not as packed with superbly plotted action as 'City of Glass', the third book, but that would be almost impossible to beat and very difficult to match. Nevertheless, this is still an excellent book.
The book picks up where the previous one left off. Actually, in the story, it starts just a couple of weeks after the end of 'City of Glass'. And it goes right on. No setting the scene, no long introductions of the characters. But there are plenty of references to what has happened in the other three books, especially the third one. So without having read the other books in this series in the proper order, many things might be hard to grasp and understand. If you haven't done so yet, read 'City of Bones', 'City of Ashes' and 'City of Glass' before this one. They all are very worthwhile too.
Clary is training as a Shadowhunter and much in love with Jace. But Jace is withdrawing himself more and more from Clary. Why? What is wrong? Jace, being Jace and not wanting to bother or hurt Clary, blames himself and tries to hide his problems. Not the best move and rather dangerous. Simon is trying to get used to being turned a vampire while, at the same time, trying to continue with his former normal life. The powers that be don't so easily let him do that, especially not with his unique gifts which are invaluable for some. Not surprisingly, it turns out that Jace's and Simon's problems are related and some evil doers are more alive than everybody thought...
