Īlthough I said it was Jace I started to care about, I think it is mainly due to Sebastian – who I want to call Jonathan so there – and his magical ‘connection’ to our blonde hero.

There was in particular, the scene with Simon and his sister where I broke down and cried - it really tugs on them heartstrings. My favourite characters really pick up on their threads here and Clare draws them out little by little, making them almost four dimensional, which I love her for. This then extends to the outer circle as Simon wants to help, Clary and Magnus want to help, Alec and the werewolves join in but I don’t know why they care unless they, unlike me, really loved Jace who probably told them all he was ten times hotter than them in every way! The story then follows the complete freaking out of Jace’s adoptive family, and of course Clary. It picks up where City of Fallen Angels left off and Jace has disappeared, along with the supposedly dead body of Clary’s brother Jonathan (or Sebastian, call him what you will). In this book the bizarre just gets more bizarre. Will’s superiority complex seemed out of place and ridiculously adorable in a Victorian setting whereas Jace was just plain annoying.Īnd this is why I have decided to review The City of Lost Souls, book number five in the Mortal Instruments series - because for the first time I’m actually caring a little bit about Jace.

While I adored Clockwork Angel and, despite the stark similarities between Will Herondale and Jace Lightwood, I still preferred the former to the latter. Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series.I have not attempted to write an earlier review of the Mortal Instruments series simply because I had nothing nice to say. She’s willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost? The price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace’s soul. As Alec, Magnus, Simon, and Isabelle wheedle and bargain with Seelies, demons, and the merciless Iron Sisters to try to save Jace, Clary plays a dangerous game of her own. The Clave is out to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy without destroying the other.

When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith’s magic has bound her beloved Jace together with her evil brother Sebastian, and that Jace has become a servant of evil. What price is too high to pay, even for love? Plunge into fifth installment in the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and “prepare to be hooked” (Entertainment Weekly)-now with a gorgeous new cover, a map, a new foreword, and exclusive bonus content! City of Lost Souls is a Shadowhunters novel.

City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare