City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments #3)

Title: City of Glass
Author: Cassandra Clare
Series?: The Mortal Instruments
Synopsis: 

To save her mother's life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters - never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and Simon has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunters, who are deeply suspicious of a vampire who can withstand sunlight.

As Clary uncovers more about her family's past, she finds an ally in mysterious Shadowhunter Sebastian. With Valentine mustering the full force of his power to destroy all Shadowhunters forever, their only chance to defeat him is to fight alongside their eternal enemies. But can Downworlders and Shadowhunters put aside their hatred to work together? While Jace realizes exactly how much he's willing to risk for Clary, can she harness her newfound powers to help save the Glass City - whatever the cost?

Love is a mortal sin and the secrets of the past prove deadly as Clary and Jace face down Valentine in the final installment of the New York Times bestselling trilogy The Mortal Instruments.

Why I Read This:
I read the first two books in the series and couldn't wait to get my hands on this one. I'm very glad that I got over my fear of mainstream books being horrible (because not all of them are *coughMortalInstrumentscough*)

My Thoughts/Review:
City of Glass starts out with Clary getting ready to go to Idris with Jace and the Lightwoods. Jace is trying to get her to stay home, so he gets Simon out there to try to convince everyone that she changed her mind, while he had tricked Clary into thinking it was another time. However, it all goes wrong when some Fallen attack Jace, Simon, and the Lightwoods. They rush though the portal to Idris, taking the injured Simon with them, and leaving Clary behind in New York.

Clary soon finds out what happens, throws practically a temper tantrum, and makes a portal to Idris, nevermind the danger. She accidentally drags Luke along, and they land in the middle of a lake that the is like poison to Shadowhunters. Clary accidentally swallows some water, but they are now at Idris, on their way to Alicante, so there's nowhere for her to get help. Her and Luke get into Alicante illegally, so they can't let anyone know they're there, but Luke requests the helps of an unusual woman in the city to help Clary get better.

Clary's not supposed to go out because she's there illegally, but she does anyway, and she goes to see Jace and the Lightwoods, oblivious to Simon's dilemma, and that ends in heartbreak.

Meanwhile, Simon is being kept in the Gard's prison and coerced to try to sell out the Lightwoods.

Jace and Clary slowly but steadily find out more about their pasts, their family's past, and breakthrough discoveries are made. Their forbidden love is at an all-time high, even though they're trying harder than ever to make that not-so-obvious. The time comes to face it, to face everything, and to make hard decisions that could just result in the deaths of not just themselves, but lots of other people too.

This book was a great ride, though I didn't feel some emotions as I think I should have. I didn't get so sad where I should have, I didn't cry, I didn't get extremely happy. It's just not as much of an emotional roller coaster as I would've liked for it to be.

It was a good plot, with lots of twists that I didn't see coming. However, I had to skip through some parts because they were too boring for me to read all of it.

We find out more about Jace in this book, more than ever before, and we get to watch him grow even more, too. Same with Clary and Simon. Simon was a nice relief from Clary there for a while. I liked his point of view. Jace's point of view was also a nice change, but I didn't like it as much as Simon's.

Magnus was in here a lot more, which is an awesome thing.

I really liked this book, but it was not as good as its predecessors. I don't know what else to say. It was nice, but not fantabulous or anything.

I give this book 3.5 out of 5 stars.

~Jessicah