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    City of Glass
    City of Glass
    City of Glass
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    City of Glass

    Written by Cassandra Clare

    Narrated by Natalie Moore

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    Love is a mortal sin, and the secrets of the past are deadly. Plunge into the third installment novel 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 Glass is a Shadowhunters novel.

    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?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateMar 24, 2009
    ISBN9780743579643
    Author

    Cassandra Clare

    Cassandra Clare is the author of the #1 New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Shadowhunter Chronicles. She is also the coauthor of the bestselling fantasy series Magisterium with Holly Black. The Shadowhunter Chronicles have been adapted as both a major motion picture and a television series. Her books have more than fifty million copies in print worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Cassandra lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and three fearsome cats. Visit her at CassandraClare.com. Learn more about the world of the Shadowhunters at Shadowhunters.com.

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    • 5/5
      The third book of this book series is insanely good. I started reading this very relaxed and when I notice I'm sat on the bed either on the verge of tears or wanting to throw the book across the room with all the drama going on. This is by far the best out of the 3 books that I've read from The Mortal Instruments series. I would for sure read it all over again.

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    • 4/5
      This book is the best book in the series so far the plot was really good. However in my opinion Clary is a little immature and childish. *SPOILER ALERTS* To think about this more deeply at the time Clary and Jace doesn't know that they are not brother and sister and they still kissed each other. Secondly why would Sebastian kiss his own sister if he knows that Clary is his sister? And most surprisingly a demon is raping a shadow hunter. Also the forth book get much weirder than this.
    • 5/5
      A great ending for the first half of the series, full of twists and turns and all sorts of excellent imagination!
    • 4/5
      Great Again. Read with Jared :)
    • 5/5
      I am totally addicted to this series. I can't put them down. I'm excited to read the next book! Love how this one ended :)
    • 4/5
      This one actually gets a full 4 stars. The author did a good job of making me want to slap the hellfire out of Clary, Jace, Alec, and some others I'm sure.

      On the mobile app again so, Spoilers Ahead:

      This gave us an all-access pass into Valentine's head. And while he was a complete and total lunatic, he had real belief in what he was doing. Though the real Jonathan was a monster, I think as his father Valentine had some inkling of love for him. I believe it pained him when he learned that Jace had killed him. I also believe it pained him very much to kill Jace. You have to admire his conviction, his utter belief in his cause. Again he was a raging psychopath, but dedicated.

      I almost felt sorry for him when the angel struck him down. Although I truly don't know what he expected. You kidnapped and tortured an angel for years and then you think to command the angel that made the nephilim?! And all for a very, very wrong and twisted cause. Yeah I don't know how he didn't see that coming, 'cause I sure did!

      Clary flipping out on her mom bugged me. I think because she had so very nearly lost her, and she had defied everything and everyone just to get her back, you'd think she would have hugged her before giving her a verbal smack down. Kind of like when you're a kid and don't check in at home all day and when you finally stroll through the door, your mom totally hugs the life out of you before shaking the shit out of you and screaming about how worried she was. I think that should have been more her reaction, but whatever.

      And don't even get me started about how disgusted I am about Clary and Jace not being blood siblings! I was really hoping this didn't go for the predictable, stereotypical ending. I was totally pulling for Simon! I also just wanted a romance that didn't turn out the way it was expected to...but there are a few more books so there could be a separation/break-up around the corner. Not that I don't want a happy ending or dislike them together. I was just hoping for something different, non-mainstream.

      Oh well. Disappointed as I am, at least Luke got his girl! I'll check out the rest of the series.
    • 5/5
      One of my all time favorite Novels. Cassandra Clare has created an amazing world filled with passion, love, pain, angelic...demonic battles, friendship, warlocks, vampires, werewolves....basically all the good stuff. The connection between Jace and Clary will forever be my favorite romance. Love that i was able to essentially live in this book....while i got some work done.
    • 5/5
      Loved this series
    • 4/5
      Best book in the series so far. Action, suspense, intrigue, twists, & turns. Good character, plot, & storyline development.
    • 5/5
      I think this one might be my favourite so far, and honestly how do these books just keep better and better? There are moments when I think I might have it all figured out, but then it just catches me off-guard every time. What I love the most is that the characters never feel to be acting out of character, there is character development but they always feel like themselves, and everything that happens seems to be within the bounds of this world. If that makes sense.
      Sebastian is such a great villain, he's very very entertaining and unpredictable, and different. I will probably miss Valentine, just because he was one of the most interesting villains I've ever read about, mainly because he wasn't just 'evil', I feel like Cassandra Clare somehow succeeded in making him a 'round' character that you can't help but get attached to. In a way.
      I just hope nothing is going to happen to my favourite characters. Because that would be bad.
    • 5/5
      Read this book forever ago. Needed an escape. The narrator was solid. She didn’t over read it like the narrator is part one of this series. To the point that the characters get defined by their voices and there’s no room for you to imagine it.

      It was just right for me. She wasn’t to animated or flat. And I love this book series. I have since it came out.
    • 4/5
      Continuing my guilty YA pleasure, this urban fantasy novel is the third book in the Mortal Instruments series. In order to save her mother's life, Clary travels to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters to locate a wizard who might be able to help restore her mother's health. However, while there, she quickly learns of her estranged father's plans to mount an attack on the Glass City using a demon army. Now Clary and her friends must assist in defeating Jonathan Morningstar.
    • 5/5
      The person reading the book for audiobook made it great!

    • 3/5
      Clary and Jace, it had to be resolved somehow. The climatic battle scene I was expecting never happened. Slightly predictable but diverting enough.
    • 5/5
      I find myself inclined towards favoring the middle works of trilogies - Empire Strikes Back for example - and Clare's The Mortal Instruments follows that vein. Perhaps it is something in the rush of building upon the introduction the first in a series provides, yet not allowing for the final resolution that will come in the third. So when I arrive at the concluding chapter of trilogies, there is always that sense of sorrowful anticipation that the story is almost completed. Having been fortunate enough to receive an ARC of this book, I am left wondering if the salivation of waiting two more months until its March release would have heightened the thrill. Delayed gratification? Impossible I suppose. I am American after all. Be that as it may, the thrill radiated from this book. I dare not comment but indirectly for fear of spoiling the surprise and delight of discovering this joyous conclusion to a brilliant series, however I will say that City of Glass made me love Jace more, respect Clary for the young woman we see mature, and dearly hope that Clare has many more tales to relate on the horizon. Her villains are complex, her protagonists troubled but not whiny, her story is detailed and surprising, and she relates all of this with skill and joy.
    • 5/5
      The Mortal Instruments series is a series where each book is better than the last. City of Glass was the best book of the series, by a long shot, and I loved it!

      The action reaches the ultimate climax in this book; relationships push the boundaries, the plot becomes more in depth. Its just amazing. I was able to figure out who Sebastian was but I wouldn't make that call the book predictable. You just really have to pay attention to all the fine little details. As for Jace and Clary...I knew it from book one. Just sayin!

      The plot has to be one of the best I've read. Valentine isn't the ultimate bad guy of all stories, but he is pretty bad...why? Because he doesn't even see it. It's the shaping of the characters that Cassandra Clare did that made him (and everyone else) so...enjoyable, for the lack of a better term.

      This book definitely rivals some of my all time favourites, and I'd proudly put it on my shelf next to my Harry Potters. So, that being said (And I tried really hard not to give too much away. It's just SO hard not to, because I love this book so much.), I really enjoyed reading the third book of The Mortal Instruments series and I can't wait to get my hands on the fourth.
    • 5/5
      Wow! This 3rd installment in the series is the best so far. It was action-packed, with some significant story development. Now, onto #4! :)
    • 4/5
      City of Glass is the third book in the Mortal Instruments trilogy, the first two of which are City of Bones and City of Ashes. They're written by Cassandra Clare, who, as you may or may not know, was a very popular (and somewhat controversial) Harry Potter fanfiction author back in the Golden Fanfiction Age between the releases of books 4 and 5. This makes her pretty easy to make fun of, for example by pointing out that Jace in the Mortal Instruments books is basically Leather Pants Draco from her Draco Trilogy, and I won't argue with you there. (Shadowhunters even wear leather pants as part of their demon-killing gear. Trufax.) But Clare was a popular fic author for a reason. In my mind, she's proven her storytelling chops with the Mortal Instruments trilogy. I liked the third installment a lot, and I bet I'll be going back and rereading all three books someday. They're funny, they keep you interested, and I liked the world she built. It's basically Buffy the Vampire Slayer if there were a bunch of Slayers and they had their own city, but with the "Ooh, mysterious stuff happened in the previous generation and it's relevant now!" aspect of, say, Harry Potter. Also (spoilers! sort of), everyone has a different father than they thought. The characters basically play a constant game of Musical Parents. Endings of trilogies (or other series) are tricky. Sometimes the writer has thrown so many balls in the air in the first two books that they don't quite all get caught in the third. This isn't the case with City of Glass, which wraps up all the major plot points in a satisfyingly juicy way, while leaving a couple of things tantalizingly open-ended, so the ending doesn't seem too neat. This series isn't for everybody. If you get really annoyed by angsty teenagers making snarky quips that mostly involve taking things literally, you'll probably want to throw these books across the room. And I definitely grew tired of lines like "There was a breathless undercurrent in [character:]'s voice, if someone who never breathed could be said to be breathless" (p. 370). ESPECIALLY AFTER THE SEVENTH TIME. JUST FIND SOME OTHER WAY TO SHOW THE CHARACTER'S EMOTIONS! WE ALREADY KNOW [HE OR SHE:] IS A VAMPIRE!! Ahem. Obviously, lines like that weren't enough to deter me from finishing the book. The trilogy may not be winning the Printz award anytime soon, but I don't really care. It's fun and funny and addictive, and it has werewolves and magic runes and a sarcastic gay warlock, and everyone has a weird name that looks cool on paper but I have no idea how to pronounce in real life ("Aline"? "Amatis"?), so it's basically everything I expect from a good escapist YA fantasy.
    • 4/5
      I continue to be impressed with Clare's ability to combine material from other stories into something quite different. She's still borrowing heavily from the Buffy and Star Wars canon, but Clare has brought her trilogy to a satisfying conclusion. The background behind Jace and Clary's supposed siblinghood is revealed, and some explanation is given for the startling abilities Clary exhibits in previous books. Although some of the explanations and resolutions are fairly predictable, the process of getting to them is enjoyable.
    • 4/5
      Enjoyed the trilogy a lot: pacy, good dialogue and characters, really draws you in. I like the fantasy world-building, which is coherently done. However, it doe end up all very One-True-Pairing for me: just about everyone ends up in a relationship and it does feel a bit over the top to me.
    • 5/5
      Much better than the second. Glad I was right.
    • 4/5
      City of Glass was so much better than the first two books. The first third was blah, the second third the action ramped up, then I got to page 369 - the revelation that implied a possible happy ending, I was glued to the book from then on.

      ***Major Spoilers Warning***

      I really loved Alec and Magnus in this especially their public display of affection in the hall and Alec introducing Magnus to his parents - finally.

      Loved Simon's joke about Sebastian and Jace that Clary was appalled at: ?So technically,? Simon said, ?even though Jace isn?t actually related to you, you have kissed your brother.? He always manages to sum everything up so well. Sebastian was certainly creepy. He knew Clary was his sister but he still tried to seduce her. Ick.

      I also loved Raziel's line to Clary after he did some smiting of the arrogant and presumptuous Valentine: ?That was the justice of heaven. I trust that you are not dismayed.? Brilliant.

      Oh and when Jace and Clary are sleeping hand in hand before the night before the battle - that was sweet and so were the many touching moments they had together.

      Although I liked this book there were still some things that annoyed me. I wondered why Clary didn?t come up with a rune that meant ?awake? to help her mother, or may be she tried and I missed that bit.

      Clary was given plenty of clues as to what Jace was throughout the books most notably Ithurial?s vision of Jace with angel wings. I had an idea when the Inquisitor died for Jace in book two, she wouldn?t have done that if she thought he was evil. Plus his physical abilities that no other Shadowhunter seemed to have.

      On top of that Clary knew there was something wrong with Sebastian but she didn?t question his interest in her until much later. Things like this made me quite impatient for Clary and the others to realise these truths.

      This third book made reading the first two worth it. A brilliant end to the trilogy.

      3.5 stars.
    • 5/5
      The books just keep getting better in the series! Clary, Jace, and Simon are in another action packed story filled with fantasy and mystical things. Clary is still trying to wake her mother Jocelyn up, Jace is still trying to come to terms with who his father is and supress the love he has for his sister. These books are like the movie Twilight + the tv show 'vampire diaries' & 'true blood' all rolled into one! It's great!
    • 3/5
      Dissappointing. All the promise of the first two books is thrown away in a very average and almost predicatable finish. Instead of the prior avoidance of cliche, here we are reduced to sterotypes and all the failures of YA romantic urban fantasy (that I had so expected in the first book, and was so relieved and excirted not to find) are brought forth in full.Low nd behold it's now time for everyone to depart to the mystical City of Glass home of the shadowhunters. But first we have lots (i mean lots, nerely thte first third of the book) of people moping around, decaring their love for each other and how it cannot possibly work. etc ad nauseam. Then when they get there they learn that Clary and Jace do have special powers after all, (who would have guessed) and the entirely predicatble invasion by Valentine goes ahead, only to foiled by our great teenage heros. Good job the entire nation of Shadowhunters listened to their words then isn't it. Everyone else turns out to be friendly and get on with their sworn enemies.This really is such a massive let down. It felt rushed and contrived all the way through. Every time some thing signifficant or even slightly unexpected happened toone of the major characters, it would be reversed or resolved through a dull duex et machina. The sparkle was lost from all the character interactions, the tensions fell flat, the demons weren't described, the non-human races barely mentioned, just about every area was less interesting and less well written than in the previous two works. What perhaps was the worst for me, was that the imagination and flare were completely missing. If the previous two books were a combination of all the best bits of Harry Potter and Harry dresden, this was the worst bits - the moping hero, the silly enemies, the contrived spcial powers, the annoying mini-cliffhanger paragragh breaks. Everything.Such a shame, that the inital promise was lost. I have read worse books, some very much worse, and it isn't bad. But the intial two books were so good, that this feels so inadequate by comparison. Worth reading only to confirm that it all does end as you would guess.
    • 4/5
      Thrilling right up to the last few chapters in which I got the feeling not unlike that which comes after a day of consuming only cotton candy and popcorn: a sensation of gluttony, guilt, and the yearning for it all to be over. A plot line dragged on too long? A character's short-sited choice? Twists arising too late in the game? I cannot say, but I'm going to let one this get out of my system before taking on any sequels or spin-offs.
    • 5/5
      City Of Glass was perfect. I couldn't have hoped for a better conclusion to the Mortal Instruments series. I have the tendency to figure out important plot-twists in stories extremely early, and a lot of times, it takes away from the experience. However, in this case, even though I figured out so much so early, I was still completely enthralled in this book.
    • 5/5
      City of Glass is an unstoppable, dazzlingly riveting and ultimately satisfying read.This is definitely one of my favorite books in this epicsauce series! I read this for 3 days while I was on a super short vacation in our province. I know I could've finished this book much much early if only the bus that we were on would just turn on the light during the night.Moving on, I can finally say now that Cassandra Clare is one of my all-time favorite authors. She's such an amazing story-teller and fantastic world-builder! My most anticipated part of this book was getting into Idris, ever since I read all about it on the first book, City of Bones, I've always wondered what exactly it looked or wondered how Cassandra will bring it to life and Cassandra's fascinating writing successfully bewitched me!And the plot was just astonishing and utterly psychedelic! The adventure, action, romance, all that raging emotions and the twists that I definitely did not see coming was downright mind-boggling. Wow! However, I was actually expecting that battle scenes to be one of the main spotlights of the story but nevertheless I extremely love how the everything turned out.I'm giving this a strong 5 out of 5 stars because this book completely blew me away and makes me want to wish that I live in the same exciting world as Clary have. I cannot wait for City of Fallen Angels, the fourth Installment from The Mortal Instruments series! It'll be out on April 5th! :)Also, I've read the first chapter of Clockwork Angel which is the first book in the prequel series of TMI, I need to get my hands on that!
    • 4/5
      New characters come into play and the readers are given a glimpse of Clary's real family. Her brother is just as worse, or maybe even more horrible, than her father; her mother is still playing sleeping beauty; and Jace is thankfully not related in any biological way to her. The introduction of Sebastion was much appreciated, but I was saddened by who he murdered and how he did it.
    • 4/5
      This was the 3rd and last book in the Immortal Instruments trilogy. It was the most predictable of the three books on some of the plot lines, but I'm glad I read it.
    • 2/5
      The third installment of Cassandra Clare's "Mortal Instruments" series proved to be okay, but not great.