In the last book, Clary stabbed Jace with the Archangel Michael's sword, Glorious. The power of the sword was that it destroyed evil within good, but if the evil outweighed the good, than the soul was killed. In Jace, evil was only the bond that made him bonded and loyal to Sebastian. However, that was now gone, and now Jace is Jace, only with a little tweak.
The power bestowed in the sword was Heavenly Fire, and when Jace was stabbed, the sword dissolved into his body, making the Heavenly Fire run through his veins. If you ask me, this is just freaking awesome. Now stronger, faster, and better than ever, can Jace defeat Sebastian?
Sebastian has proved countless of times that the Clave cannot defeat him alone. Sebastian and his endarkened army attacked several institutes and turned about 400 shadowhunters to endarked. Although he failed to succeed in an attack against the London Institute, he killed the entire Praetus Lupus, including Jordan, leaving a message for all downworlders that if they ally with the Clave then they will be killed with them but if they did not then they will be spared.
Crap, is what is going through ever clave member's head. How can they win this war when they cannot match their strength? In a battle at the Citadel, where the Iron Sisters forge the shadowhunter weapons, Jace ended up just flying throught the endarkened effortlessly with the heavenly fire flowing through his blood. Like a piece of cake. But Sebastian was still faster, and stabbed him in the shoulder only for the heavenly fire to attack back through the blade in Jace's chest making Sebastian flee.
About halfway through this book, I am seeing the world through countless views. There's action everywhere through every character and every place inside and outside of Alacante, where the Clave City Hall lies. The author has done a really good job with this, switching from point of view through point of view, having multiple different character stories entwined together to make this novel the novel it is. Building the intensity to make what a last book of a series be the best ending of a complete overall story. Flawless with the imagery, details, expansion of imagination to use with the massive concrete details. It is hard to not imagine the characters and their expressions, the setting, the surroundings, the way they move and act and react. I look forward to writing more of this novel, especially to finding out how it will all end.
Saturday, November 8, 2014
The Mortal Instruments: City of Lost Souls
Alright, so I already finished the book, and it just left me in complete desperation to open the last novel of the series. Not any different from the first four novels, while reading I was able to envision everything in my head as I was reading, like a movie. Although the movie for the first book, City of Bones lacked a majority of the book's plot and detail. Anyways, City of Lost Souls left me in shock.
Jace and Clary without a doubt are 100% in love with each other. In fact that is why Clary took the risk of joining Sebastian and Jace when they came for her, on their conquest on rebuilding the world. Clary knew, however, that Jace wasn't being himself and that was why she went along, to see how to, if she could, save him. But, at least she had a plan. She knew Jace and Sebastian were traveling through dimensions, so she stole the Fairy Rings, and gave the other pair to Simon. The ability of the Fairy Rings were that they were able to communicate through each others' minds, without speaking, and without a limited distance. Little to know, however, that Sebastian have been allies with the Fairies and planned it all along. Yet, this was only the beginning of what the ending was.
Everything began to move faster and faster, along with the tension of the novel. It worked out perfectly if you ask me. The author as always used beyond what enough description and action could be. After Clary found out Sebastian's true plan, to rise endarkened shadowhunters by rising Lilith from the dead and extinguishing all other shadowhunters by killing them or turning them to be endarkened, and extinguishing the world of the downworlders too, she did the unthinkable.
It was impossible to kill Sebastian without killing Jace, and vice versa because they were linked with demon blood. That was until Simon summoned the angel Raziel. After finding only useless ideas, summoning the angel was the best option for Magnus, Isable, Alec, Jordan, and Simon. Magnus being the warlock that did all the magic, Isabelle being Simon's undefined girlfriend, and Alec's being Isabelle's brother and Magnus' lover, and Jordan being Simon's protector from the Praetus Lupus. The reason why the vampire (Simon) summoned Raziel was because he was the one who wore the mark of Cain, that prevented Raziel from killing him instantly because it was against the Heavenly Orders to ever summon an angel. To get to the point, Simon had his Mark of Cain stripped from him in exchanged for Michael's sword "Glorious" because that was the only weapon that could be used to harm Sebastian without harming Jace. It rid evil in a soul, and if the evil outweighed the good, than it would've dissolved the source killing it. So now, killing Sebastian was back into the equation of winning a war that they were losing.
Nonetheless, getting Sebastian was still impossible. The nearest chance they had was when Magnus, Alec, Isabelle, Jocelyn (Clary's mother), and other clave members, ambushed Sebastian and his endarkened warriors during a ritual where they turned Luke's sister into and endarkened. They managed to win the fight, but only because Sebastian had fled. However, before he fled, Clary escaped from him, and ran towards Simon who then gave her Glorious. And then the unthinkable happened. She couldn't get to Sebastian with Jace, under a spell, blocking her. So, she ran Glorious through Jace's chest.
Honestly, this book ended perfectly. The author gave the element of surprise better than ever expected. And now, the begin the last book of this amazing series. City of Heavenly Fire.
Jace and Clary without a doubt are 100% in love with each other. In fact that is why Clary took the risk of joining Sebastian and Jace when they came for her, on their conquest on rebuilding the world. Clary knew, however, that Jace wasn't being himself and that was why she went along, to see how to, if she could, save him. But, at least she had a plan. She knew Jace and Sebastian were traveling through dimensions, so she stole the Fairy Rings, and gave the other pair to Simon. The ability of the Fairy Rings were that they were able to communicate through each others' minds, without speaking, and without a limited distance. Little to know, however, that Sebastian have been allies with the Fairies and planned it all along. Yet, this was only the beginning of what the ending was.
Everything began to move faster and faster, along with the tension of the novel. It worked out perfectly if you ask me. The author as always used beyond what enough description and action could be. After Clary found out Sebastian's true plan, to rise endarkened shadowhunters by rising Lilith from the dead and extinguishing all other shadowhunters by killing them or turning them to be endarkened, and extinguishing the world of the downworlders too, she did the unthinkable.
It was impossible to kill Sebastian without killing Jace, and vice versa because they were linked with demon blood. That was until Simon summoned the angel Raziel. After finding only useless ideas, summoning the angel was the best option for Magnus, Isable, Alec, Jordan, and Simon. Magnus being the warlock that did all the magic, Isabelle being Simon's undefined girlfriend, and Alec's being Isabelle's brother and Magnus' lover, and Jordan being Simon's protector from the Praetus Lupus. The reason why the vampire (Simon) summoned Raziel was because he was the one who wore the mark of Cain, that prevented Raziel from killing him instantly because it was against the Heavenly Orders to ever summon an angel. To get to the point, Simon had his Mark of Cain stripped from him in exchanged for Michael's sword "Glorious" because that was the only weapon that could be used to harm Sebastian without harming Jace. It rid evil in a soul, and if the evil outweighed the good, than it would've dissolved the source killing it. So now, killing Sebastian was back into the equation of winning a war that they were losing.
Nonetheless, getting Sebastian was still impossible. The nearest chance they had was when Magnus, Alec, Isabelle, Jocelyn (Clary's mother), and other clave members, ambushed Sebastian and his endarkened warriors during a ritual where they turned Luke's sister into and endarkened. They managed to win the fight, but only because Sebastian had fled. However, before he fled, Clary escaped from him, and ran towards Simon who then gave her Glorious. And then the unthinkable happened. She couldn't get to Sebastian with Jace, under a spell, blocking her. So, she ran Glorious through Jace's chest.
Honestly, this book ended perfectly. The author gave the element of surprise better than ever expected. And now, the begin the last book of this amazing series. City of Heavenly Fire.
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