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.
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