City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments #5) Review

City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments #5) Review

Author: Cassandra Clare
Reading level: Ages 14 and up
Hardcover: 544 pages
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books; First Edition edition (May 8, 2012)
Language: English


Summary (from Amazon):

What price is too high to pay, even for love? 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. The Clave is out to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy without destroying the other. 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 price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace’s soul. She’s willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost?

Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series.

Review/My Thoughts:
Words. I cannot. Describe. Of. How. Amazing. This. Book. Is.
And it's only the 5th in the series!
Cassandra needs to hurry up and write the 6th Book: City of Heavenly Fire!
I know a lot of people are getting sick of how Cassandra has chosen to write book after book, but truthfully, I cannot get enough of this series.

In City of lost souls Lilith, the demon has been destroyed and Jace and Sebastian are missing. Clary, not getting any help from the Clave, decides to go out and find them herself. Alec, Simon and Isabelle tag along, of course!!
When Clary and Jace meet she feels that he's changed. Hanging around her evil brother, Sebastian, has made Jace into a different person. He's acting like him and Sebastian are close friends, and that he actually likes him. They soon find out that Jace has been bound to Sebastian, and killing one of them would kill the other as well. Since the Clave is determined to destroy Sebastian, Clary and her friends must find a way to save Jace.

The cover of this book was so different from the other book covers in this series. I loved the cover. I didn't at first understand what the City of Lost Souls meant (like how the title has some sort signifcance to the story).
But I do feel like it did justice to the story. There was a lot more romance than there was action, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Since the previous books were all so action packed I feel it was the right move by Clare to slow down a little.


Things I liked:
* The introduction to the Iron Sisters.
-I thought when we were introduced to the Iron Sisters, I imagined them to be all similar like with white hair, white dresses, that creepy, stuff, but...they weren't. I think, (hopefully) we will get to see more of the Iron Sisters in the next and (final?) installment of the Mortal Instrument Series
* The interdemension apartment (house?) that Sebastian, Jace, and Clary resided in. I though it was pretty cool on how that would take them to the different places all around the world.
* The Bone Chandelier Club
- Silver rain induced faerie drugs?
Yeah, if humans had a little taste of that, they certainly all would be trippin' crazy if they got high on that. Oh, and the hallucination that Clary goes through from the silver rain? Amazing, creepy, and amazing. Blood. Dead Bodies. Severed Hands.
* Sebastian.
- There are no words to speak of this boy. He's both amazing and evil, that...well...amazingly evil! I would guess that many people would dislike Sebastian, but not me, I liked Sebastian--it's either that or my fetish for fiction bad guys.
* The odd relationship between Clary and Jace-but-not-Jace.
-The other relationships between Simon and Isabella, Maia and Jordan.
* The summoning of the High Great Demon Azazel
*Simon summoning Angel Raziel

Things I didn't like:
* Sebastian (Yeah, I know I said I liked him, but this has a reason!)
-When a bad guy dies in the end of the novel, he should stay dead! Stay. Dead! Why? How? Why and How is he NOT dead after Clary killed him through Jace?! Like...how does that even work?
* The pacing. Of course, in the past novels till this one, the pacing in the beginning of the novel was pretty slow, but it sure did kick up in beginning-near-middle till at the very end.
* Magnus and Alec. Why Magnus? Why did you have to break up with Alec!? I cried, man. I cried. I'm disappointed in Magnus right now.. I'm over it.

In conclusion:
Cassandra, if it's possible, do NOT end the Mortal Instruments at book 6. Well, I'm sure you would need to, but I don't think I would ever get tired of the Shadowhunters, Downworlders, Angels, Demons, and all that jazz. 
Though I am not much of a re-reading kind of girl, I won't be re-reading these books because I experienced enough of these books (in a good way.) 
So much action, so much romance, so much fun!
I'll defintely be wanting to read the 6th installment of the The Mortal Instrument Series: City of Heavenly Fire.
Now I'm off to reading The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel-The prequel to the Mortal Instrument Series.

I would give this book 4.8/5 Stars.