Review: City of Glass

City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

SHADOWHUNTEEEEEEEEEEERS!!!

Yeeess, I know I'm pretty late in reading this but I finally did it! And it was a lovely ride! In spite of feeling it was too fast. I could barely read these days and I still went by it really quickly. That's one of the main reasons why my rating is actually 4 stars and not 5 full stars.

But I'll start with the story. It starts with a turning point, an attack on the Institute, and Simon crosse the portal do Idris together with Jace, Alec, Isabelle, BUT they leave Clary behind, and she really wanted to go. Pissed off, she finds a way to go with Luke, a werewolf! So a vampire and werewolf are in Idris, in Alicante, to be more precise, and a new mysterious character appears, Sebastian! I can't say anything else, otherwise I'd be giving away the whole story.

The characters are, as always, well-written, but I feel Sebastian gives away who he is too easily, it could have been harder to spot him (and I would've enjoyed it much more). Magnus and Alec's development made me delighted, I just wish those two showed up more, I think there wasn't enough Alec in the book. Jocelyn is also a nice surprise, although it just felt rushed to me, much like the whole book. (view spoiler)[Clary's reunion with Jocelyn felt really hollow to me, it lacked emotion, and there wasn't much between them throughout the whole book, even when Jocelyn told her about her past. There could have been much more emotion, and I do get Clary's reaction, but afterwards, I was expecting a tear-jerking moment and it wasn't delivered, at least to me. (hide spoiler)]

Everything went by so fast, and so little characters had a light shined upon. Alec and Magnus, important characters, showed up very little, Jocelyn and Sebastian felt rushed and Valentine sometimes felt out of character for me, but I think that was the point with him.

It's still well-written, Clary's and Jace's relationship develops nicely, Amatis is well introduced, the scenarios are always written in depth and all the plots make sense. What Luke and Clary proposed was really brave, and it really shows a new vision for all Shadowhunters.

But, with such an ending, and because I haven't seen the spoilers yet... how are there three more books?? Guess I just have to read them to find out, don't want spoilers. I just hope the others aren't as rushed as I felt this one was.

(As a side note, I can feel her writing style improving, even if it was rushed, and I think she almost perfected it with her The Infernal Devices trilogy.)

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