Rating: 5/5
Read: June 19th, 2017
City of Lost Souls was so good! I loved it!
I honestly think not much happened in this book, in terms of action and craziness, but that was 100% okay, because I loved just reading about the characters and their interactions instead.
This book was well over 500 pages, and I read it faster than I’ve read any book this year, including 200-300 page books. I’m actually thinking I was possessed (if you’ve read this book you’ll get the humour in that) whilst reading it, because how I read a 500+ page book in a few days is beyond me.
Especially Cassandra Clare books which I usually drag out over weeks or even months. Anyway, my shock is over, lets get into the review.
The characters were definitely my favourite part of this book. I just loved their interaction, the humour of Clare’s writing, and the way in which they all loved each other so much, which you could so clearly tell when reading it.
Whilst reading this it made me realise just how different the TV Show’s characters are from the book. Honestly, the only decent character on the show is Simon, and maybe Magnus. The rest, are absolutely nothing like the book characters in my opinion.
Also side note: I have nothing but respect for Kat McNamara, but casting her as Clary was one of the worst decisions on TV that I’ve seen in a long time. Sorry.
I loved the Sebastian aspect of this book, I by no means am on his side, which I think some people are by reading some reviews. But, I think he is such an interesting character that I can’t wait to explore further in the next book.
The whole plot of CoLS was very much the same the entire way through, nothing really changed, we just got to see how the characters tried to figure out a solution to the problem, which I surprisingly didn’t find boring in the slightest. I think thats a testament to Cassandra’s fabulous writing.
Cannot wait to read City of Heavenly Fire and finally say I’ve read this series!!!
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