City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2) in Who's Your Author?

Aug 23, 2009 Jess rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2009, urban-fantasy

This is a great follow up book to City of Bones!! I like the overall arching theme of the series so far, and I also liked the storyline that was particular to this book. I have a lot of ideas about what might happen in the next one, and I hope I'm not entirely accurate because then that would mean the series was a tad too predictable.. but I'll find out as soon as I get the next one from the library.

There was a lot of action in this book, and it was very fast paced. I liked seeing part of the Se ...more

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Jul 27, 2009 Schnaucl rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, july, urban_fantasy, lgbtqia, series, read_2009

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The story picks up no long after the first book ended. Clary's mother is still in the hospital. Things with Jace are still tense.

The first section with Jace is pretty jarring because for some reason Clare starts to refer to Isabelle, Alex and Max as Jace's step siblings, when of course, they're not. Neither of Jace's parents have married one of the Lightwoods.

Isabelle, Alex and Max's mother, Maryse, returns home and she is decidedly unhappy about Jace's meeting with his father in the first book ...more

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Feb 02, 2009 Cassandra rated it really liked it

Shelves: paranormal

When an author can have me wishing for a brother and sister to hook up, then I know there's some seriously twisted good writing going on.

There was a lot of negative feed back about this author... but I don't quite get that. Her characters are anything but flat or dull, all of them or vibrating w/ life and I want more of them! Even the minor characters are well rounded and three dimensional, well done.

And I am holding onto all hope that Jase and Clary are NOT related and in the third book they'll ...more

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Feb 12, 2009 Yz the Whyz rated it really liked it

Shelves: cassandra-clare, 2012-challenge-books, 2012-reads

Hmmm....what can I say?

When I finished City of Bones, I felt that I enjoyed the experience but I was in no hurry to continue the series. Now that I've read the second book, I felt a slight urgency to continue. Obviously that is a good sign, that City of Ashes is an improvement over the 1st book.

I like the world Cassandra Clare had created. I enjoyed the conflict and even the villain. However, I'm sort of blah with the love triangle in the story. I really have no opinion about Clary, and Jace is ...more

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Dec 20, 2010 Jessica Flaska rated it really liked it

loved it as much as the first

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Apr 02, 2008 Heather rated it it was amazing

I really enjoyed this book. Because the characters and general world had already been established in the first book, there was much more room for action. I also thought that Cassandra Clare's writing was more solid in this one. And I really like the complicated Clary/Jace relationship. ...more

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