Mikee (ReadWithMikee)'s Reviews > City of Fallen Angels

After reading The Infernal Devices, I didn't think the last half of The Mortal Instruments would live up to the expectations that the prequels set, and this book proved me right. At least just in this case. City of Fallen Angels is by far my least favorite book in this series.

This book was just filled with stupid relationship drama. Relationship drama between no other than Clary and Jace. No surprise there! Relationship drama between Simon, Isabelle, and Maia. Relationship drama between Maia and Kyle. Relationship drama between Magnus and Alec. It seemed like Cassandra Clare stirred up all this drama with literally ALL the couples in the beginning of the book only to bring them all back together again by the end of City of Fallen Angels.

Clary and Jace have literally been dying over the fact that they weren't able to be together because of that "thing", but now that situation got cleared up in City of Glass, they're free to finally be together and make up for lost time. But of course, that doesn't happen and more drama comes up between them that creates all this unnecessary angst in the relationship that can simply be solved with straightforward, basic communication. But nope. Apparently communication has become such a hazard. So instead, they make out and verge on having sex in almost every scene instead of actually working out their problems. I had to skip all their scenes because 99% of the time they were making out and groping each other. I can't wait to see what new relationship problems they have next in City of Lost Souls. YAY. -____-

On top of that, Clary is still a BRAT. Jace is back to being his depressed, self-loathing self again. Alec was acting like a whiny, jealous boyfriend. Simon even managed to irk me in this book. The plot twists weren't even plot twists considering how I called them from the beginning. This book was just a disaster for me. Period. 80% of this book consisted of everybody and their relationship problems and the other 20% is actual plot progression.

To be honest, this series should've just been done after City of Glass. I feel like this book, or maybe even just the last half of this series in general, was just really unnecessary. The whole "mortal instruments" concept in which this whole series was named after, already seemed to reach its conclusion by the end of the third installment. But I'm just going to continue one with the last two books just to finally say I completed The Mortal Instruments, and to catch up on all of Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunter books in time for Lady Midnight.