City of Heavenly Fire

Kind of spoilers...Unless you've seen the show, then not really.

City of Heavenly Fire is the sixth and final book in Cassandra Clare's first series: The Mortal Instruments and I loved it!

The book got a 4.4/5 on Goodreads and an 11/10 in my heart.

This book is about Sebastian (Jonathan Morgenstern) creating an army of Dark Shadowhunters and tearing through everything that Clary and Jace hold dear, not cool man.

Clary decides that he must be stopped and convinces her accomplices to accompany her and Jace into their scariest destination yet, Edom.

The book introduces us to Emma Carstairs and Julian Blackthorn along with his entire family, who are later central points in her series: The Dark Artifices, they are attacked by Sebastian and his army of Endarkened who then lay waste to not only the Los Angeles Institute but also three or four other Institutes around the world in order to create his army.

When the Clave finds out they send unwitting Shadowhunters to try and retrieve the Endarkened so that they can look for a cure for them, against Jace and Clary's advice as they know that can't happen and that the Shadowhunters will be dealt a lethal blow as they try to reason with the monsters that wear their loved ones faces.

During all of this, Simon and Isabelle's relationship has yet to be determined, even though Clary has recommended it multiple times to both parties. Alec pines for Magnus as Magnus secretly pines for Alec.

Maia struggles with a secret that she has to tell Jordan when Simon is stolen out from under their protection and they have to visit the Praetor Lupus for help where they (unfortunately) run into none other than Sebastian.

I honestly feared for every one of my favorite characters lives as I read through this book, even though I had already seen the series.

I was bitterly disappointed in the series when I read about Sebastian's death as the book humanized him and I honestly cried so much when he died (I know! It sounds crazy but you'll understand when you read the books!)

There were a few things throughout this series that they changed which I felt were better in the books but overall I really liked the books as well as the series and I am grateful to Clare for her incredible writing skills and her ability to bring an entire world to life within our own.

In short, this book was a roller coaster of emotion and it was worth every second.

Thanks for reading xx