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    City of Fallen Angels
    City of Fallen Angels
    City of Fallen Angels
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    City of Fallen Angels

    Written by Cassandra Clare

    Narrated by Ed Westwick and Molly C. Quinn

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    Trust is dangerous, and to love is to destroy. Plunge into the fourth installment in the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and “prepare to be hooked” (Entertainment Weekly)—now with a gorgeous new cover, a map, a new foreword, and exclusive bonus content! City of Fallen Angels is a Shadowhunters novel.

    The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She’s training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And—most importantly of all—she can finally call Jace her boyfriend.

    But nothing comes without a price.

    Someone is murdering Shadowhunters, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second, bloody war. Clary’s best friend, Simon, can’t help her—his mother just found out that he’s a vampire, and now he’s homeless. When Jace begins to pull away from her without explaining why, Clary is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: she herself has set in motion a terrible chain of events that could lead to her losing everything she loves. Even Jace.

    The stakes are higher than ever in the #1 New York Times bestselling fourth installment of the Mortal Instruments series.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateApr 5, 2011
    ISBN9781442334670
    Author

    Cassandra Clare

    Cassandra Clare is the author of the No. 1 New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Shadowhunter Chronicles. She is also the co-author of the bestselling fantasy series Magisterium with Holly Black. The Shadowhunter Chronicles have been adapted as both a major motion picture and a television series. Her books have more than fifty million copies in print worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Cassandra lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and three fearsome cats.

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    • 1/5
      I love the book, hate the production. The narration skips many parts (that I read before). You miss very important parts of the story. SUPER DISAPPOINTED

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    • 1/5
      I can't even listen because I do not like this guy's voice. So unfortunate.

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    • 2/5
      Great book, but no so good narration. Buy the book

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Book was great but I didn't like the female narrator. Her voice was too squeaky I suppose.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      The male narrator was so monotone I couldn't listen to it longer then 5minutes, one of the worst voices I have ever had the displeasure of hearing. I guess I will be physically reading this one myself.

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    • 3/5
      Book is good I just wish they hadn’t changed the readers every book or two :(

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    • 1/5
      The Narrators voices were distracting. It was a bad choice.

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    • 2/5
      I just really found this one to be lacking. The story didn’t excite me like the previous three books. I found myself waiting for it to finish instead of enjoying the story.

      I really am not a fan of the change in narration to Molly. It took much of the book for me to stop being irritated by her narration. In my opinion, she is very whiny.

      Sorry for such a negative review, but it’s my honest opinion.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Possible spoilers and LOTS of rambling ahead:
      So...to be honest I had no intention of finishing the series because I had read more bad things than good reviews about books 4-6. But then I read The Bane Chronicles and some of the Shadowhunter Academy and I just needed closure on Simon's story arc, Alec and Magnus, as well as Luke.
      I read this mostly to see what went down with Alec and Magnus. They were pretty much absent from 85% of the book which was irritating, but at least there was a lot of Simon.

      I'm beyond pissed that Isabelle thought it was perfectly cool that she was casual with Simon and dating other people, but was so pissed that he was doing the same thing. And to be honest, it had nothing to do with the fact that it was someone she knew. She's so full of herself that she couldn't believe that anyone--especially nerdy Simon--could be interested in someone other than her. I love that Isabelle is hella confident with herself and her body, but she and Jace have that ridiculous arrogance in common. It seems as though this turn of events put her in her place, and maybe she's rethinking her behaviors. I certainly hope so, because I was routing for Simon and Izzy once I realized that Clary and Jace's relationship was inevitable *gag*.

      As for Magnus and Alec, his upset over Magnus' past truly shows his lack of age and experience. I've never understood people's morbid curiosity about heir partner's past. The past is the past. It happened before you knew them so what has it got to do with your current relationship?! And Magnus is hundreds of years old, of course he's had many, many paramours, duh! And should he be lonely because his lover died or left him? He told Alec that before him he had been alone for a very long time, shouldn't that have told him that Magnus didn't just jump from relationship to relationship? Just because your heart aches for one you lost, doesn't mean you can't open your self to someone else. And it certainly doesn't negate the feelings you had for the one you lost just because you move on. I have to say it bothered me, but to me it was very good writing. Alec is young and naive and completely inexperienced with life and love, so it does make sense for him to have this reaction. I have to say I would have been disappoint in the author if she made him completely cool with his former relationships.

      I'm actually not looking forward to what is to come because I've been spoiled and know he basics of what's coming in the next book. But I want to see the whole progression and not just all the good stuff. Here's to hoping the author gifts me with proper angst and not just the wah-wah-Jace-Clary show. I am so over them. Jace is arrogant and a damned martyr; it's ridiculous! And Clary never stops to think about anything except how much she needs Jace. I get it, when you love someone so much nothing else matters, but don't get butt hurt when people call you on your selfishness, because it IS selfishness. Don't get me wrong, I'd burn down worlds for my beloved, I'd just be much more awesome about it. But then, I'm not a 16-year-old girl, so I suppose Clary can be forgiven. But it's still annoying as fuck!

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    • 3/5
      Honestly, Clary, Simon and Jace have just been getting less likeable as the book has gone on, quite the opposite of what is supposed to happen with character growth. Add to that that the story wasn't as interesting as the first books in the series, and I was quite let down. The first two and a half books dealt with legends and folk-tales, but now that the angels are interacting with the humans every other month, the inaccurate angelology is bothering me. What was with the stupid claim that Adam had a first wife who wouldn't obey him? If Eve couldn't even obey God to not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, how can Cassandra Clare expect us to believe that Eve would obey Adam? The story of Genesis is interpretable as a parable, but I honestly don't know how it could be interpreted the way it was in this book. I will probably finish this series because I enjoyed the first two books so much, and I will probably give to new series a try since everyone on booktube seems to be raving about it, but if I don't start to leave these books feeling satisfied, then I will probably stop forcing myself to read them. Even via audiobook, this book felt long.

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    • 1/5
      Learn how to spell words and and names before you read the book

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    • 5/5
      O. M. G. This book. Is so. AMAZING. Cassandra Clare continues to bring on all the action, drama, violence, and yes, romance, that she always has, making you inhale the pages. There were so many twists and turns, surprises and betrayals.....I don't even know where to begin to describe this marvelous book.Summary:With Valentine dead, things should be clearing up for the future. But with Simon's Mark of Cain, there are multiple predators that seek his power, his blood. And as Shadowhunters, past-Circle members, at that, are killed off, Clary stumbles upon multiple clues that lead her to some things that may best be kept hidden. Alec and Magnus are at a road block in their relationship, and Jace is haunted and torchered every night with dreams that may be more than just things you wake up from.Comments:I am such a book nerd. The day this came out, I had my mother bring it to me at school, just so I could have it in my hands as soon as possible. And I had reason to have felt that way. This book is so enticing, so magical and surprising, bewildering, frightening, shocking, so, beautiful, that you literally want to start rereading it after you finish it. If you haven't read this series yet, there is something seriously wrong with you. I am currently Googling when the next comes out. May 2012. Not soon enough.
    • 5/5
      Terribly good! I couldn’t put it down for a second.
    • 3/5
      I liked the voices. Simon, maya, ans Isabel are great ! And Magnus and Alec
    • 4/5
      I love the series but I just didn’t like how they wouldn’t pronounce some of the words right
    • 3/5
      Shifting from a Clary focus to being more balanced between her and Simon, this entry starts a new trilogy of Shadowhunter books where they deal with life in a world restored. The new big bad is named Lilith. For those of you up on your apocryphal Judeo-Christian lore, yes, it's that Lilith, first wife of Adam. She's a demon. She's evil. The kids have to stop her.Like a lot of YA books, this reads faster than it looks like it will because of large font and big margins. Enjoyable, but details won't stick with you.
    • 1/5
      I tried. I tried so hard to finish this book, but, for the life of me, I just couldn't. While writing this review, I realised something: I've never given a book 1 star before. This is a first, and what a shame it happens to be a book from a series that started off so well.I enjoyed the first three books of The Mortal Instruments series, and it's a shame Clare didn't stop there. I held on as long as I could, but this book was doing my head in. What happened to the characters I came to know and love from the first three books? These clones in City of Fallen Angels lacked personality. Like Simon's current existence, these characters were living but were not alive. It was almost as if Clare removed their souls and left the empty shells behind.This book lacked purpose. I can easily through it out and have no regrets because it left no impression on me whatsoever. It hurts me to give any book a 1 star but the fact that it's a book I was looking forward to just left me heartbroken. It was almost as if City Of Fallen Angels was written by someone else. This can't be the same Cassandra Clare who wrote the first three books.I could go in depth and point out the hurt this book has inflicted upon me, but I won't because of my loyalty to the first three books. I will not be continuing with the series for the mere fact that it has lost its spark and its significance.
    • 4/5
      I've read some reviews on Goodreads, and it seems like people either love this book or loathe it. I'm somewhere in between, but I learn toward loving it. I read the first three so quickly. Her writing does that to me - I cannot put the darn book down, I find myself reading ahead and have to force myself to stick to the current line I'm on.After I picked this book up from the library, though, I had to read a summary on the first three because I honestly could remember very little of what happened. Valentine wanted to kill Downworlders, Simon became a vampire who could walk in daylight, Jace and Clary thought they were siblings or fa while, they took Valentine out in the end. . .did anything else happen? Yes, apparently, quite a lot, and I actually had to call my 13 year old sister to ask her, 'Wait, who are Jace's parents again??'Anyways, as predicted, I read this book in a few sittings. Just like when I was fourteen and I was so friggin excited when she'd update Draco Veritas and I'd soak up those words as quickly as I could (though I later learned the words weren't all hers lol), I couldn't put this book down. Well, I did a few times because I had to sleep or go to an appointment, but you get the idea.The book picks up six weeks after City of Glass. Clary's mom and Luke are getting married. Simon is trying to adjust to vampire life, being made offers and also being attacked by strange men. Clary and Jace are training and kind of happy, but not really. Strange things are happening, though - someone is killing Shadowhunters, and someone else is messing with human babies. The crew does their individual research, and they find out that it's all connected by a darker evil than they could have imagined. Yeah, I never said I was really good at writing blurbs, okay?Is it perfect? No. Are Clary and Jace melodramatic? Yes. Does some of the dialogue make me cringe? Yes. Regardless, I thought there were some very intriguing ideas here, and I liked how the plot played out. Plus Simon makes this book very awesome. I love seeing more of him, and even though he was getting a little whiny towards, I think he's finally getting it together by the end. I think at times Clare tries to chase after too many subplots (do I care about Alec and Magnus? No, actually, I don't. And I care about Maia and Jordan only a little bit more). I think if she went deeper into just a few characters, it'd be better.Some people thought the plot moved slowly and had too much dialogue, but I thought it was a reasonable pace. Not everything can go a million miles a minute, and I thought it was a lot more like "real life" even with the demon babies and pillars of salt and everything.I'll be watching for the next installment, and Clockwork Prince (and I liked her little nod to that world!). Who knows? I might even go read the first three again. It'll probably be like reading them for the first time since it went straight through me last time.Sidenote: I don't really like this cover. Clary's eyes look weird. And is that supposed to be Simon? What's with the arrows??Second sidenote I forgot to add: I like Clary. She doesn't wait around for people to save her, but she's also not invincible. Yes, she mopes over Jace, but it doesn't inhibit her from everything. She was probably more preoccupied with Jace in this book than others (although I could be wrong considering I hardly remember the others). I still like her.
    • 5/5
      wow i did not expect everything that happened!! I had low expectations for this book because of the other people's review. It is a little bit slow, but I was not bored. It was romance heavy. We get to see a lot of simon and Maia.ABD THE ENDING!!! OMG!! I loved this book! Although it wasn't my favorite book in the series.
    • 4/5
      Looks like while Valentine is dead, someone is plotting to continue his legacy. Clary and Jace are caught right in the cross-fire. I’m actually writing this review from the vantage point of mid-way through book 5, but this series is frustrating. I’m enjoying it -- a lot -- and the tension is high -- but it feels like the actual plot is subsumed by the romance sub-plot more often than not. And I mean, I’ve barely done *anything* but read this series since starting it last week. I don’t think I’m going to write separate reviews. But seriously -- Clary and Jace need to be cut a break at SOME point. Gah.
    • 2/5
      Someone needs to tell Cassandra Clare to stop, just stop trying to sell books by using her successful Immortal series. The Immortal series was a great read and the last book left the reader an ending with a few questions, but those could be accepted. However, Clare decided that she needed to write three more books, more money?, and is taking the story for three more books, City of Fallen Angels being the first of the three. Someone is killing the inner circle of Shadowhunters and blaming the Downworlders. So the usual characters, Shadowhunters and Werewolves do the usually investigating and fighting. Jace and Clary are finally, together, but then they are not together and it is so exhausting. Yes, tension is good in a story, but this has turned into a tension headache. The story of Simon, friend of Clary, and Vampire with the mark of Cain, as in Cain who killed his brother Able in the Bible, is much more interesting. I enjoyed that part of the book, but for the rest of it, simply familiar characters with none of the strength of the first three books. I will pass along the first three books as enjoyable books to read, but I not be spending my money, nor will I suggest that others spend their money on any of the next three.
    • 5/5
      A great continuance of a wonderfully written series. The audiobook gives even more life to beloved characters.
    • 3/5
      3.5 stars!!!! simon and clary still annoy me soooo much but i loved the scene at the end with magnus ?
    • 3/5
      Liked the book, although it was slow to get into it. It got better once it hit its stride. Looking forward more to Clockwork Prince than the next MI book.
    • 5/5
      So good!!!! I loved it. Although it seemed like it could have been a separate series (Clare had planned on only writing three books), I think it still works.
    • 5/5
      I LOVE this series. I'm so sad it only took me a few days to read. I can't wait for the next book.I really like how Simon has become since being turned. The relationship between Jace & Clary is frustrating because I wanted to see it evolve but Jace and his guilt holds him back. Kyle or Jordon is a nice addition to the story. I don't like to give anything away in my reviews so I'll just say again I LOVE the Mortal Instrument series.
    • 2/5
      To make a long story short, I believe Cassandra Clare should have stopped with the third book. This fourth book in The Mortal Instruments series, feels like an afterthought. Perhaps more like residue from the first three books. Essentially the plot didn’t pick up until about 75-80% into the book, and even then it still focuses on the same old hoopla of the “love” of Jace and Danger-prone Clary. I’m honestly getting tired of reading about their whirlwind romance, and I’ve learned to just skip through those constant descriptive parts. I can say that I did enjoy the fact that Simon plays a stronger role in the series, as he learns how to make better use of his new found powers. In this book we are also introduced to several other new characters, such as Kyle and Maureen, of whom I suppose will play bigger parts in the next books in the series. In all I found the book full of air, albeit with stratus clouds of quick action scenes. I wasn’t in favor for the slow plot development (if you want to call it a development) and I’m not totally convinced I should seek out any future TMI books. I felt very content when I thought that the third book, City of Glass, was the end. I will, with great enthusiasm, be in search for The Infernal Devices series, as I hear those are great books.

      First Line: “‘Just coffee, please.’” (3)
      Last Line: “We are one” (424)

      Quotes:
      “‘Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other side, forever and tragically parted, but I’m not worried about that either. Some things,’ Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, ‘are just too unlikely to dwell upon.’” (77)

      “‘You left me,’ he said. ‘You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.’ He spoke matter-of-factly. It had been a long time.” (259)

      “You never told me. Never warned me it would be like this, that I would wake up one day and realize that I was going somewhere you couldn’t follow. That we are essentially not the same. There’s no ‘till death do us part’ for those who never die.” (377)
    • 5/5
      It capture from start to end, I loved it!
    • 3/5
      Things I liked:

      1. It's like a TMI spin-off featuring Simon (who has fast become one of my favorite characters in the series).

      2. Isabelle/Simon. hohohohoh way to go, Clare, pairing off the two remaining characters without a partner, but oh well, you did it well, and this is my favorite ship so far.

      3. Clary is slowly becoming a take-control over girl, and not merely the damsel in distress. Quick thinking about ruining Jace's rune, but that wasn't enough. With a character like Clary, though, it's a big improvement

      Things I didn't like:
      1. Jace and Clary's love story has become even more angst-ridden. I liked the incest-related angst, but seriously, I could slap Jace for looking for more excuses to be unhappy.

      2. Seriously, after the fight ended with Lilith, why oh why did they just leave Jace alone with Sebastian???? You would think that after all they've been through (the Valentine episode and the more recent episode with Lilith), they'd be more paranoid, and effin make sure Sebastian was secured, if they can't kill him. But, no, they left Jace, who's still pretty unstable, alone with Sebastian. It's like watching the girl in a slasher film walk around the house in the dark, knowing there's a killer around there somewhere. Sheesh.

      This was a pretty enjoyable read, mostly because of the Simon parts. But I think making a book after the trilogy ended was unnecessary. Yes, I really think it was unnecessary. I liked the trilogy but enough is enough.
    • 5/5
      Without being too spoilery, I'm still on the 4-ish bent.

      And I'm noticing that I'm really happy we're sticking with most prominently the Clary or Simon Pov. Yes, we shift through Isabelle, Maia, Alec, Magnus, Jace at times. But we're still reading The Everyman Story of Clary and Simon, who used to be perfectly normal in a perfectly normal world -- and aren't, which goes in so many different directions.


      I'm already predicting things into the next two books, out of some really simple things said in this book, that all of which were not related to the plot of this book. But would surprise me to know end to see how important they turn out later. Given how the first three books worked like that a lot, too.


      My heart goes out to Jace, but then that probably surprises no one.