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so the second book in this serie is City of Ashes. it’s a bit complicated, so you guys might wanna take a seat.
in the first book, clary’s mom is put into sleep & kidnapped by valentine morgenstern. clary then learns that this evil man who she hates & despises in the most extreme way possible is her father! yay!! also, valentine is the #1 villain in the shadowhunter world. his plan is to summon demons and create a world where there’s no joy, no love, no friendships, nothing. if you’ve ever seen that phineas & ferb episode where they go into this alternate universe and doofenshmirtz rules everything and everyone works in domestic labour and there are scary robots roaming around the streets, asking for id’s and hurting people, that’s it. he wants to be the doofenshmirtz of this world. he wants demons to roam the streets. and well, there’s a universe where that does exist (& it’s called Thule), but that’s a whole another thing. anyway, so valentine’s trying to summon demons. and not only are they dangerous enough, he’s trying to summon Agramon. the fricking FEAR DEMON. meanwhile, izzy, jace & alec return from a mission and find maryse (their mom) has returned from alicante (their hometown) in which she had been during the whole first book. maryse instantly gives jace the “you’re dead” look that ONLY moms can give and she asks for jace to swear that he’s loyal to them. she thinks jace is working for valentine, since HE’S ALSO HIS SON! (clary & jace as siblings! fun!!) when jace doesn’t swear because valentine’s still his dad, there are a few family crises. okay not a few. a LOT of MAJOR crises which even cause jace to run away. luke (clary’s stepdad who’s also the leader of a vampire clan) finds him and asks clary to talk some sense into him. she does and he returns back to the institute, next to maryse. maryse then calls the shadowhunter headquarters to come and get jace and then he’s locked down in a jail cell deep down the ground where there’s no light and the big colons everywhere are made of dead shadowhunter ashes. real classy move maryse. when people go there to rescue jace, they see that valentine has actually came there and got jace out. then they’re invited to Faerie by the Seelie Queen. all i can say is, everyone who has gone there deserves a “i survived my trip to Faerie!” tshirt. jace & clary are forced to share a kiss (supposed to be disgusting right?? oh well…), they also learn that they both have superpowers, simon turns into a vampire, they meet maia & raphael, they find out about valentine’s evil plan which contains getting the mortal sword & cup, summoning demons and having full control over them. uh-oh. they return back to the shadowhunter land where jace is imprisoned again and the inquisitor tries to make a deal which will probably involve getting jace killed 100%, doesn’t work, alec backs his ass (classic) and they get out. clary has learned that her superpower is creating new runes. that’s supposed to be impossible!! by this point, everyone’s been attacked by a demon for at least a hundred times and they FINALLY realise that valentine is the main enemy. they go to a boat in which valentine’s supposed to be, the war begins. clary creates a “fearless” rune which literally makes you fearless and a shit ton of things happen. simon dies (again), jace saves him, simon drinks his blood, BOOM. jace’s angel blood + simon = he is now a daylighter. he can go out in the sun. izzy fights demons off without getting anything on herself (the badassery!), alec backs jace’s ass while fighting, iratze’s are applied, clary and jace go after valentine, can’t find him. finally, clary makes a rune that sinks the whole fricking boat. the war has ended (for now), and valentine’s gone. again.
in the epilogue, jace tells clary that they’re sibling & can’t be messing around, and on the final page, there’s this mysterious woman called madelaine who calls herself jocelyn’s (clary’s mom’s) friend and says that she knows how to wake her up. boom the end.
okay so this book has definitely been INTENSE. so many cliffhangers, plot twists, wrong relationships that we can’t help but ship *cough*clace*cough*. it makes you want to get lost in the pages and you don’t even want to wait for a second after the book ends. it’s gripping, fluent and just straight up beautiful.
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