“I don’t even want to want anyone but you.”
“i belong to you. you could do anything you wanted with me and i would let you. you could ask anything of me and i’d break myself trying to make you happy.”
this book is my second favourite in TMI. i’ll now give a summary of it. (gosh it’s such a rollercoaster)
remember how the second book ending with a mysterious woman named madeleine telling clary she knew how to wake her mother, jocelyn up? well, the only way that can be done is by finding the warlock ragnor fell. he’s been alive for like a thousand years – literally. he wants to help clary out. mostly because he is in good terms with the fairchilds. and so clary plans on going to idris (the hometown of all shadowhunters) in order to find fell. jace doesn’t want clary to go and wants to convince simon to argue clary out of going. just as they’re having this argument in front of the portal jace will step through (to go to idris), forsaken warriors (possesed shadowhunters under the command of valentine) attack them. simon gets injured and jace instantly pulls him into the portal (which isn’t a very great movie considering the fact that simon’s a vampire.) they leave clary out in the middle of all the chaos (which is very convenient for jace.) she then creates a portal with her special rune-making power, and steps through it with luke, her stepdad. the only issue is that her portal making hasn’t been perfected yet, and so they fall into lake lynn. it’s healing for some creatures but not shadowhunters. clary gets it in her mouth and starts choking, blacking out. luke takes her to amatis’ (his sister) house outside of idris, and she’s told to stay out of idris since she isn’t there legally. after some time, she’s taken to the penhallow’s mansion and there she meets sebastian & another girl. she instantly feels this strange connection to sebastian. however, she quickly forgets about it when she walks in on jace making out with another girl. jace gets furious about clary coming to idris and quickly sends her away. but obviously clary doesn’t listen. when sebastian tells her that he could take her to ragnor, she jumps on the offer. unfortunately, they find out that ragnor has been murdered by valentine a few hours ago (sad). but instead, they come across magnus bane; the high (& hottest) warlock of brooklyn. he tells them that there’s a spell that could help them, but it’s hidden inside a book that’s inside valentine’s house. so yeah, it’s a bit of a death mission. but we all know someone who’s in love with the idea of dying (cough*apartfromwillherondale*cough): no one other than jace herondale. they go to their daddy’s house and find an actual angel there that had been imprisoned by valentine for many years. the angel shows clary some images before showing her how they can free him. he shows how jace was fed demon blood before he was born. and they both fall silent as they realised jace is part demon. once they do, the angel kills himself.
“it explains… why i feel the way i do about you.”
they then return to idris, only to find it in flames. it’s not supposed to happen but somehow demons have gotten into idris and they’re wrecking the whole place down. a lot of people die and luke then suggests (as the head of the werewolves in the court) that downworlders and shadowhunters make an alliance. the idea is not very appreciated until clary tells them that she knows a rune to combine pairs of downworlders and shadowhunters to be extra powerful. as the city prepares for a battle, jace goes off to find valentine. when he does find him, he’s confronted by sebastian. he tells him that valentine isn’t jace’s biological father. (*the whole fandom takes a deep sigh of relief*) he’s some other shadowhunter’s son that valentine fed an elixir to. and sebastian then tells him that he’s actually valentine’s biological son, and that he was given demon blood before his birth (unlike jace who was given angel blood through the elixir.) they have a massive sibling-ish fight, and sebastian dies. (oh well) while jace fights for his life, clary suddenly realizes what valentine’s plans are, and she opens a portal to lake lynn. she sees valentine there, calling upon raziel (their angel) with the mortal instruments. jace arrives before valentine can complete the ritual. they fight and valentine kills jace. clary is shocked, so moved, frustrated and horrified that she finds the power inside herself to make a new rune. this shows her as the one who summoned raziel, therefore he’ll only accept a wish from her. he also kills valentine for being such a pain in the ass. clary wishes for the resurrection of jace.
“you could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me.”
there are celebrations now that both sebastian & valentine is gone, and jocelyn & luke finally commit to one another. now that they know they’re not siblings, jace & clary commit to one another as well. happy ending. …right?
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