City of Glass ~ Cassandra Clare (The Mortal Instruments #3)
★★★★☆
I was almost tempted to leave the 5 star rating for this. Out of all of the first three of this series, it is by far the best, but also sometimes tends to feel like 2 different books. The first of those books is silly and lacks real stakes, but is entertaining enough. The second knows what it is and knows that it wants to tell a story, and best of all, it knows what story it wants to tell. Unfortunately, these two books don't mesh well. We have a protagonist who is an idiot. Said idiot protagonist does idiotic things, gets reprimanded for said idiotic things, and goes around said reprimands, never really learning her lesson. The book is asking us to believe that sometimes inherently bad things might not be so bad, but then says that those things were actually good all along, and that the really bad things make themselves known almost immediately. This wouldn't be a bad message if it didn't give me so much whiplash.
But I did really enjoy it, and I love Sebastian's character, so while it is no longer a 5 star read for me, 4 stars is a very good rating.
(Original rating: 5 stars)
A great ending for the first half of the series, full of twists and turns and all sorts of excellent imagination!
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