What price is too high to pay, even for love? Plunge into fifth installment the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and “prepare to be hooked” (Entertainment Weekly).
The New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments continues—and so do the thrills and danger for Jace, Clary, and Simon.
What price is too high to pay, even for love? When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is … When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith’s magic has bound her beloved Jace together with her evil brother Sebastian, and that Jace has become a servant of evil. The Clave is out to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy without destroying the other. As Alec, Magnus, Simon, and Isabelle wheedle and bargain with Seelies, demons, and the merciless Iron Sisters to try to save Jace, Clary plays a dangerous game of her own. The price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace’s soul. She’s willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost?
Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series.
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excellent book, beautifully written Cassandra Clare plucks the reader from their seat and slips them into a whole new and intriguing world that she herself has invented.
It’s a really good book and very page turning not suitible for people under the age of 12 due to kissing and romance.
Loved all the City books and the Clockwork books too.
I enjoyed this book better than the last one. I especially liked reading the scene where Isabel asks Simon to stay with her the night and Simon is hungry.
Lilith’s demon magic has bound Jace and Sebastian. If one gets hurt, so does the other. This also means that if one dies, so does the other. Clary comes up with a dangerous plan to find out what exactly Sebastian is planning while the others try to find out how to separate the bond between Jace and Sebastian.
Clary has made some stupid decisions in the past and although this one is dangerous, I was totally on board with it. Jace is definitely different being bound to Sebastian, but there were some parts that I liked about it. He was more relaxed and just kind of went with the flow. A very likable Jace.
I like the relationship between Magnus and Alec, but Alec gets on my nerves. He is so stuck on things that Magnus has done in the past that he can’t focus on the love Magnus has for him. His reactions to things hurt Magnus and made me want to slap him.
Izzy and Simon – If they don’t admit their feelings for each other soon I’m going to scream.
Once again the Downworlders come together to fight Sebastian and the end result is predictable, but not disappointing. There are so many unanswered questions that it makes moving onto the next book immediately almost necessary.
I know that I am big time in the minority here with only two stars and my opinion.
I think this story could have ended with book four. Everything else has just seemed to drag on and I have lost interest in anymore drama the author can think of.
This book also has a higher sexual content than the others. There is more thought, desire, fourplay, and behind the door sex scenes (homosexual and heterosexual) that I didn’t finish it.
I love this book and the rest that go with it
Series is great fun easy reading
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This one was much better than the last one. Lots of action. Jace and Clary still can’t catch a break. Really the span of the whole series they are apart pining for each other with like a few weeks here and there that they can actually be together. Teenage angst at it’s highest. I really wish she would have let them be together a little more in this series. I understand it’s a ya series but if you want them to be this awesome powerfully connected couple that you just can’t forget then they actually have to be a couple for a little bit of time. Just sayin’! I think they were together more in this book then in the last 4 but it was still tainted since Jace wasn’t really Jace. I was glad that Clary started to finally kick some butt. She has been pretty wimpy standing around while everyone fights and gets hurt in the last 4 books. This one she was trained and kicking butt with the best of em. Loved Simon even more in this book. He is such a great guy and brave. I just wish him and Izzy would get together they have such a strong connection. I was so glad Simon’s sister didn’t turn her back on him like his mother. I was so disappointed in Alec. I don’t know what the hell was going through his mind in this book but he was way over the line. I don’t blame Magnus at all for ending things with him. Although that break up scene was so heartbreaking.
I don’t really know how I feel about Maia and Jordon. Jordon I think is great and Maia too but I don’t really feel it with them together Idk. Sebastian was gross, creepy and evil all in the same breath. Jocelyn truly gets on my nerves. She is the most unsupportive mom ever. I get so mad that she doesn’t like Jace she doesn’t even give him a chance. No wonder Clary runs off and does things herself her mom is an over the top jerk that lies, treats her like she is 2 and doesn’t like the love of Clary’s life. Poor Luke, losing his sister getting stabbed and almost dying. I’m really liking Brother Zachariah, but I wonder why he seems to want to help Jace so much. Is there some connection there? Was it just me or was everyone else happy to see Magnus’s ex Camille bit it too! I’m on to the last one and I can’t wait to see how things end!
Awesome series, highly recommend! Love the New York modern-day setting, and all the characters – Shadowhunters, demons, warlocks, werewolves, faeries, vampires, etc. The romantic aspects of the book are all interesting and don’t detract from the plot. This series is very hard to put down and will have you hooked from start to finish!
Loved it could not put it down.
Liked it better the second time I read it. The end of a great series. Maybe.
As always, this installment of The Mortal Instruments kept me enthralled to the very end. I was sad through the beginning, nervous and anxious through about all of it, and now I just can’t believe my rotten luck that I have to wait to 2014 for the next one. Cassandra Clare’s world of nephilim and downworlders leaps off the page at you and creates this universe that you just don’t want to put down. Since book one, Clary and Jace have remained in my head for weeks after finishing a book. The struggle between good and evil, the romance between many characters, the heartbreak of defeats and the joy at triumphs, these books are epic.
I love this book. It helped me through the hardest time of my life! I was struggling through a divorce and being the single parent of 4 children. I would say this book saved my life!