City of Heavenly Fire – Cassandra Clare

City of Heavenly Fire, an amazing book written by Cassandra Clare, is probably the most romantic book in the series, due to a couple of very hot scenes that probably might give you readers literal horripilation running down your back, like the feeling you get when a plastic bag touches your ankle and its whispers blending in with the susurrus of the soft breeze. Honestly though, I may have painted an uncomfortable picture right there in your mind, so I apologize for that graphic image… Anyway, you should really read this book, not just for the steamed scenes, but also for the other amazingly written parts that Cassie has gone into high depth about, and also for the satisfaction of finishing 1 or 2 subseries (if you include the Infernal Devices) of the Shadowhunter Chronicles

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Ok so first, I want to address the Malec Breakup issue. Damn, was I sad when I found out that Alec and Magnus had broken up. It was a heavily rainy day when I had read that part, and as I always do with any young adult book, I keep a box of Kleenex tissues next to my feet, and a small Puffs box next to my bookshelf, in case Kleenexes can’t restrain the force of my tears coming out like a waterfall. BACK TO THE POINT: it was like I was actually listening to Alec and Magnus’s conversation about how Alec should’ve never tried to make Magnus mortal, or himself immortal, just so that he and Magnus could be together forever, and when it got to the breakup point, I cried as hard as the volcano that had a bad hair day and erupted all over Earth, scattering debris and harmful air to the Earth’s atmosphere, just like me when I threw the book across the room and hit my sister in the arm, but I was too shocked and sad and filled with ruptured emotions and a broken heart to care.

Anyway, I think that when Alec, Izzy, Simon, Clary, and Jace ventured into the Fair Folk hideout, they could’ve been a bit less stealthy, and barged in like they owned the place. Of course, they DID do that, just near the middle of when they actually went into the Court and basically ruined a festival that the Seelie queen was hosting, and she screamed at them to get out of their hideout and leave the ‘premises’. That was already horrible enough, but I kind of felt better when Jace and Alec held the queen at knifepoint, making sure that she promised to not tell Sebastian, (Clary’s evil brother), where they were, but you probably already know the Fair Folk; finding loopholes in literally everything.

Anyway, the Seelie leads them to 3 paths, where Alec suddenly knows what to do from a song he heard that’s basically a folk song from the Fair Folk, and he leads everyone to Thule, which is a demon realm that’s a darker, scarier version of the actual universe.

I think that overall, this book was good, but the ending was so terrible, I can’t even- I cried even harder than usual when I found out that Si- uh, never mind… but in general, the book was written beautifully, with sentences that bloomed like flowers and roses in my heart, but also had the thorns and poison that the rose does too, giving the sense of dark red and black scattered everywhere in the realm…

Sorry, I went off on a weirdly unrecognizable tangent over there… so I think this time, my favorite character would be Alec, who is literally the least straight person in this entire book, and he gets so paranoid, so slightly sad when Jace and Clary start to kiss, or Isabelle and Simon kiss, and I feel like his poor heart is getting shattered again and again when he thinks about Magnus, or the good times that he had with him too. I feel his sorrow greatly, the place in my heart which I reserved only for Alec, but I seriously wanted him to get back together with Magnus again, seeing that he was literally never as happy as he was when Magnus wasn’t with him anymore.