City Of Ashes – JenniElyse

Title: City of Ashes
Author: Cassandra Clare
Series: Mortal Instruments #2
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult
Spice: 0.5 / 5
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 453
Reason Read: Play Book Tag
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Also in this series: City of Bones, City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls, City of Heavenly Fire

My Thoughts

These books are seriously intense. There’s a part of me that wishes I would’ve read this series as each book was published so I could wait and let the adrenaline coursing through my body ebb a bit. Then there’s an even bigger part of me that’s glad I didn’t have to wait between each book as it would’ve been torture.

CITY OF ASHES was probably even more intense than the first book because I knew the characters and I was way more interested in what happened to them. The feelings the characters went through along with the intense situations occurring around them made this book so action-packed that I felt like I needed an inhaler to help slow down my breathing and a sedative to relax my nerves.

At this point, I can’t wait until I read CITY OF GLASS so I know what happens. I’m worried that the story isn’t going to end the way I want it to, that the conflict between the two main characters can’t be resolved the way I need it to be. But, I’m starting to see how things will turn out because of Clare’s amazing ability to foreshadow so there’s still hope.

Update: When I read this for a third time, I listened to the audiobook and really enjoyed it. I thought Natalie Moore did an amazing job with each of the characters. The structure of the audiobook was a little weird, though. The version I listened to didn’t have individual chapters. It was all one big chunk of audio.