Well, we’ve finally made it to the last chapter.  At least there’s some promise of an actual climax, unlike City of Bones, where all we had left to deal with was family drama. Clary thought of the night she’d stayed up watching Jace’s chest rise and fall, thinking how she could end all this with…

Trigger Warning: this chapter continues to discuss rape. Clary doesn’t actually stab Jonathan, she just stabs the floor next to him.  How…cliché.  Seriously, no one was thinking she might have actually done it in the “cliffhanger” line last chapter.  She tells Jonathan she can’t kill him because it would kill Jace.  And…as the victim of…

Trigger warning: this is the chapter with a rape attempt in it.  Methodically and carefully Clary was tearing Jace’s room apart. So, this is a pet peeve of mine.  Technically, “was tearing” is perfectly acceptable.  It’s not passive voice, and it’s grammatically correct.  But…it’s annoying.  What’s wrong with just saying that she “tore” is room…

Simon is at the farmhouse, still trying to talk to Clary through the ring.  It’s been…how many chapters now since we were promised an angel-raising?  I can’t even remember.  And yet there’s been so much mindless padding that they can only progress with this plan by baby steps.  In one chapter, they come up with…

You guys, you guys, you guys.  This chapter has music lyrics.  I’m not one to belittle fanfiction as a medium, as I write it myself and absolutely love doing so.  There’s a difference between fanfiction as a writing style and fanfiction as a medium.  One is just writing a work of fiction based on something…