We open this chapter with Clary and her mother walking down the street, then immediately flashback to everything that happened since the end of last chapter.  No reason for the jumping around, the book just…enjoys using the past perfect tense?  Even though writing several pages in past perfect is both clunky and really hard to…

This chapter opens with the book’s favorite tropes all in one!  Dreams, angels, and ice!  Clary dreams about Jonathan and Jace standing around on a frozen lake while sprouting angel wings.  Does it have any point or purpose besides showing off that the book thinks it looks pretty?  …well, none of her other dreams have…

Clary goes on and on about how the person she saw was unmistakably Jace, because he was acting just like Jace.  Then they go on about how Jace wouldn’t be all buddy-buddy with Jonathan unless something was up.  So…it stands to reason that he wasn’t acting “just like” Jace, doesn’t it?  He may have been…

This chapter starts off with more descriptions of what people are wearing.  Is this going to a thing in this book?  It feels like it’s going to be a thing.  I feel some hate coming on. Simon goes home and find Maia and Jordan both getting on his case about talking to his sister, since…

Bear with me, people.  I’m in the land of spoty internet again.  Hopefully I’ll find a way to get on the internet every day, but don’t be surprised if instead I show up every few days and dump a bunch of chapters at once. Simon looked down at his wet jeans and T-shirt (a wrinkled…