This chapter opens with Jace insulting a cab driver, then getting on the phone and ‘barking’ orders at Alec, telling him to meet them for breakfast in the rudest way possible.  Because…sexy?  I can’t for the life of me figure out why I’m supposed to root for a guy that’s intentionally as rude as possible…

Clary, naturally, protests the idea that her mother was part of the magical KKK.  Hodge goes on to say that, basically, everyone we’ve heard about in this book so far was part of the Circle.  Jace’s father, Alec and Isabelle’s parents, Hodge, Luke, everyone.  Hodge and the two parents didn’t leave the group, they just…

He fixed her with eyes as opaque as smoked glass. How did I miss this in the last chapter?  Smoked glass is not opaque.  In fact, any kind of glass is not opaque.  Eyes are opaque by default.  Why would you take something that’s already opaque, and then describe its opaque-ness with glass? Jace says…

Clary falls through white space and lands painfully on the ground.  Is this how the door is supposed to work?  Seems like a pretty shitty way to get around.  Hm, maybe it’s just for emergencies.  She was knocked backward. A forehead banged against hers, her knees banging against someone else’s. Tangled up in arms and…

Dorthea’s apartment is a mirror image of Clary’s even though it shouldn’t be.  See, Clary’s apartment building is really just a huge house that got sectioned off into apartments.  When was the last time you saw a house that had an identical upstairs and downstairs layout?  Yes, I’m sure it got renovated in the conversion,…