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  • City of Heavenly Fire: Part 28

    There’s one more chapter and an epilogue left.  Let’s see how long it takes me to get through them. Today we start with putting the fairies on trial.  Oh, wait, sorry, first we start with a crapton of descriptions. the Downworlders who also shared the table: Luke, representing the werewolves; a young woman named Lily,…

  • City of Heavenly Fire: Part 27

    Emma and Julian sit around in shock that Julian killed his own dad while all the evil bad guys fall over dead.  I’m still wondering how they had a moment of peace to even start doing that, but otherwise…I got nothing, it’s a pretty meatless little scene. Over with Clary, Jonathan is still having the…

  • City of Heavenly Fire: Part 26

    Back with Emma, the doors of the building they’re in burst open and all sorts of maniacle bad guys pour in.  Someone warns Emma with a “Watch out!” She whirled, and screamed. A faerie warrior was looming above her, decked in silver armor; his hair was not hair at all, but a ropy tangle of…

  • City of Heavenly Fire: Part 25

    Today we start by following Emma, who is traveling with the group of other kids to the Guard, where hopefully they’ll be safe during the fight. Helen, who was carrying a witchlight in one hand and her crossbow in the other I think the weirdest thing about their insistence on arcane weapons is that…they’re literally…

  • City of Heavenly Fire: Part 24

    The kids arrive at Bad Guy HQ, where…there’s a crowd of evil shadowhunters just standing around?  Why?  Are they like weird robots who have a standby mode?  Shamble-zombies when there’s nothing to hunt?  What are they doing? Jace tells Clary to cover her hair because it’s too iconic/recognizable, but Isabelle’s whip and Alec’s bow are…