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  • City of Heavenly Fire: Ch 3

    Clary, Jocelyn, and Luke all settle into Amatis’s abandoned house.  Luke is, of course, distraught at all the reminders of his missing sister, and Jocelyn comforts him. It was more comforting than in any way romantic, but Clary still felt as if she had stumbled on a private moment. I feel like this is everything…

  • City of Heavenly Fire: Ch 2

    Hey, guess what, apparently Emma is going to be a pretty major character.  This chapter kicks off with her, too. Sucks for people who were more interested in the Clary/Jace crowd.  Since, you know, they spent money expecting those people and got this kid instead. Emma wakes up in Idris to find Helen (Julian’s sister…

  • City of Heavenly Fire: Ch 1

    This review was originally written and posted in July 2014. Over in New York, we meet up with Jordan teaching Jace to meditate.  Apparently being imbued with holy fire has made Jace rather antsy, he’s looking for a way to calm down, and physical exercise couldn’t do the trick. There is, of course, much banter…

  • The One: Chs 31 – End

    America spends the remainder of the fight locked in the safe room. I cannot tell you how utterly unsurprised I am at this turn of events.  Of course the ‘climax’ of the series would simply be America sitting in a dark room, thinking about romance, preparing to be badass but never actually doing so.  She…

  • The One: Chs 29-30

    The entirety of Ch 29 is just the letters Maxon wrote to America while she was away.  The first one rhapsodizes about the joys of being a Five, which really highlights a big problem with this world and the caste system.  It wants to use the system as a boogieman and highlight the rich/poor dichotomy,…

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