
It was nice to see Clary start to kick a little butt after being somewhat passive (though not a damsel in distress) in the previous three books and start to experiment a bit with her new power.They both had me cracking up with their back-and-forths and, lookie there at the “friendship” developing right before our eyes. One of my favorite relationships in the book was the newly developed “bromance” between Jace and Simon.Jace was torturing himself thinking that he was not worthy of Clary’s love and began to hang out with Simon. It was like a secret within a secret within another secret. He was having gruesome nightmares of killing her. But Jace was also keeping a secret from Clary. Clary and Jace have kept a dangerous secret to themselves in Jace’s resurrection from the dead.


City of Fallen Angels picks up a few weeks after the events of “City of Glass and there was a false sense of security tangible amongst the characters after the sinister Valentine had been defeated (and killed) and I should have known that Cassie was going to take advantage of that.
