AMAZING!!! ( )

This was even better than the first. I look forward to reading the rest of the series. There are a lot of battles in this one. Jace is as sarcastic as ever, all the other characters are even funnier than before. In this one you also meet Maia a young werewolf. She was a little annoying sometimes but helped make a great plot. There is a ton of action and adventure. The last 80ish pages were by far the most thrilling part of this book. There are so many 'What the heck?' moments in this. I highly recommend this!!! ( )

Clary’s life has been turned upside down -- demons are real and her mother’s in a coma. She’s getting closer to Simon and her newfound brother Jace. But she’s ready for it all to go back to normal. But someone in New York City is murdering Downworlder children -- is her father, Valentine, behind it? I’m actually writing this review from the vantage point of mid-way through book 5, but this series is frustrating. I’m enjoying it -- a lot -- and the tension is high -- but it feels like the actual plot is subsumed by the romance sub-plot more often than not. And I mean, I’ve barely done *anything* but read this series since starting it last week. I don’t think I’m going to write separate reviews. But seriously -- Clary and Jace need to be cut a break at SOME point. Gah. ( )

Se possibile, ho trovato questo secondo volume più prevedibile del primo. E, date le varie allusione non troppe velate, credo che renderà prevedibile anche il terzo.

Continua naturalmente l'amore di Cassandra Clare per lo spiegare al lettore per filo e per segno perché i suoi personaggi agiscono in un certo modo. Maledizione, sembra un medico legale alla ricerca del DNA dell'assassino! Pensa forse che i suoi lettori non siano abbastanza intelligenti da capire le motivazioni dietro i comportamenti dei vari personaggi? Bah...

Il culmine credo che l'abbia raggiunto con la faccenda di Simon al ritorno dalla Corte Seelie... in quel frangente la Clare non ha mostrato, ha solo spiegato... e la conseguenza è stata la sensazione che manchi un pezzo di libro...

E poi c'è il Grande Dramma. Jace e Clary sono fratello e sorella. Sì, come no... Se avevate dei dubbi in proposito, la Regina della Corte Seelie vi fa la gentilezza di toglierveli tutti. Quindi non si capisce perché questa faccenda sia tirata così tanto per le lunghe...

Si ha infatti la sensazione che questo secondo libro serva ad allungare il brodo per portare certi "nodi" in Città di Vetro cosicché la Clare possa sparare i fuochi d'artificio per lo spettacolo finale. ( )

A book and a half about a boy trying desperately to force a girl to love him, to change into the girl he wants her to be, and throwing fits when she doesn't do it. And he's the 'nice' guy. Can we... can we just stop telling young women that this is romantic? That stubbornly ignoring 'no' isn't loyalty? That insisting you be who they want you to be isn't love? That the pain of your rejection isn't a horrid wrong you have to right? That growing and becoming as a person and loving whoever you love isn't a betrayal? I'm so tired. ( )