O terceiro e último volume da edição de colecionador 2 em 1 de Os Instrumentos Mortais, série campeã de vendas da Galera Record e um fenômeno editorial.
Nessa versão condensada dos 5º e 6º livros da série, Clary fica horrorizada ao descobrir que a magia de Lilith, um demônio muito poderoso, ligou Jace ao perverso Sebastian, transformando o Caçador de Sombras em um servo do mal. A Clave decide destruir Sebastian, mas não há nenhuma maneira de matá-lo sem levar Jace também. Clary e seus amigos, no entanto, não vão desistir. Os Caçadores de Sombras precisam se unir em meio ao caos para enfrentar Sebastian, cujos poderes colocam tudo em risco. E agora eles terão que viajar para outra dimensão para conseguir uma chance de impedi-lo. Vidas serão perdidas e sangue será derramado nesse último volume, onde nada é certo e até mesmo o destino do mundo pode ser mudado.
Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Tehran, Iran and spent much of her childhood travelling the world with her family, including one trek through the Himalayas as a toddler where she spent a month living in her father’s backpack. She lived in France, England and Switzerland before she was ten years old.
Since her family moved around so much she found familiarity in books and went everywhere with a book under her arm. She spent her high school years in Los Angeles where she used to write stories to amuse her classmates, including an epic novel called “The Beautiful Cassandra” based on a Jane Austen short story of the same name (and which later inspired her current pen name).
After college, Cassie lived in Los Angeles and New York where she worked at various entertainment magazines and even some rather suspect tabloids where she reported on Brad and Angelina’s world travels and Britney Spears’ wardrobe malfunctions. She started working on her YA novel, City of Bones, in 2004, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan, her favourite city. She turned to writing fantasy fiction full time in 2006 and hopes never to have to write about Paris Hilton again. Cassie’s first professional writing sale was a short story called “The Girl’s Guide to Defeating the Dark Lord” in a Baen anthology of humor fantasy. Cassie hates working at home alone because she always gets distracted by reality TV shows and the antics of her cats, so she usually sets out to write in local coffee shops and restaurants. She likes to work in the company of her friends, who see that she sticks to her deadlines.
City of Bones was her first novel. Sword Catcher is her most recent novel.
Jace is under Sebastian's control, and if he kills him he will also die. So the group needs to find a weapon that is capable of separating the two without killing Jace. And still discover Sebastian's plans and have to do all of this hidden from the Clave, because if the key finds Sebastian it will kill him and they won't spare Jace.
This was the book I found Clary least irritating, she's thinking more before acting and less selfish, more rational. In this one she was just a teenager in love, crazy and desperate for Jace.
Simon didn't give me any reason to want his death either, he finally did something useful.
I'm really enjoying Sebastian as a villain, he raised the series, which was pretty silly.
City of Heavenly Fire
No one knows where Sebastian is, after he fled with his twilight warriors, Jace is safe and heavenly fire burns within him. The clef doesn't believe in Sebastian and his evil chalice, but everything changes when Sebastian finally acts by decimating institutes by institutes and leaving zero survivors. When in California a group of children survives to count the key, then the Clave decides to flee and hide in Iris, all hunters are forced to go to idris. With the club fighting and not knowing Sebastian's plans, he attacks again, capturing the members of the Underworld and leaving the Shadowhunters without allies in the War. and that's when Clary and her little group, tired of waiting for the Clave, go on a mission after Sebastian and put an end to the war once and for all.
Once again a good read, without angering Clary and Simon. gained judgment. It may seem like they didn't have a plan, but they had a pretty good plan. Everything works out in the end
I just felt that the last 10 chapters were kind of confusing and messy, and could have been better worked, stretched too far, could have tidied up the journey and organized their steps better.
The ending is very satisfying, very fairy tale, everyone happy. It opened up to the expanded world of Shadowhunters. I've been wanting to read dark tricks. And I, who didn't like Jem's piercing eye before, ended up sympathizing with him and better accepted the epilogue of infernal plays.