Review: City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments #6) by Cassandra Clare

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
Publication: May 27th, 2014
Series: Daughter of Smoke & Bone series
Pages: 725 (Hardcover)
            733 (Paperback)
   

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Synopsis:


Sebastian Morgenstern is on the move, systematically turning Shadowhunter against Shadowhunter. Bearing the Infernal Cup, he transforms Shadowhunters into creatures out of nightmare, tearing apart families and lovers as the ranks of his Endarkened army swell.

The embattled Shadowhunters withdraw to Idris - but not even the famed demon towers of Alicante can keep Sebastian at bay. And with the Nephilim trapped in Idris, who will guard the world against demons?

When one of the greatest betrayals the Nephilim have ever known is revealed, Clary, Jace, Isabelle, Simon, and Alec must flee - even if their journey takes them deep into the demon realms, where no Shadowhunter has set foot before, and from which no human being has ever returned...

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Teaser Tuesday #3 - City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read

• Open to a random page

• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

It's starting!!: City of Lost Souls Rereading Day 1 - Prologue

Welcome to the first day of the City of Lost Souls Rereading, a kind of revising for the release of City of Heavenly Fire that I host, and I'm happy you've come. As you are here I suppose, you know what City of Lost Souls (CoLS) and City of Heavenly Fire (CoHF) are, but if you happen to not, I'll tell you. Both are parts of The Mortal Instrument series by Cassandra Clare. This is one of the several series by her featuring Shadowhunters, whose job is to maintain the piece among the supernatural species and even humans, who by the way know nothing about none of the above mentioned, and kill demons. 

     

Prepping for City of Heavenly Fire - City of Lost Souls Rereading

So it has only a loose month left until the release of City of Heavenly Fire, the last installment of The Mortal Instruments series. I don't know about you but for me it's like an end of an era. I'll miss Clary and Jace and their intriguing story, nevertheless I know we don't have to wait too long for the next Shadowhunter series. On the other hand I'm incredibly excited to get to know how they will vanquish Jonathan in the end and how their lives are going to be after the life-changing final battle. However fortunately Cassie won't give it easily, the City of Heavenly Fire is 733 pages!! So she made sure we'll have sufficient before ending her first, historical Shadowhunter generation.

Although this is the longest book of the series, all the installments are quite a lot long. They are also very intricate, intriguing, full of twists therefore you have to know every single little whiff to be able to fully enjoy and understand everything. To top of these, the last novel was published a rather long time ago. Hence, I would like to organize a big rereading! It would be useful, wouldn't it? Everybody can join, please join, the more people the more fun and would it be delightful to discuss it alone? Or with one or two people? No. Just no. So please join and spread the world so that more people can participate in it. The guidelines are the following:

Guidelines:

1. We are going to start it on May 1, Thursday.

2. We should read one chapter every day. It's not too much, is it? The chapters aren't long.

3. You can read it in any format.

4. We are going to discuss each chapter here on Rebook424.

5. You can join one any day if you cannot do so on May 1.

6. I'll be posting a short review of every chapter, that's going to be the beginning of the discussion. The discourse is going to be below the post in comments. You can write a short review, too, but please link back to the site.

7. Please, spread the word in order that more people could join and so to make it more fun! No matter whether you share it on Facebook or Twitter or elsewhere, write a post on your blog, do as you want to, as long as you do.



Am I gonna see you here? I hope so. :) See you later alligator.

Updates from Cassandra Clare (CoHF, a brilliant fanart & more CoHF)

"CoHF

Hi, is everyone really gonna die in the last book of the Mortal 

Instruments? — deansgirl27

Everyone is not going to die in the last book of The Mortal 

Instruments.

I feel like there’s been a lot of character death floating around in 

random media lately (Homeland, Teen Wolf, various) and I have 

been seeing much sad. Which I totally understand because 

character death often sends me off to bed with a fluffy cat and 

an ice pack.

I have said that six people whose names we know will die 

in City of Heavenly Fire. (And there was a big banner that said 

WHO WILL SURVIVE across the teaser cover but to be fair I 

didn’t come up with that one!) And I can see how that would be 

nervewracking.

I guess what I can say is:

1) I do think all the deaths matter. None of them happen for 

shock value or no reason or to get across the message that death 

is random.

2) No ladies are fridged.

3) While some deaths might be surprising (?) — there is a big 

war going on so I don’t think the fact that some characters die 

will actually be that shocking. 

4) My goal is not to destroy lives or drown anyone in a bucket 

of feels, just to tell an enjoyable story and create an end point 

that hopefully people will feel does justice to the story that came 

before. 

5) I don’t want anyone to feel jerked around. I want things to 

feel earned and meaningful. I am not a fan of nihilism — which 

is not really an overall judgement call, just a preference. The 

ending is not a despairing one. I believe in hope! I really do. I 

hope this calms some of the more trepidatious fears.  I guess 

time will tell — two more months — how it all works out, but 

that’s the goal!

And now, a gratuitous picture of my cat looking at my husband. 

WHO HAS FLUFFY TINY PAWS? (Josh, of course.)"

"The Letter"

Hi Cassie! I have a question regarding The Bane Chronicles: 

remember when there was going to be an instalment called 

“The Letter”? Can you tell us what it was supposed to be 

about and/or why didn’t you end up writing it after all? 

Thanks, and love you! xx — you-are-not-trivial

It didn’t wind up being in the Chronicles because it wound up 

being worked into City of Heavenly Fire instead. You’ll know 

the scene when you see it.

We wound up with Alec and Magnus’ first date instead which I 

think was more fun all around. :)"

"Sizzy"

"City of Heavenly Fire signed

Hi Mrs. Clare :) Is there any news on the b&n signed pre-

orders yet?? Will it be a special pre-order? I’m so paranoid 

I’ll miss the link and not get one! lol I would be gutted if I missed the chance to buy the signed copy… My cat is 

named after Church so I’m keeping my fingers crossed I get Church sketch copy when I order! Any update info would be appreciated, and thank you for being so amazing ♥ x — chelle-ma-belle

Could you please make some more signed books. <3 i 

really want one. :P — hippytrippie

Is it still possible to get a signed copy of CoHF? If not, 

where can I order the normal one?

— flyingbluedragon

——— 

The signed copies from Barnes and Noble that I posted about 

two weeks ago unfortunately sold out in a few days. They 

are gone and they won’t be replaced because what I did was 

sign “tip-in pages” — kind of like what John did with Fault 

in Our Stars — which means signing pages that will later be 

bound into the book when it’s printed. The books are being 

printed now so it’s too late to do more.

I work with one indie bookstore, Books of Wonder, in New 

York, owned by Peter Glassman, that stockpiles signed copies 

of my books — I go in whenever I am in town and sign 

them. Peter has hooked me up with signed Harry Potter first 

editions, so I owe him. Also it’s a fabulous indie bookstore 

that should be supported. :)

I will be going into BoW the day CoHF pubs and signing 

copies for them. I’ll try to put some Church sketches in. If 

you want one, you can always contact the store via email or 

phone and place an order. In fact, they have a big old 

banner about it on their frontpage:

http://www.booksofwonder.com/

(They do ship internationally, etc, you just have to call 

them.)

As for where you can get the normal one: any bookstore, 

Target, Walmart, Costco, Amazon.com."

source: http://cassandraclare.tumblr.com

Miscellaneous

There are quite a few things that piled up in the last few days, so I'll be making a mixed post. It's going to be about publishing dates of the books by Jennifer L. Armentrout this year, upcomig book signings of her, and Cassandra Clare: The City of Heavenly Fire news.


In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned how many books will be published this year by Jennifer L. Armentrout. Now, I'm bringing the exact dates of the publications.

 

Books That We Are Insanely Looking Forward To Read 1 - City of Heavenly Fire

Hi, Dear Reader. How are you? Thank you for reading my very first book-related post on the blog. The idea of writing about books that we can't wait to read conceived in my head when I finished reading Origin, the fourth book of the Lux series just yesterday. The next book is going to come out in August 5 and I'm not entirely sure if I can wait until than, since this is on of the worst cliffhanger endings I have ever seen. By the way cliffhanger endings. The first book I'll be presenting to you is City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare. She is a brilliant author who is the uncrowned queen of our loved cliffhanger endings, (although I've been thinking about that Jennifer L. Armentrout is seriously trying to beat her) and has a reputation for being keen on torturing her readers with revealing mocker informations about deaths and break-ups and other crucifying things. But let's start with the beginning.