Mortal Instruments
RATING: ✰✰✩✩✩ 2/5
GENRE: Fantasy
AUDIENCE: Age 13+
"Shadowhunters are the Angel's weapons. Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive."
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Summary (mainly regarding the last book of the series):
When Valentine is killed, his literally half-demon son, Sebastian, is “revived" and creates a new race of “dark” Shadowhunters to rule the world. It is “a story of Lightwoods and Herondales and Fairchilds.” Jace Herondale, Clary Fairchild, Alec and Isabelle Lightwood and Simon travel into the demon realm to save their loved ones and the world from Sebastion.
This series should have ended at Book 3. The antagonist has already died. Everyone is happy. I feel like Cassandra Clare is trying to rip us off and lure us into an unhealthy consumerism lifestyle. Even if you want to sell another spin-off series, at least make it more subtle.
This is the kind of book that would have you riveted when you are actually reading the book. When you put the book down, or have better things to do, the book is not very interesting.
Some things I dislike about the book:
1. The deaths are just meh. Six characters die. Guess what? They die, but no one really cares enough.
2. The ending is way too predictable and happy.
SPOILER:
Everyone is happy. Everyone’s love life is 99% perfect. Simon is pulled back into the world of Shadowhunters (I was ecstatic at first when I read about this but then I realized it took away the suspense and tiny regret that should come from every book)… Sebastian dies. They are saved from the demon realm of Edom. Yay, everyone is happy. Way too satisfying to be actually satisfying...
3. Every chapter we hear about the angular curve of Jace’s face and how handsome Clary thinks he is. Gee, we get it, Jace is hot, enough is enough. For the first few times, it was cute, but then it just got soppy and irritating.
4.
SPOILER: When Sebastian dies and the evil burns out of him, he says he feels so light… Okay… We get it. There is no need for books to take away the implicit meanings and make them so explicit.
5. There are a lot of meaningful topics covered, but they are crammed to the last few chapters of the book.
◆Sidenote: Jace is a replica of Edward Cullens from Twilight.
A handsome arrogant guy that falls for the “normal” girl? Yeah, are you talking about Edward or Jace?
In the last installment of the book, Jace still struggles with his self-identity. Is he a Herondale, Morgenstein, Lightwood, or Wayland? The Wikipedia explains the rather confusing last names more confusingly.
“Jace Christopher Herondale (also referred to as Wayland, Morgenstern, and Lightwood, known as the brother of Clarissa "Clary" Adele Fray and sometimes referred to as Jonothan in early series)”
Gee. Okay…
At the end of the day, who you are isn’t defined by a name. People should decide for themselves who they are. “Freedom [to choose] is not a gift, it is a birthright”. The people who are related to you doesn’t necessarily define who you are. “We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us.” And... That's the moral of the story.
Free will: In the book, the Shadowhunters who have turned to the “dark side” are no longer considered Shadowhunters because even though they wear the same faces, but they don’t have the free will to choose. Shadowhunters are Shadowhunters because “Freely we serve, because we freely love”.
“Because the world isn’t divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything.”
I love these quotes!!
Love: Jace and Clary. Simon and Isabelle. Alec and Magnus. These are all different kinds of passionate love.
The connection between Jace and Clary gnaws me away. It seems like they are born to be together. Definite soul mates.
Alec and Magnus’ relationship is on a thin line. Magnus the warlock is immortal, while Alec the Shadowhunter is mortal. Magnus doesn’t open up and tell his past to Alec.
In the end,
Magnus decides to open up to a healthier relationship.
He says, “If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful--if I kept them all inside, my memories of them would start to disappear. And then I would disappear.”
You could relate this to the happiness of finding someone who you could share everything with.
It is a lesson about loving, “it is better to love and fear than to feel nothing. This is how we petrify.” Not everyone finds out that your other half is immortal, but time is limited, so Carpe Diem. Make everything count.
The movie version of the City of Bones should have gotten better reception. You have Zedd, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Jessie J, Tove Lo, Owl City singing the original soundtrack… Yet, nearly everyone reads the books first. Hmmm…
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