Our sweet oblivious boy Simon doesn’t realize that Izzy needs comforting too, but Iz feels like she owes a debt to Clary because she saved Jace’s life at Lake Lyn. Jordan informs her that Simon spends most nights comforting Clary. Iz shows up to Simon’s apartment, but he’s not there. The reality of possibly losing a second brother begins to crack Isabelle’s tough exterior. Not to mention that Izzy is still grieving the loss of her little brother Max, making the idea of losing Jace that much worse, especially as the Clave turns away from the search for Jace to worry about downed Wards. She goes after guys who she already knows won’t commit, so that they don’t have the power to break her heart like her father did to her mother. In my last blog post, I went over how Izzy’s view on love is heavily influenced by the burden of keeping the secret of her father’s affair. But even the baddest of bitches break down sometimes.
And Clary is lost in the battle between Good and Evil, which evidently is not as black and white as she and Simon once thought, as she comes face to face with her blood brother who’s determined to prove that they are more alike than she thinks.
Izzy is losing herself in love, realizing that opening your heart to others may be scarier and more dangerous than slaying an entire army of demons. Alec is emotionally lost as his desperation to find a way to spend eternity with Magnus leads to troubling advice from a former lover that causes rifts in their relationship. Jace is physically lost and, even worse, bound to Sebastian (aka Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern) by Lillith’s Mark and forced to do his evil bidding. Here are my thoughts on City of Lost Souls.įirst, I wanted to point out how this is such a perfect title for this book as so many of these characters are lost souls in their own way.
In the end, I’ve decided to split this post into two and rename it “All My Thoughts” because I had way too much to say. I just couldn’t straighten my thoughts out enough to make a coherent post, but I tried my hardest. It actually took me longer to write this blog post than it did for me to read the whole book. I read this installment so fast that at times I felt like I was 15 years old again, reading The Hunger Games for the first time, trying to finish the trilogy before the first movie came out. Despite this being my first read through, it gave me a weird sense of nostalgia. City of Lost Souls, the fifth book of Cassandra Clare’s series The Mortal Instruments, manages to be both heartfelt and heartbreaking, making me cry not once, but twice.
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