“I’m not like Valentine. I don’t want to be like him. I won’t be like him…but his father had taught him that to kill without mercy was a virtue, and maybe you could never forget what your parents taught you. No matter how badly you wanted to. I won’t be like him.”
In City of Lost Souls, the fourth in Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series, we are still faced with the on/off relationship between Jace and Clary, evil doers, and conflict between the shadowhunters, mundanes and downworlders. Is Valentine really dead? Will Jace and Clary be FINALLY together? What/Who is the new evil facing the world? Will Simon adjust to being not only a vampire, but one who can tolerate daylight?
Maybe I am just burnt out, but this one was far too soap opera-esque for me. While it was still an entertaining novel I tired of the whole Jace-Clary “love” drama. Again it was entertaining, but I’ll likely take a break from this series for a while. I’ll still read the last two since I already bought them and just hope that the storyline moves forward.
“I’m not like Valentine. I don’t want to be like him. I won’t be like him…but his father had taught him that to kill without mercy was a virtue, and maybe you could never forget what your parents taught you. No matter how badly you wanted to. I won’t be like him.”
