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City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5)

Cassandra Clare

Start date: May 1, 2012

Finish date: May 31, 2012

Discussion: Monthly Reads!

Discussion leader: Jon

Why we're reading this: Picked by your monthly leader Jay! COLS follows up where COFA left off. COLS is book 5 in the compelling …more
[close] Picked by your monthly leader Jay! COLS follows up where COFA left off. COLS is book 5 in the compelling Mortal Instruments Saga!

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Jan 05, 2012 Terri ♥ (aka Mrs. Christian Grey) rated it really liked it

Shelves: audio

Quick review:

Cover: Okay
Rating: R
Thumbs Up: 4
Overall: There is so much going on it’s hard to be bored
Characters: Fantastic
Plot: Jace faces an identity crisis and Clary as always does her best to save him.
Page Turner: Yes
Series Cont.? Yes
Recommend: Yes
Book Boyfriend: Jace

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I’d put off reading this book for a while because of the audio narration. But a long car ride and I relented. Let’s just say that the story itself while predicable at times was entertaining and wo ...more

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Dec 16, 2011 Ninzy Flores rated it it was amazing

Shelves: owned, best-author, romance, wishing-it-s-series-would-never-end

First of all, I was freaking out when I saw this book. I was in another place where books are twice their usual price. ~~Curses:(!~~. But I bought it anyway. For what reasons? For the same reasons that kept me eager when a topic about this series has been brought up or for the endless hours researching for short stories and keeping them in a dresser and printing out pictures, pasting them in my closet made especially for them-- [that's what I do to my other precious books]. And yeah, like I said fro ...more

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Apr 24, 2020 Jessie rated it it was ok

What can I say, motherfu**ing Clary Fray! Enough said.

I originally read the first four books back when the buzz of the t.v. show was going on. Every since my mentality has changed and I noticed a lot of the decisions made by the main character in this book were just annoying.

I probably will get to the last book after finishing the other books on my pile.

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