City of Fallen Angels REVIEW!!

 "City of Fallen Angels takes place two months after the events of City of Glass. In it, a mysterious someone’s killing the Shadowhunters who used to be in Valentine’s Circle and displaying their bodies around New York City in a manner designed to provoke hostility between Downworlders and Shadowhunters, leaving tensions running high in the city and disrupting Clary’s plan to lead as normal a life as she can — training to be a Shadowhunter, and pursuing her relationship with Jace. As Jace and Clary delve into the issue of the murdered Shadowhunters, they discover a mystery that has deeply personal consequences for them — consequences that may strengthen their relationship, or rip it apart forever.
Meanwhile, internecine warfare among vampires is tearing the Downworld community apart, and only Simon — the Daylighter who everyone wants on their side — can decide the outcome; too bad he wants nothing to do with Downworld politics. Love, blood, betrayal and revenge: the stakes are higher than ever in City of Fallen Angels."

 from goodreads.com

3.5/5

ALRIGHT, so I wanted to start by saying that I LOVED City of Glass, HOWEVER; I wasn't a fan of City of Bones ( I don't think many people were) this one to me was more like City of Bones. I really could have done without it. I was happy to see that Cassandra Clare continued the series, I just wish it had the awesomeness that COG had. The relationship between Clary and Jace didn't seem to develop anymore from the last book, it actually seemed to take a step back. While reading this I felt that this book is just a filler for the rest of the story. The important stuff in this book took up MAYBE 50 pages, the rest was just filler. If you are looking for action in this book, there is definitely not much.

There were quite a few things that I did like bout this book. I liked that the villain was somebody different, I had a feeling that Valentine was gonna come back as a demon or something (thank goodness he didn't). Of course just simply because it's part of The Mortal Instruments series. There were a few plot twist that I didn't see coming, part of it being the things with Simon.

• There was WAY to much Simon in this book ( I know it was told before the book even came out that there was gonna be more Simon, but I didn't think it was gonna be that much). I honestly didn't care what happened with him, and how his life turned out. I did understand why he was in the book so much and why he was important to the story line. Simon as a character was..I don't even know how to explain him. He was a lying, cheating, no good SOB. He shoulda gotten it a lot worse then he did. I can't believe that Miss. Clare let him off the hook like he was.
• Now to the two characters I wanted to know the most about. Clary in this book seemed different then she did in the other three, she didn't seem as hard headed. She did seem a bit more whiny then normal (that seems to be my favorite word). She's training to be a shadow hunter, but doesn't seem to take it seriously.
• Jace was VERY bi-polar like in this one; but he did have kind of the same quality in the other one. One minute he would be so in love with Clary then the next he wouldn't want anything to do with her. You do find out later in the book why this is, but it is kind of annoying when you're reading. I wanted to scream at him at the end of the book, I know he didn't have a choice of what happened but !!!!!.
• In my opinion there was not enough Magnus, he added such a "flair" to the first three books but that wasn't in this one. Him and Alex finally show up about 200 pages in, and then don't have that much page time. There whole "page time" is pretty much taken up by Alex throwing a fit, like a two year old (or a teenage girl).

Of course if you've read the other three, you should read this one. If you are satisfied with the way COG ended you could just stop there.

Torment by Lauren Kate Review

"Hell on earth. That's what it's like for Luce to be apart from her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel. It took them an eternity to find one another, but now he has told her he must go away. Just long enough to hunt down the Outcasts - immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the rocky California coast with unusually gifted students -Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans. At Shoreline, Luce learns what the Shadows are, and how she can use them as windows to her previous lives. Yet the more Luce learns, the more she suspects that Daniel hasn't told her everything. He's hiding something - something dangerous. What if Daniel's version of the past isn't actually true? What if Luce is really meant to be with someone else? The second novel in the addictive FALLEN series . . . where love never dies."

from goodreads.com

Length: 452 Pages (hardcover)

Published: September 28th 2010

Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Rating: 3/5 Stars

Alright! So I figured since I have nothing else to do and I'm a terrible blogger I oughta make it up to y'all with some new reviews.

First let me say that I wasn't that impressed with Fallen, the first book in the series, so I knew right off the bat that this wasn't going to be the best book ever; however I had to read it so I could find out what happens.

So in this book Daniel and Cam have some kind of agreement that they won't be enemies for so many days, I believe that it was 15, so they can both look after Luce; who they have moved to a new school in Fort Bragg, CA. The name of the new school is Shoreline and it is also a boarding school, but some of the students here are in special classes being taught by a demon and angel couple! Luce makes new friends, Shelby and a boy whose name I can't remember; and her an Daniel get in this big fight. So during the whole book you're reading about Luce trying to figure out Daniel and learning about her new friends. She also learns many new things about the "shadows".

I thought the characters in this book were so whiny and self absorbed I almost gave up on reading it! Luce, like in the last book, was so annoying; everything had to be about her and what she was going through. After only a couple days at the new school she was going off campus, which she was told not to do because there were things that wanted to kill her. We can't forget to mention Daniel. He was super controlling in this book, if Luce didn't do exactly what he said he threw a huge hissy fit. Shelby, Luce's roommate, seemed almost bi-polar. One minute she was fine with Luce and Daniel, then the next she couldn't stand to look at him (I realize she had a reason, but I wish that was told at the start!).

The ending did come as a surprise, but I felt like it was a stupid ending. Who would do that? I know she wants to know more about her past, but why risk your life to learn about it?

Passion the 3rd book in the series comes out June 14th 2011 and the 4th book Rapture comes out sometime in 2012.

50 Book Challenge & New Years Resolution

I know a lot of people are doing the 100 book challenge instead of the 50 book. However, since this is the first time I'm actually gonna attempt to do this I'll stick with the 50.  Since I'm currently reading Swoon, I'm not going to count that one. Ruined by Paula Morris will be my first book.

So my New Years Resoultion this year is going to lose weight, just like 90 something percent of other people. I'm going to create a different blog to keep track of that. I'm going to TRY to blog atleast twice a week, with how my week is going!

I hope everyone has a SAFE & HAPPY New Years!