The Mortal Instruments: City of Lost Souls

Okay so I'm kind of annoyed with myself for not writing this post straight after finishing as I have started the final book in the serious so I'm going to find it difficult to think about CoLS. 

Overall I really enjoyed this book and found it extremely difficult to put down and due to this it took me around a week to read, that may seem a long time to some readers but I'm not the fastest when it comes to reading. 
Anyway on to why I liked this book, I loved how we got to learn more about other characters rather than just the main ones and the development of relationships really allowed you to feel as if you knew the characters. For example we where able to see how Simon and Isabelle's relationship would develop and it allowed us to learn more about Isabelle's past and why she finds trusting people so difficult, this allowed me to feel as if I knew Isabelle and she became a lot more real.
I found Maia and Jordans relationship quite difficult to accept and often found myself thinking that Maia is making a mistake taking Jordan back, I'm not going to go into in much detail as I don't want to ruin it for anyone else. In a way I sort of wish that they decided that they couldn't be together as I would have shown Maia's strength regardless of the pain she felt.
In the books leading up to this one I have loved Alec and Magnus' relationship, they where so cute and I though it was great that Cassandra Clare developed a gay relationship as it made the story more realistic. However Alec was so annoying in CoLS and I found myself wanting them to break up because it was just so irritating and I wish he hadnt changed into such a bitter person it just didn't suit him.
In terms of the main focus of the book involving Clary, Jace and Sebastian I really enjoyed a lot of the aspects such as Valentines house and the different places that were visited in this book. Sebastian is so evil and I really do love to hate him, he makes my skin crawl but I see that as a good things as it has really allowed me to connect to the character and I feel like I know him. In terms of Jace I found myself wanting to scream with frustration he was completely under Sebastian's control and nothing Clary did or said would change that, I found myself smiling when 'Jace' and Clary had a special moment and then I would remember that he's not really Jace, it was so frustrating but perfect at the same time. When the real Jace came back for a short amount of time I was so excited and it made me realise how much I do love his character and I hated that for the majority of the book we didn't get to see that.
In terms of the amount of action I kinda of feel that at the end was kind of rushed and I felt that all the action was saved for the last chapter or so. However I did enjoy how the book ended and thought that it was a good plot twist.
Overall I really enjoyed this book I'm sorry if this review isn't very good my mind is completely focused of city of heavenly fire and I'm finding it hard to tare myself away from it. I'm about half way though it so a review should be up soon.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Fallen Angels

Okay so this is going to be my first book review, I was going to do it another day but I thought this would be a good time to do it seeing as I finished the book today. This post will probably be a bit all over the place because I have never do this before so bare with me. 

So overall I really enjoyed this book and towards the end found it very difficult to put down. I read a few reviews after reading and noticed that many people didn't like it as much I did and were giving it one out of five stars. In my opinion that's pretty harsh and although its not a five out of five book I feel that many people have taken the book to seriously. 
This isn't a serious book that is meant to leave you questioning your life afterwards, its a light hearted book that is easy to read and enjoyable.Obviously its not going to be for everyone but if you enjoy the type of books with vampires, werewolves, demons, fairies the lot then this book is for you. It has everything and left me satisfied afterwards and needing to read the next book. 
In terms of characters I feel that there where some good and bad points. In the last three books I have loved Jace as a character and have been wanting the romance between him and Clary to blossom, however in this book I found him quite irritating and needy. I felt like every conversation between Jace and Clary involved him saying that he didn't deserve her and that he's a monster and Clary simply responding with 'I love you Jace and only you blah blah blah.' To begin with it didn't really bother me but when it continued throughout the whole book it did become slightly boring. I did feel sorry for Jace because you could really see that he was suffering but in all honesty me wanting him to be helped was so that he would shut up complaining. 
In terms of the other characters I was pretty happy, I can safely say that I still love Simon be it human or vampire, he made a few mistakes in this book but I just couldn't stop caring for him. A lot of the time I find myself forgetting that he is vampire just because of how helpless he can be but that's what I love about him. The whole way through I was routing for Simon and Isabelle to make up, they are just so cute together and a lot less annoying that Jace and Clary, sorry it has to be said.
There where a few characters that appeared in this book that kind of confused me such as Camille, Jordan and Lilith, it confused me that all three of these characters had never been mentioned before and it sort of felt like they where added to fill holes. Does that make sense? I don't know. For example at the start of the book it seemed like Camille was going to play quite a big role but by the end of the book I didn't really understand why she was in the book. I'm hoping that her story will carry on in the next book.
Overall I am pretty happy with this book and although there are a few things in the book that left me confused or wondering why, I am still happy with the book as a whole and feel that its not the type of book to be taken seriously like many other readers seem to have done. 

Thanks for reading my review I hope you enjoyed it and comment below with what you thought.