Sunday, May 4, 2014

The Mortal Instruments Reread (Sort Of)

The end of this month will see Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series conclude with the sixth book, City of Heavenly Fire. I admit that I'm a bigger fan of her Infernal Devices series, but TMI was my introduction to the Shadowhunter world, and I'm still a bit sad to see it end.

I read the first four TMI books pre-blog, and rereading them and reviewing them have always been near the top of my blogging to-do list. It bugs me whenever I see the link to Book 5 in the Review Archive, there all by its lonesome self. I need to fix that.

My original goal was to start rereading the series from the beginning last month, but as with any plans I make lately, time has not been cooperative. So here we are in May, and I'm only just now getting around to City of Bones. Oh well. And, as the following image illustrates, I'm only rereading four of the books:

City of Lost Souls is actually still pretty fresh in my mind; I paid extra, extra special attention while reading it because I was on the lookout for any references whatsoever to The Infernal Devices. Plus, Ally and I jointly reviewed that one, so I figured I'd brush up on what happened in Books 1-4 only and review them. I might do an update or two on the progress of the reread, time permitting. Ally and I are planning to do some kind of post to mark the end of TMI; we do love speculating on how a series will wrap up.

4 comments:

  1. It has been such a LONG wait. I'm so ready for the next book even while I'm sad to see it go. I have to know how this series wraps up. I feel the same way about all the books that I read before blogging with no reviews set up. Have fun with the re-read! Jaclyn @ JC's Book Haven.

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    1. The last book is 700+ pages, and I'm excited to read every single one! As I was writing this post, I realized that it's been two years since City of Lost Souls already; the time has flown!

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  2. I'm excited for the last one too, I heard Tessa is going to make a special appearance and though I'm sad to say goodbye to the characters, I'm anxious to bid farewell to emoClary and Jace. Sorry babe, not a fan of those two.

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    1. I think what I'm most looking forward to in this book is seeing how many characters from The Infernal Devices make appearances, lol. I've never been a Clary fan; I liked Jace a lot in the first three books but not so much in the fourth. He got it together a little bit in the most recent one, but he really needs a strong finish in this one to win me back.

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