The Fate of Clary and Jace: A Journey Through Love and Demon Hunting

Clary and Jace's relationship has been a central theme throughout the series, and their reunion in the latest installment is both heartwarming and tumultuous. Clary, determined to make amends with Jace, tracks him down to his hospital bed where he's recovering from his injuries sustained during their last encounter. She apologizes for stabbing him, but her words are met with a mix of confusion and gratitude. Jace explains that his body is still healing from the injuries he sustained when Clary stabbed him, and that people who touch him may still get burned.

Despite this challenge, Clary's feelings for Jace are undeniable, and she leans in to kiss him. However, Jace quickly pulls away, cautioning them to be careful as they navigate their newfound feelings. The tension between them is palpable, but it's clear that they both care deeply for each other. As they make out, Clary feels a spark of electricity pass between them, a sense of connection that's hard to ignore.

Meanwhile, Isabelle provides some sage advice to Clary on how to navigate her feelings for Simon. Isabelle reminds Clary that she needs to be honest with Simon about her intentions and not hold back in expressing her feelings. After all, if she wants him to reciprocate those feelings, she needs to be upfront and real. Clary takes Isabelle's advice to heart, knowing that it's time to be clear about her feelings.

In a surprising turn of events, Jace reveals his own feelings for Clary in a passionate declaration of love. He explains that he fell in love with her because of her bravery and strength, and that he couldn't imagine living without her by his side. Clary is touched by his words, but she's also aware of the challenges they face together.

The reunion between Clary and Jace is just one part of a larger story unfolding in the world of demon hunting. In the midst of their emotions, the group receives some disturbing news: Sebastian has escaped, and he's still on the loose. The Shadowhunters know that this means more danger lies ahead, but they're determined to face it head-on.

As Clary and Jace begin to rebuild their relationship, they also receive an unexpected visit from someone familiar. Maurice Lightwood, Jace's father, has some news of his own: he's been working with Brother Zachariah to uncover the truth behind Jace's newfound powers. It turns out that Jace's body still holds a secret: a pair of angel wings, hidden beneath a rug in the library.

The discovery is both shocking and intriguing, leaving the group wondering what this means for their future and their quest to defeat evil. As they prepare to face whatever lies ahead, Clary and Jace know that their love will be tested in ways they never thought possible.

Travel and Other Exciting Developments

As we wait with bated breath for the next installment, it's clear that there are many more twists and turns in store for our beloved Shadowhunters. While there's no official release date announced, fans can rest assured that the journey will continue soon enough.

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Take some time to learn something new, explore your interests, or simply recharge before diving back into the world of Shadowhunters. Whether you're a seasoned fan or just starting out, there's always something to discover in this vast and magical universe.

Until next time, stay strong, dear readers!

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your mind things that were stolen from us when the movie series didn't continue okay Simon's having a rough time of it because recently he's been maybe sort of kind of dating Isabelle Isabelle Lightwood as we remember Shadow Hunter hottie only dates bad boys that she can't have originally hated Simon because he was like nerd annoying boy oh how things change he's kind of sort of dating Isabelle which isn't his biggest problem it's one of them but his biggest problem is that he's not just dating Isabelle he's kind of maybe sort of also dating Maya Maya the wherewolf Maya who's just like a chill girl throughout the series let it be known Maya cool girl okay they have always kind of had a connection when they met because they kind of both feel like Outsiders they neither of them wanted to be what they are was changed by force and he was turned into a rat and then changed into a vampire they really connected on that level Isabelle's hot that's how that works they just sort of naturally fell into dating and Simon just didn't know how to tell either of them like I'm kind of also doing this with another girl to be fair he's terrified of Isabelle and he genuinely likes Maya as a friend so he doesn't want to screw up that relationship he has as well so he asks Clary one day like hey what do I do I'm dating two girls and Clary is just like the Simon how dare you figure it out she's like I can't tell you what to do she's also scared of Isabelle but clary's like I have my own to worry about figure it out I don't want to see you dead okay cuz these girls can definitely kill Simon so that's where we're at and before you guys are like why can't they just all be together um continue with Cassandra cla's work you will see that she dives into polyamory spoiler not in this series okay but the issue is finally coming to a head because clary's Mom Joselyn is finally getting married to Luke they are having a wedding Simon needs a date to said wedding they're both invited mess okay so we need to figure this out fast but Simon is sort of like at the very least at least we haven't like become official with either of them right we're just casually dating no feelings right it's going to be fine as he's sitting there drinking coffee these two weird looking guys approach him and they're like hey we're from the NYC clan of vampires and we need to talk to you why don't you come with us that's when Isabelle pops up and she's like yeah you can get back now you can go away because they're clearly like intimidating poor little Simon the creepy vampire guys are like oh what are you his bodyguard and Isabelle says no I'm not his bodyguard I'm his girlfriend o so apparently she thinks it's more official than Simon did and to be fair Simon thinks that a girl like her would never date him so he was like oh for sure Isabelle doesn't think this is serious he's Simon is watching this unfold and he's just like how did I get here like flashback to a couple of months ago he would never have thought like he's more shocked by the fact that a very hot girl is his girlfriend than the fact that these like vampire thugs are threatening him in a coffee shop like how did this become my reality but to make a long story short he agrees to go with the scary vampire people because he's like listen I want to talk to Raphael anyway let's just like nip this in the bud I will come with you okay cuz remember he is a daylighter so because he drank Jace's blood and Jace was this kind of experiment that included Angel blood you remember this when Simon was in trouble Jace let him drink from him and so now he is a vampire that also has Angel blood in him so he can walk around in the day which is crazy and the vampires want him like it's unclear what they want him for but like he's an important Vamp okay so he's like fine let's go talk to Raphael but once he gets to the meeting place it is not Raphael that is there who is it Camille C is the original head of the New York City vampires but she's been away and so Raphael has taken her place and she tells him that Raphael while she's been away has actually been framing her for all of these murders because there's been a lot of like humans getting killed by vampires I guess and so Camille is like yeah he's been framing me so that he can oust me and all of this stuff I need your help we need to fix this and why is she coming to Simon for help you might be asking because not only is he the daylighter but he also has the mark of can on him so remember Clary came up with a rune that is basically The Mark of Cain which means that anything that happens to Simon gets bounced back to that person Sevenfold So if someone were to flick him on the forehead they would get seven flicks on the forehead nobody wants to hurt Simon nobody can touch him he's an Untouchable little angel vampire he's the most interesting character I think I know why anyway Simon my love so Camille is like listen help me overthrow Raphael you're the only person that Raphael is lowkey scared of you will be welcomed with open arms into the vampire Community Happy Days and Simon is sort of like I'm not really interested in being a part of the vampire Community to be fair like you guys changed me against my will made me into a rat which was a really horrible time for me I've got my own friends right we don't really need to be anything more than colleagues okay Camille Camille Just Smiles and says you think that now but remember you are Immortal and in 80 years when all of your friends are dead you're going to wish that you had some people around you that understood you so you have 5 days to give me your answer now we are heading to the training room at the shadow Hunter Institute where Clary is jumping from the banisters doing cool shadow Hunter okay she is fully leaning in to this badass Warrior aesthetic when none other than Jace walks in Jace in case you need an update on our Golden Boy his hair has now darkened now that it's no longer summer to this like Rich gold Clary is quote absurdly happy that she's known him long enough to notice small changes in his appearance and I'm also assuming she is happy that he is not her brother and this is where we learned something really important Clary and Jace have not told anyone what happened at Lake Lynn so basically the end of our previous book where jaay died full stop jaay dead but Clary talked to the angel and she kind of had like one wish you know and she used that to bring Jace back to life no one knows that Jace died everyone knows that like okay yay where'd he go they like stopped Valentine's evil plan but none of the I would say key details of what went down before we can get any romance finally now that the brother thing is done Isabelle busts in the room and is like we just found a horribly disfigured and dead Shadow Hunter and a dumpster in Brooklyn never any peace in this world Clary runs off to change into her normal clothes because there's going to be a meeting now because of the Dead Shadow Hunter and she needs to get home so she's gone for a second comes back Jace and Isabelle are talking about the date that Isabelle just went on with Simon and this is where we get another look into just how wonderful the world would have been if this was a Simon in Jace romance where Jace is like wow he took you to an actual restaurant I would have thought his idea of a date was making you watch him play World of Warcraft with his little nerd friends and Clary is just like I am in fact one of his nerd friends FYI Isabelle kind of turns and looks at Clary and she just turns back to Jason is like yeah well you know it's nothing serious like we're just playing around she's now telling the gang like I don't care this is just frivolous stuff okay to which Clary is like oh so like you guys aren't exclusive like this isn't a thing and Isabelle says no so keep that in mind okay cuz remember Clary knows about Maya and she was expecting Simon today to tell her about this whole thing and so now Isabelle is like it's fine nothing serious we are exclusive okay you see how this is already messy anyway Clary has to get home because it's late and her mom has made a very clear rule that there are no sleepovers anywhere near where her boyfriend lives okay so Clary has to always be home to sleep boyfriend it was still a shock hearing the word for so long it had seemed a total impossibility that Jace would ever be her boyfriend that they could ever be anything to each other at all but brother and sister that had been too hard and horrible to face all right so they have like a 10-second makeout session in The Institute elevator as Jace brings her to the front door and then Jay gets all weird and like trembly he's very shaky during this book and so he's very much like ooh um I love you he says more than ever God more than I probably should you know that don't you and then before she can say anything to that confession he closes the door and disappears so never fear our emo King God I love you more than I should G he lives on in case you're wondering about our other couple who I haven't mentioned yet Alec and Magnus are off traveling the world and the only contact we have with Alec is that he sends Jace postcards from everywhere they go saying basically like wish you were here but not really fast forward to a couple of hours later and Joselyn and Luke are so busy with wedding planning that they don't notice Clary sneaks out and returns to the Institute this girl goes back and forth between Brooklyn and Manhattan so damn much she's back at The Institute she walks into Jace's room he's sprawled on the bed covered in Moonlight and letters written by his birth father okay he's questioning his existence where else would he be basically Clary was not happy leaving that kiss in the elevator and that sudden love conf confession where it was so she walked into the room and he kind of clears off space in the bed he puts the letters back in this box that he has and then out of the box he grabs a dagger and when Clary sits down on the bed he raises it high and brings it down Jace jerks awake emo King still having nightmares constantly okay every single time he closes his eyes he's killing Clary apparently the first few times he had these nightmares where he killed Clary he woke up and Ved vomited because yeah scary so now he like doesn't eat especially not like hours before going to sleep because he's like well I'm just going to throw it up anyway like he knows what's happening so now he just has spasms of sickness and fever he curls up into a ball gasping and dry heaving until it passes so our boy Jace is having a rough time of it but this kind of just confirms a fear that he has always had which is that he is Valentine remember we found out that Valentine is not his birth father but Jace doesn't know his birth father and he was raised mostly by Valentine that's all of his memories of childhood so he just consistently in the back of his mind is like what if I am this like rotten scab that Valentine made and what if I could easily turn into an evil person and kill Clary he just like doesn't feel safe in his own head basically while Jace is dealing with this inner battle let's flash back to Simon who is also having a horrible time he is walking home where he inexp gets mugged and remember he has this Mark of The Wanderer Mark of Cain so everything that happens to him right he is about to get stabbed right before the knife hit him the mugger was thrown back by an incredible force and cut up and killed by his own knife yikes Simon obviously freaked out by this covered in blood runs home his mom is at the door like whoa Simon you are covered in blood talk to me because Simon has been incredibly distant he stays up in his room he doesn't have to eat anymore so remember he's had to like throw his dinner out his window and like that's been months so I mean the food trash outside of his window is probably horrific right but regardless of how much he's hidden he somehow forgot to hide the blood packets in his mini fridge because his mom found them and she's like you need to talk to me right now like what are you doing with blood in your mini fridge so he's like well I was going to have to do this eventually eventually and he comes clean he's like Mom I'm a vampire to which she obviously doesn't believe him it's much easier for her to believe that he is just in some crazy cult or that he has been possessed by the devil but whatever is going on with him he is no longer her son she starts freaking out and the only thing Simon can think of doing at that moment is using his vampire powers to basically brainwash her into thinking that this whole conversation was a very bad dream and so he leaves his mom kind of with her memory scrambled and walks back out of the house the next day we are in Central Park with Clary and Jace they're having a cute little picnic Jace is like you know what why don't I train you in my tie and so they're about to start doing some martial arts training when who pops up but the cely queen never a dull day in Central Park cuz remember this is like the gateway to Fay territory so the cely Queen the last time we saw her she was asking Clary to pull a few strings put in a good word for mellor to get on the council that the shadow Hunters were making with the down worlders and Clary was like h no I've got everything I could ever want I don't need a favor from you so now it's been a few weeks and it turns out melor got on the council anyway without clary's help so she's kind of like you know no hard feelings right like we all got what we wanted happy day and the cely queen is like whatever uh just came here to say that I found another dead Shadow Hunter on our turf and thought you should know also I have a riddle for you in case this book wasn't already a mess she looks at Clary and says I can see why you love him but did you ever wonder what draws him to you she says the blood of Heaven binds you and blood calls to blood under the skin but blood and love are not the same he is bound to you but does he love you okay so riddle doesn't even rhyme lost points for that one the Cel Queen basically just continues to say in a bunch of different ways like are you sure that he likes you as much as you like him and if he does like you then why and after a few minutes of just being rude she disappears back in Brooklyn Simon is curled up in the garage of one of his bandmates like where they go to practice for this Infamous band that never has the same band name they change it daily he's curled up in the practice room when a guy named Kyle walks in so just recently they had had band practice when this guy named Kyle walks in and he's basically like hey I saw a bunch of Flyers around town that you're looking for a singer can I join he sings a few bars they're like actually sure Clary is at practice and clary's like Kyle's hot so if you guys had a hot lead singer maybe you would actually have some success so they let him join but when he was doing his audition he accidentally left his keys in the practice room so he walks in and sees Simon sleeping on the concrete floor and he's basically just like hey man I know you don't know me and we're going to be band mates but we haven't bonded yet but like I have an apartment and I have an extra room and I would really not sleep well knowing that you are sleeping on a concrete floor like you down and Simon kind of looks at him and notices that Kyle has a bunch of tattoos this is such a great detail he's covered in tattoos and the tattoos all say peace in different languages and so Simon is like he's got to be a good guy it let's go hey roomie and follows Kyle to his apartment and it actually turns out that Kyle is a normal nice dude so far um neither of them are actually super tired so they end up just kind of hanging out at his apartment he gets a call from Maya and Kyle is like so is Maya your girlfriend and Simon's like that's a whole thing and Kyle's like uh okay cuz I thought that redheaded chick was your girlfriend and Simon's like no no no no no clary's just a friend and she has a boyfriend and Simon Says quote she has like the nuclear bomb of boyfriend Simon kind of explains the situation that he's in and this is the first time that we see the kind of golden retriever energy that Kyle is bringing sputter out he's sort of like he gets real serious and he's like Simon you need to tell these girls what's going on you need to figure this out and you need need to treat these women with respect I'm disappointed in you other things that we learn about Kyle other than that he respects women is that uh he is a bike Courier that is his job and he has a strange necklace with a wolfpaw on it and something written in Latin and Simon is just like oh he must be Catholic Simon this is where we get a bunch of little scenes that are kind of stupid number one we have Clary going to try on bridesmaid dresses with her mom Jace randomly walks in and sees her in a bridesmaid dress and is like you're so beautiful it's really intense which Joselyn hates by the way she does not like how in love they are she's like this is not not healthy and then he kind of immediately just like shutters and walks away like why was he there even like how did you find Clary what's going on Luke is kind of like don't worry Clary that was super weird weird but like weddings make guys nervous or something but this is where we know that Clary knows that jce is acting really weird around her like he'll get super intense and then it'll just be like cold and other people are noticing too where did Jace Moody run away to he swoops in and saves the day because Simon is mugged again again and this is where I mean it's not a random mugging okay clearly someone is targeting him Jace is able to to snatch him away before any harm befalls him and the muggers because they will be hurt too they run off to Kyle's apartment this poor man has no idea what he has let into his home a bit later we're back at The Institute and Clary is there to talk to Jace to basically be like boy you are acting so dumb let's talk like tell me what's going on why are you doing this but instead of finding Jace she finds Luke is also there and he is there to talk to Maurice which remember this is Isabelle and Alex mom she is head of the New York City Institute Robert the father is still in Idris the shadow Hunter country it's not a huge deal in the book right now but it seems like their relationship is really on the Rocks because they just lost their son remember rest in peace Max Lightwood and so they're dealing with it by being separated right now so Maurice is the only one at the Institute remember how we heard from Isabelle the cely queen about all of these deaths of Shadow Hunters apparently another one occurred it seems like all of the deaths are taking place in different areas so like one Shadow Hunter is killed in Shadow Hunter Brooklyn one is killed in the Fay territory one is left in the wolf territory and they all seem to be former Circle members the working Theory right now is that people are really angry with the Accords that are being written so remember we're trying to make new laws kind of making the separation between Shadow hunters and downworlders is a little bit less severe and people don't like that so it seems like people are killing people I don't it's unclear okay and Clary is listening at the door hearing all of this when she overhears Maurice be like man you it just be so much easier if the dead could talk like we could ask these dead Shadow Hunters who killed them and clar is suddenly like what if the dead could talk so remember Clary has this funky little power where she can create runes that have previously not existed before she can't just think of what she wants and then make it like they have to just kind of come to her and so when Maurice says that all of a sudden Clary is like I know how to wake someone up from the dead like oh my God and so she busts into the room and is like guys you are not going to believe this Maurice is not known for like being able to distinguish a good and bad idea so she's like Clary yes they head off to silent s where they are going to check out these dead bodies this is where we meet brother Zachariah not to be confused with brother Jeremiah rest in peace he lets them into the room where the dead Shadow Hunters are Clary draws her little Rune and for a long moment nothing happened and then with a terrible Sadness the dead Shadow Hunter's eyes flicked open a rattling breath came from the dead man the sound of some someone trying to breathe through a Cut Throat all the shadow Hunter is able to squeak out is Camille so but Clary made a real big misjudgment here because she successfully woke up the shadow Hunter but that also woke him up to the pain of his like injuries that caused him death so he's laying there awake throat slit open screaming in pain and all he can say is Camille because he is dying again so good job spoiler Clary is not the MVP of this book okay back with my boys Simon and Jace they are remember in Kyle's apartment this is the first time they've kind of seen each other in a while I guess and Simon kind of looks at Jason is like man you are not looking good like he looks pale and sweaty and clearly hasn't been sleeping in weeks and jaay is sort of like I just saved your life this is a very weird time to start an insult competition but like if you must know you have the sex appeal of a pain uin that's a lie not true Simon is like even though I don't need to eat I can see when other people are not getting their nutrients so Simon drags Jace to the grocery store to like feed him good things which is so sweet and then when they come back to the apartment Kyle is there Simon is about to be like Kyle meet Jay Jay meet Kyle when Jace just kind of smirks and he's like oh Simon didn't tell me that his roommate was a werewolf who could have seen that coming who this boy with a necklace with a wolf paw on it I'm blindsided anyway during the introductions Kyle makes the mistake of calling Clary cute cuz he's like oh you're a shadow Hunter like that cute redhe head he barely survived Jace like lunges but luckily Simon is there to be like w don't tread there nuclear bomb of a boyfriend remember what I said but anyway the reason that we didn't know about Kyle being a werewolf is because he's not part of Luke's pack he is part of something called the pror lupus which is basically like the guardian pack they are kind of werewolf police officers and they basically help any like newly made downworlder so like a new werewolf or a new vampire they watch over them and like make sure they don't up okay while they are getting used to their powers and so Kyle was assigned to Simon it's kind of like the Big Brother program okay Kyle's looking out for a little baby vampire Simon Jace is immediately like well good news for you you can leave because Simon is my Downer I protect him he actually says he's my downworlder to Mock and boss around not yours but they end up kind of bonding over this shared protection of Simon because they both want to know who's trying to kill him so they end up leaving on good terms and Kyle's like well it was nice meeting you you're the first Shadow Hunter I've really ever talked to and Jay says that's too bad since all the ones you'll meet from now on will be a terrible let down let's go back to Clary so there is actually a scene that I didn't mention but they were watching like Shadow Hunter TV news I don't know how better to describe this but essentially her and Joselyn saw that this nearby hospital where Joselyn was being treated remember when she was in her coma there was news from this hospital that somebody abandoned a magical baby there and there was a strange note asking the hospital to please euthanize my baby because it's evil so Joselyn was really upset by this news story so she actually calls the hospital for personal updates it turns out that the baby has already died of mysterious circumstances Joselyn is sort of like I think I know what's going on can I come down and like check this out and the nurse is basically like yeah come on down it's a very strange situation but basically Joselyn starts heading off to the hospital and Clary is like Mom I'm not like letting you go alone like this is very reminiscent of her experience with Sebastian remember that her mom felt like a horrible mother because as she was pregnant and then as she gave birth she hated this child she was scared of Sebastian quick refresher Sebastian clary's brother was a product of Valentine's experiments and he mostly has demon blood in him he's evil to the core and Jocelyn could feel that so she's sort of like damn somebody just like abandoned their their evil baby and asked people to kill him sounds like me man been there so off they head together to the hospital to check this out and sure enough when they get to the hospital and they look at this baby it seems very clear that it has been somehow touched by demon magic um it's unclear whether this child is a half demon or what but there is definitely demon stuff going on with the baby and in this book we get large swaths of time where Jace Kyle and Simon are together playing video games and hanging out making plans to save the world which is not a good idea because three teenage boys with weird Supernatural powers and not fully formed brains getting together and figuring out how to save the world we already know where this is going so their big plan for finding out who is trying to kill Simon is to set up a trap and use Simon as bait what could possibly go wrong this trap is going to occur at Simon 's next band's gig at this little shindig in Brooklyn whatever they're going to have Simon get up on stage and then Jace is going to lurk around and hopefully capture whoever is trying to kill his little down worlder we immediately jump to the gig Simon is getting up on stage Jace is like break a leg hopefully I'll be down in the audience breaking someone else's in case we need more drama Clary shows up to the gig un announced she's a good friend so like why did we not expect her to show up at the gig but she's here so rutro Jace didn't know that she was going to be here and so when she starts walking through the crowd towards him the surprise shows on his face and Clary is basically like are you ever going to talk to me again like this is getting ridiculous you are just scurrying away whenever I see you it's really weird and Jay says I can't talk to you I can't be with you I can't even look at you and before he can be like uh I mean that's not really what I meant understandably runs away he's literally like I can't even look at you he means because it's painful for him because of the nightmares but he's like really didn't start that story off well but by the time he tries to explain himself Clary is gone on stage Simon is struggling with an intense burst of hunger for blood he has been trying the Cullen diet where he has only been drinking animal blood and that's just not cutting it apparently normally he his hunger is under control but just suddenly it's like an uncontrollable rush so he Jets off stage to try and like not look at this crowd of humans around him and he runs into Moren Moren is the cousin of one of his bandmates or like a friend of a cousin of one of his bandmates like basically just this young pre-teen who thinks that like boys and shitty bands are cool so she's like very excited to be backstage and like watch it she is in the worst place at the worst time and Simon has no control and just sinks his teeth into morine quote Simon didn't even notice when she went limp her dead weight dragging him to the floor his hands gripping her shoulder clenching and unclenching as he drank we cut to a scene of Jace running after Clary into a back alley it's pouring rain it's dark it's Brooklyn and he explains that like he can't talk to her because he just loves her too much and so they have this hot and heavy make out session in this groy rainy alley behind a Brooklyn concert venue when Isabelle once again interrupts them she knocks over trash can she's like did not mean to walk in on that yuck um but I'm looking for Simon because he just ran off stage and disappeared I thought he was back here remember that Jace this whole thing is to protect Simon because people are trying to kill Simon Kyle is the first one to find Simon and luckily Simon has left morine still alive but Kyle is basically like you need to get the out of here I will take care of this leave Simon is feeling horrified by what he did understandably he's looking at Morin like holy but he also feels really wonderful because he just drank human blood and he's been like slowly dying literally for months drinking his ant animal blood right he feels more alive than he has felt in a long time and that sucks because life is about to hit him in the face Isabelle runs in she's like oh my God Simon I was so worried about you and grabs him into this huge hug who follows her Maya walks in oh it's juicy Maya's like oh I know you said you were busy but I saw the flyer to this show and I thought I would come and support you what's going on what are you doing girl hugging my boyfriend they put it together real quick like exact same time the girls very rationally I think tell Simon that what he did is really really shitty and Simon is like I know I know but I just didn't want to hurt either of you so I thought it better to just not tell you and the second he says it out loud he's just like I am an they're remarkably chill and they're basically like yeah you let's talk about this later when like there's not a almost dead young girl on the floor um but not chill man not chill Kyle walks back into the scene after he had like taken Moren somewhere safe and all the blood drains from Maya's face Kyle was staring at Maya with the look of someone who had woken up from a nightmare only to discover that it is real and continuing his mouth moved shaping words but no sound came out Maya whispered Jordan and lunged for Kyle claws out and sharp and sank them into his throat Simon is back at the apartment with Kyle luckily Isabelle jumped in at the last second to stop Maya from killing him most everyone who was there seems very confused by what happened but not Simon Simon knows who this man is go way back to when Maya told us the story of how she became a werewolf she had a boyfriend that things got kind of weird ended funny the next time she sees him he attacks her changes her into a werewolf and then just like leaves her for dead that is this man Jordan not Kyle how lucky he is to have a last name that's also a first name but yeah this is now Jordan okay and when Simon is like hey like I know what you did to Maya he doesn't even try to hide it he's like oh yeah I know Maya had every right to kill me just then she was 100% in the right you know and Jordan is like can I ask you why you even came back with me why did you even ask for my side of the story and Simon is like honestly yesterday I wouldn't have because I know what you did to Maya but I just almost killed a little girl and I would like to think that I'm not a monster he's like listen from the day that I met you you've been a good guy you've never even gotten angry except for when I was hurting Maya so I'm wondering if there's a chance that I'm not evil too what what if we aren't all our worst deed this is when we learn that the reason Jordan is even in the prer lupus the wolf Guardian crew is he felt like that's his way to atone for what he did to Maya it gave him a reason to keep on living and he felt like he was doing some kind of good in the world and so now all three of our boys believe that they are monsters and are searching for ways to atone for that and when we get Jordan's side of the story it turns out that he was actually recently changed into a werewolf too and sort of like Simon's sudden blood lust werewolves have trouble controlling themselves that's why the Prader lupus exists is to help these young downworlders and the time that he saw Maya he ran into her unexpectedly at a party that was the first night that he ever changed as a werewolf and he had no idea what was happening after he attacked Maya he ran off because he was not in his right mind and the next day when he came to talked to her he was stopped by two guardians from the Prader lupus and they were basically like you bit a human you either go to jail for the rest of your life or you join us and serve time as a guardian and they're also like don't worry about Maya she's got her own Guardian assigned to her like forget about her you're never going to see her again basically and it turns out that Jordan actually picked Simon as a person to guard because he saw Maya mentioned in his notes and he was like I just I just need to know if she's okay like I just wanted to be close to her with this chance that I could apologize and well he met her we saw how that went cut to Clary we're still in this weird demon baby Arc of the story okay Jocelyn and Clary are back from the hospital Clary managed to grab a little piece of the baby blanket that wrapped this demon baby as she's kind of playing with the fabric she realizes that there is a rune not one of her special magical runes but one that already exists where you can essentially draw it on the fabric or the object and it will tell you the last location that it was at or like where the magic came from it's a locating charm okay she uses it and what comes to her is an address for Church of talto it is at uh 232 Riverside Drive Clary does not tell her mom because her mom is traumatized by demon baby stuff okay Luke is busy doing something we don't know so she sends out a text message of the address and is like please come as soon as you can whoever she texts is like okay she grabs a few weapons and jets off into the night the plot's about to get crazy so I apologize that we're going to be bouncing back and forth but this is how Cassie intended the story to be told so I will honor it back with Simon Simon and Jordan are like mid conversation that we were just having no time has passed there was a note shoved under their front door in in child block letters on this piece of paper it says Simon Lewis we have your girlfriend you must come to 232 Riverside Drive today be there before dark or we will cut her throat question of the century though Simon's like which girlfriend so he calls both Isabelle and Maya both of them are like you so Simon is like they're going to lit my girlfriend's throat who is she so he makes one last call clary's phone rings as she turns the corner on 96th Street to Riverside Drive Simon is like hey girl have you been kidnapped and she's like M no and Simon's like okay cool he doesn't tell her what the note said I feel like if he had said yeah someone said that like they're kidnapping you and taking you to 232 Riverside Drive Clary might have been like huh that's a red flag maybe I should go into this weird abandoned church by myself but of course that doesn't happen so click into the church we go the church abandoned it's dark it's empty the only thing she hears is her footsteps when she sees a bunch of babies I'm not a real fan of babies anyway but these are demon babies she realizes that she has discovered this weird ass demon cult that is basically doing the exact same thing that Valentine was doing experiments on babies to see if they can make a demon version of a shadow Hunter oh no so she very quickly is like I should not be here by myself turns around starts walking to the door of the church when all of these people come out of the shadows and Surround her they are all wearing gray sweatsuits with their hoods up it feels like she has walked into a Kanye West music video she is a poorly trained brand new baby Shadow Hunter okay versus all of these creepy sweatsuit wearing people not good odds the odds get even worse when as she lurches for the door a demon pops out of nowhere and starts chasing her she manages to like jump over the altar she does like this backflip over the Altar and lands like Spider-Man and a part of her is like oh man wish Jace was here to see that that was pretty rad and then she's like Focus girl literal demon chasing you we got to go she manages to get a few stabs into the demon um she's fighting back but of course the demon can heal itself so she is just fighting a losing battle when out of nowhere a silver lasso appears goes around the demon Titans poof the demon is gone Isabelle is standing in the doorway and she's just like damn girl what have you gotten yourself into now I forgot to mention that Maurice and L Luke came up with a plan to approach Camille and that is using Simon because everybody knows that Simon is like the vampire right now so if you want to talk to Raphael if you want to talk to Camille you got to use him as bait okay so they have come up with this plan kind of without asking Simon but surpris like he hasn't had a rough time of it yet let's push him to his limit this poor boy Jace shows up at the apartment Simon is chilling because his friends aren't kidnapped all three of them they're fine they go off to the secret meeting honestly considering how long the action scenes typically are for Cassie Clare this is a pretty short scene basically Simon meets Camille Camille believes that he called this meeting with them because it's now the fifth day and she gave him five days to come up with an answer in terms of if he will help overthrow Raphael right so he shows up and he basically just needs to get her to ad ad MIT to something illegal having human servants or killing somebody anything and when she finally admits to some illegal activity a portal opens all these shadow Hunters bust in and they arrest her easy as that the twist in the scene though because of course this couldn't be easy The Twist is she agrees to be taken to the shadow Hunter dungeon whatever but the only person she's going to talk to if you want any information out of me the only person I'm going to talk to is Magnus Bane and thank God because we've been missing Magnus okay he's coming back to talk to Camille one thing that we get out of this scene that is very important is that while they were planning this while they were arresting Camille Marice mother of the year is saying really horrible things about downworlders even though the shadow Hunters are allegedly working on a peace treaty and like yeah we're all equal well um Maurice does not believe that okay she says a lot of about how vampires are evil and that just kind of keeps replaying in Simon's head especially because remember what Camille said that he's Immortal and that in 80 or something years he's going to be all alone and even if he thinks that he's friends with the shadow Hunters he's not like them he'll never fully be accepted he's all alone okay and Maurice just kind of really set those negative thoughts Ablaze in Simon's head Simon and Jace are still hanging out in the Institute after they brought Camille back to the dungeon and Isabelle walks in and is like oh man just got back from saving Clary from a Hydra demon and Jace is like a what Isabelle was like chill out man she's in the infirmary she's okay and before she can even finish that sentence Jace is out Jes is running to see his girl which of course leaves Simon and Isabelle alone Simon quaking in his boots and Isabelle just basically looks at Jace's quickly disappearing figure and is like man they need to get their together and turns to Simon and is like we need to get our together I will not be like those two clowns we need to communicate we need to be the one healthy relationship in this book Simon tells her his side of the story which we know now it's time to hear Isabelle's she basically explains to us that she does not understand how Jace and Alec can fall so head over heels in love and also like she doesn't trust people she lets us know that she grew up knowing that her dad cheated on her mom and they almost broke up basically Maurice was the one who really wanted to join the circle which tracks because she's a hateful person and Robert just kind of went along with it so then when everything exploded Robert blamed Maurice right for dragging him into this horrible situation but at that point they already had Alex so they were like we're going to stay together for the kids let's make this work after they had Isabelle her dad started a relationship with another woman Maurice sits Isabelle down as a kid okay again mother of the year Maurice is like okay just so you know Daddy is planning on leaving the family to go be with this other woman and Maurice literally was like just so you know girly you can't trust men but then Maurice finds out she's pregnant with Max and he stays so Alec never knew this like Isabelle just grew up holding this guilt and this like lack of trust and this just instability in her life all by herself and she's 13 obviously that affects her relationships okay and she's never told anyone this except for Simon just now and Simon is like honestly I can see it in the way that you date like you always date people who could never be serious about you back you know Simon is like I genuinely cared about you I will always care about you I want you to know that like this didn't happen because I didn't take you seriously I'm just kind of a up and basically they talk it out they leave as friends okay they've come to an understanding now let's go visit the couple that doesn't communicate Clary and Jace were in the hospital infirmary the second Clary like opens her eyes Jace goes in for a kiss and Clary is like okay can we like not substitute talking with kissing like we only kiss I need to hear you speak words all right go he starts off strong blaming her um he's kind of pissed that she texted Isabelle for backup instead of him and Clary is like honestly I didn't know if I could count on you to show up you are so hot and cold you show up at weird times and just disappear or you shut me out I don't trust you to have my back anymore Isabelle is a girl's girl honestly Isabelle is kind of the MVP of this book spoiler I texted her and here I am safe and sound she's basically like tell me what's going on or get the out of this room he admits that he needs some help and that you know the war everything that happened in Idris Max Etc is weighing quite heavily on him so he promises that he will get help and try to get better and Clary decides that's enough and so they can go back to kissing now okay we get two and a half pages of kissing when all of a sudden there's a flash of silver in the darkness something cold and sharp cuts across clar's arm this is when Jace launches himself across the bed away from her Clary looks from her bleeding arm to Jace to the knife in his hand back downstairs with Camille Simon is there and Magnus and Alec have arrived remember she only wanted to talk to Magnus Once Upon a Time and this was a very long time ago because remember Magnus is Immortal okay about 130 years ago they were an item yes Magnus dated Camille and Alec I just don't know how he didn't think of this but like he's dating a man who is hundreds of years old and he like didn't consider the fact that Magnus had other relationships and Alec just kind of loses his and he's like I got to go I can't be here this is really weird I'm going to go find Isabelle and he leaves okay Simon also leaves he's like this is awkward but as he's leaving he's like I'm Immortal too he's really like understanding that like holy I'm going to watch all my friends die and the only people I'm going to be able to relate to are other Immortal people who I don't really gel with this is a shitty shitty book for Simon he's having a bad time the only thing that we learned from Camille is that yes she was behind the shadow Hunter deaths that we've been talking about in this book however she was ordered by a higher power to do it and she's like not going to lie I enjoyed it hate Shadow Hunters especially the shitty ones that were in the circle but I was doing it under orders okay and she tells Magnus this under the oath that he will fight for her immunity so that she doesn't get killed because that's definitely what the shadow Hunters would do to her so she waits in the dungeon but Simon isn't the only one having a shitty time let's go back to Jace with the knife in his hand okay he comes clean to Clary he's still way on the other side of the bed okay but he's like listen here's what's been going on tells her all about the nightmares and that's why he hasn't been around her he's like that's why I can't look at you that's why I can't talk to you because every time I do I'm reminded that every single time I close my eyes I kill you and apparently just now in my awake times I also stab you so what the and Jace again like the reason he didn't really come forward about this is because he thinks this is just natural like he's just got too much evil in him because of Valentine so he's like it is what it is like this is this is who I am Clary okay and Clary is like no Jace I know you this isn't you like you wouldn't be stabbing me for funsies okay because go back to the very first book when Clary was having these weird dreams and visions of the Shadow Hunter world that was like weird remnants of a curse that Magnus put on her to forget her Shadow Hunter memories right dreams are often ways of communicating and could be like spells gone wrong she's like maybe they aren't real nightmares maybe someone is trying to communicate with you this is the first time Clary has seen anything close to Hope on Jace's face in a very long time so they had to silent City because they're like who's going to know about weird dream the silent Brothers the brothers get to work apparently they don't have any going on so they immediately are like Jace sit down let's comb through your beautiful little brain they get right to it and when they start looking at him they notice immediately he has the mark of the angel on him and they kind of look at the two of them and are like how'd that happen talk to any Angels recently Clary so that Secrets out the brothers know that Jace has been killed and brought back to life with the use of an Angel okay brother Zachariah genius okay he immediately knows what's going on he's like listen technically he died and was reborn and so when Shadow Hunters are babies they go through a ritual that marks them with these protective runes to Shield them from any demonic energies but because he was reborn he like needs to do that again right those protective runes are likely gone from him so he's just been walking around Fresh open to disease demons can just come and go as they like into his psyche bad news okay but easy fix we just need to do that ritual the only problem is the ritual requires both the silent brothers and the iron sisters and the sisters kind of hard to get a hold of it's going to take one to two business days best that Jace just stays in silence City and he can come out once he's reborn and blessed and all that Clary is really concerned about this but jce is like no girl this is great news it was just a demon it wasn't me go be free have fun see you in a couple of days thanks so much for believing in me love you he also says if I'm able to not be afraid of being near you anymore I would spend a Thousand Nights in silent City so later girly now that Jason's problem is solved let's pop back to Simon who is in the middle of his tragedy Arc it just gets worse from here Simon back with Jordan Kyle in the apartment he hasn't moved out okay he's like listen we're both up let's hang Simon walks in Jordan is like bad news buddy and slides the newspaper over to Simon it says girl found dead police are pursuing leads in the death of 14-year-old Moren Brown whose body was discovered Sunday night and though no official cause of death has been released the deli owner who found the body says her throat was cut open and Jordan is like yeah didn't um didn't that note tell you that they were going to cut your girlfriend's throat I mean like what are what are the odds you know what are the odds flashback to the show where Moren got bitten okay they were using Simon as a trap so chances are the people who were targeting Simon saw that whole thing go down and maybe misinterpreted it a little bit and kidnapped Moren thinking that she was someone special to Simon Simon curled in on himself wrapping his arms around his chest as if he could make himself small enough to vanish completely Meanwhile we're back in silent City with Jace and Jace goes for a little sleepy sleep and surprise he has a nightmare but it's not the killing Clary nightmare that he's used to he is back in Idris and Max is there rest in peace Max we love Max okay and Max has a message for him Max is basically like hey jce I'm here to help you clary's right the dreams are a message they aren't trying to hurt you they're trying to tell you that you are in fact hurting Clary you still have evil inside of you and you can't be with her until you cut it out of you so he hands him a knife and tells Jace to stab himself and that will do the job Jace decides like okay I'll humor you and he cuts himself with the dream dagger right we're still in this nightmare just to see what happens and a little bit of his blood falls from the cut and immediately Max Dives for the blood and goes a little crazy like his eyes are suddenly totally black there's no white in them Max takes the blood and draws a rune on Jace's chest one that jaay has never seen before and then says something rather chilling and I quote as you have dealt pain so shall you be dealt pain as you have caused grief so shall you feel grief you are mine now Jace Lightwood and then there was blinding Agony and Jay stumbles Into Darkness babe never a break never a break a bunch of quick scenes happen the where wolves are having a kind of pre-wedding party everybody's there except for Jace obviously because he's in a bad place and while Clary is mingling she gets approached by a fairy named Kaye and she's basically like hey the cely queen told me to give you this and it's a tiny little bell and Clary is like no girl I know how fairy gifts work if I accept this it means that I owe you a favor no thank you and Kaylee is like no I I swear to you no strings attached she just wants you to have this and when you realize that you do actually need her ring it and uh we'll help you out so Clary just kind of puts it in her pocket and is like okay that was weird Simon has a moment with Maya again chillest chill girl she's like listen I get it like I know your personality I know you weren't trying to hurt me but you ended up hurting me more than if we would just been honest with me you know she's like I get it really wish that didn't happen but like let's just be friends Simon is kind of like by the way maybe you should extend that Goodwill to Jordan and maybe hear him out and talk to him because you might be surprised by what I heard we also get multiple Magnus and Alec fight scenes because Alec is still not over the fact that Magnus had previous relationships he was not celibate for his like 500 years of life okay but one person who is not supposed to be at the Party Pop Quiz said it literally two seconds ago who shows up who let him out of Silent City brother Zachariah Clary obviously sees him because she's like a weird Jace magnet okay so he heads out to the balcony and she follows him and he as usual is acting really weird he starts asking her questions about like so you really love me right like how much do you love me are you sure you love me he asks her if she would still love him if he was like Sebastian like a demon he knows that he has Angel blood but like what if I had demon blood how would you feel about that then he's like wow this is a really nice wedding party let me segue into talking about Shadow Hunter weddings he brings up the fact that during Shadow Hunter weddings Shadow Hunters Mark each other instead of rings they put runes on each other that binds them together similar to the parabatai Rune okay and Jayce is like would you do that with me like would you have a little Rune like a little promise Rune with me he says I want to Mark you in a way that will bind us together Clary it's just a small Mark but it's permanent are you willing Madam Madam and this is where I remind you that couple tattoos in the midst of a tumultuous young teenage relationship usually not the move okay Clary is like wow that sounds like a horrible idea but also she's been worried for many many months months now that Jace doesn't understand how much she loves him she's like I can't get it through his thick skull that I genuinely love him so much so maybe this is what he needs like maybe he needs me to get a tattoo ma'am a small but permanent ma'am tattoo nuh-uh so she whips out her arm and um well at first it seems lovely he's drawing the Rune so gently but then her nerves tingle with sudden alarm she looks at the Rune and the pattern didn't speak of love and commitment to her because remember girly can read runes right she gets the the feeling okay these runes weren't about love and commitment there was something else there something darker something that spoke of control and submission of loss and darkness so at first clary's like oh Jace is drawing this Rune wrong this isn't right maybe he just has bad handwriting but no Jace knows what he's doing before she can stop him he turns and is like I'm really sorry Clary I do want to be bound to you I would never lie about that she opens her mouth to be like what the are you talking about but no words came the darkness rushed up too fast and the last thing she felt was Jace's arms around her as she fell flashing back to Magnus and Alec they're having a fight again about what else immortality and Alec is just like I don't understand why you can't just make me Immortal like I know how to solve our problem and Alex argument is like is this just a fling to you like because his concept of time is so different from magnus's he's like I'm just going to be a little blip on your map you know like oh remember back in the day when I dated that weird Shadow Hunter what was his name that's Alex's understanding of this conversation of this situation so he's like if you make me Immortal we can be together forever right like is unless you don't want to be together forever like tell me now Magnus starts to explain why he doesn't want Alec to suffer through experiencing immortality when Isabelle shows up always the best timing and Magnus is like oh Isabelle my beautiful lovely wonderful Isabelle can you please go away and Isabelle is like so you don't want me to tell you that Camille just escaped from the dungeon sanctuary and that my mom needs you to come right away and Magnus is like yes I do not want you to tell me that off they go speaking of vampires Simon steps outside for a breath of air after having you know finally tied up all of these girlfriend loose ends or so he thinks because who approaches him comes just walking down the street Moren who is supposed to be dead turns out whoever kidnapped her and cut her throat they were like you can either die or you can become a vampire and she was like yes I am a 14-year-old girl I would love to be a vampire she has been sent by the same people who keep attacking Simon because what they're trying to do is like get him to come to wherever they're trying to kidnap him too okay we haven't figured that out yet so they decide to send Moren last ditch effort let's get this girl to just like ask him to come which I feel like they could have started that way instead of coming at him with knives maybe just be like hey man could we talk he's a pretty reasonable dude but such is life so Moren is like are you coming or what buddy and Simon's reasoning is basically like yeah they already killed someone who they thought I was close to what's going to stop them from killing another one so why don't we just nip this in the bud lead the way Moren Moren leads Simon to a construction site of an apartment complex on the Upper East Side they take the rickety elevator up to the top floor uh when they get to the top floor waiting for Simon is this very old but beautiful woman who has claimed to have walked the paths of the Garden of Eden she claims that she knew Adam before Eve did she claims to have many names but we can call her Lilith how on Earth did I not put her on the board I'm just realizing that now oh my God hold on deepest apologies to Inquisitor imagin I am reusing your photo because it's the only one that I have on hand okay Lilith and uh why does she need to talk to Simon she needs Simon's life blood specifically Simon because he's the daylighter and so Simon's like oh that's weird you're a vampire 2 how strange and Lilith is like no I don't need your blood for me okay she needs it for what's underneath this black cloth and she just goes and reveals the biggest plot twist underneath the cloth is a coffin it's a glass coffin just long and wide enough for a person to lie down inside and inside the coffin is a cloudy liquid and floating in that liquid naked from the waist up his white blonde hair drifting around him like pale seaweed is Sebastian now one thing that I didn't mention to you is that Simon has actually met Lilith before at that gig where this was a whole trap and he ended up accidentally almost killing Moren remember this right before he went on stage a woman approached him and gave him her business card she claimed that she was a band promoter and that Simon should contact her so that she could promote his band and Simon is self-aware and he was like who the would want to promote our band so he just never gave her a call no offense to Simon's band but luckily for him he kept the business card when Isabelle and the Gang realized that Simon is missing from the party they head back to the apartment and just tear his room apart for any kind of clue because they know I mean like regardless of who it is everybody's after Simon Isabelle MVP happens to find the business card and the name on the business card is satrina which is one of the 17 names that Lilith uses Jordan is immediately like damn you memorized all 17 names and just to show off Alec starts listing them he's like yeah it doesn't everybody and he starts listing them and then he gets to a name that sounds even more familiar and it is talto rewind yeah Isabelle's like ooh damn I knew the name of that church sounded weird because remember where she and Clary ran into that Hydra demon and Isabelle saved clary's butt and there was that weird like demon baby making scheme going on that was the Church of talto aka the Church of Lilith aka the Church of the mother of all demons so yes Jordan it is helpful to memorize all 17 names of Lilith okay you never know when it's going to come in handy but right now that business card is their only clue so they decide to head to the address on the business card and try to save their little vampire before it's too late Lilith explains to Simon that she needs his blood because she wants him to turn Sebastian into a vampire so that he can rise again and he's going to start this New Order of demon shadow Hunters so you thought we were done when we got rid of Valentine no ma'am Simon is basically like listen this is not my first rodeo with the weird villain having this secret Eugenics program I'm not into it it's a a little boring at this point I'm going to go I'm just going to head out okay is that fine Lilith is basically like yeah good luck with that Simon uh if you were a true vampire maybe you could walk out of here but you still hold on to your humanity and all those weaknesses like pride and greed and love and so he the true romantic is like you're wrong love isn't a weakness and Lilith just smirks and says isn't it Simon is like oh because he knows when he turns around there's going to be a plot twist and he's like I cannot deal sure enough he turns around and standing there is Jace right in front of him is Clary with a bon handled knife glittering at her throat jaay is completely blank-faced by the way no Sparkle in his eye he's very like robotic zombie Vibes going on as he's like marching Clary forward with the knife to her throat and he says I brought her lady Lilith just like you asked Clary takes in the scene she can put puzzle pieces together okay she knows what's going down she like sees Sebastian sees Lilith bad news okay and tail is Old As Time Lilith can't hurt Simon but she can hurt him by hurting Clary you get it she's like Moren clearly didn't pan out let's try again but clary's like oh don't worry that plan's not going to work out because Jace would never hurt me right right Jace Lilith says hm really draw a little blood wouldn't you darling and without even a hesitation just a little bit of stiffness Jace cuts into her throat Jace is completely under Lilith's power she has been in his dreams combing through his psyche to figure out exactly how to get him under her control and remember that Rune that Max Drew on him in his dream yeah kind of sealed the deal so Jace is also kind of part of this weird plan in a way so he got resurrected by the angel and that kind of messed with the scales of life right the light of the Angels the darkness of the Demons they have one extra angel now and so Lilith is like Bingo that means I get to resurrect a demon also a weird fun fact Lilith is the demon that gave her blood to Valentine to feed to Sebastian so in a up way Lilith is kind of Sebastian's mom and speaking of being the mother of a new race of demons the gang Isabelle Maya Etc they show up at the address they're downstairs they are all seeing the worst thing they have ever seen Maya throws up on the spot and Isabelle is almost right behind her and we we know that this girl has seen some okay so what we see they find an entire room filled with babies upwards of 50 of them that are dead and have demon claws they are mini sebastians at the same time that they are witnessing this upstairs at the top of the construction site Simon is agreeing to work with Lilith he's like I'm not letting you hurt Clary they've been friends since kindergarten he can't remember a time in his life when he didn't love Clary so biting back the urge to be sick he bent and sank his teeth into Sebastian's throat black demon blood poured into his mouth as bitter as poison back downstairs with Isabelle she manages to find a woman who is like wandering around and this is where we find out that Lilith has been basically starting a cult and targeting desperate people people who are currently without homes people who have addictions Etc and promising them strength and you know a bright future because she starts feeding them demon blood and at first they start to feel really strong they all join this Cult of Lilith and then they donate their babies to the cause the only problem is none of those babies survived right we're trying to make a demon baby apparently using Mortals just isn't going to cut it and all the parents are dying too from the poison so as the woman breathes her last breath she lets it slip that a vampire headed upstairs so they got the right address they just entered at ground level so they need to get up to the top floor for Simon ASAP and they don't even know that they also are trying to save Jay and Clary a lot of things start to happen at once this is a classic Cassie Clair action sequence we are at the climax of this novel okay uh the gang heads for the elevator immediately get attacked by the remaining Cult of Lilith members okay so now we got to fight through the crowd Clary is using her beautiful brain because I'm going to rewind a little bit remember when she created that Rune that woke up the shadow hunter from his death and he was in such extreme pain what I didn't mention is that Luke actually poured some like acid or something on the shadow Hunter's skin where she had drawn the Rune so once you kind of ruined the Rune tattoo its powers kind of go away so he put acid on the Rune and the shadow Hunter went back to his death basically so Clary really quickly grabs one of her knives and just stabs Jace where that new Lilith Rune is that's all it takes for Jace to be free of Lilith's mind control so they immediately jump into action Simon hasn't fully finished changing Sebastian yet so Lilith is like it send out the hell hounds meanwhile downstairs Alec fighting his way through the cultists he sudden suddenly recognizes a familiar face there's a woman tied in the corner of the room who is it Camille remember how Camille said that she was only following orders when she was killing those Shadow Hunters it was Lilith and basically because she kind of squealed to Magnus Lilith found out is punishing Camille and Camille is like listen if it comes down to a shadow Hunters versus Lilith Lilith is crazy I really regret working with her so I would join your side Alec could you please untie me please believe me let me go and I will help you guys Alec does start to untie her as he's doing this Isabelle runs into the room and is like we got through we got to go let's get in the elevator as Alec turns back Camille is gone upstairs is chaos because none of them none of these three will leave each other but not all three of them are going to walk out of this room alive today so of course like Jace almost gets killed trying to fight these hell hounds to get Clary to safety he like finally gets her next to the elevator and he's like go Jace turns to Lilith and says you can't hurt Simon and you can't kill me because I'm the tether between the balance right like if Lilith kills Jace then everything is equal and she can't resurrect Sebastian right and Jace thinks that Clary has gotten in the elevator by the way so he's like Checkmate lady what are you going to do you can't hurt us when Clary the one that she can hurt pops out of the shadows and both Simon and jaay are just like read the room girl like please leave but she's just like no I got to protect my boyfriends and when she jumped out of the Shadows Jace's face became a mask of horror he was pale his bravado gone his hands clenched into fists that were white at the knuckles I'll do what you want Lilith just let her go he realizes like clary's not going to listen Lilith is going to grab her we're basically Lilith is about to strike Clary with this like silver wire weapon I don't know bizarre and this is when Simon gets his first taste of how godamn fast vampires actually are before he even realizes it he is standing in front of Clary the long razored silver wire struck him across the face and chest there was a moment of shocking pain and he could hear Clary screaming but then Lilith froze she Drew went a long ragged breath and whispered Sevenfold because of Simon's curse she attacked Clary but accidentally hit Simon that little cut that she gave Simon yeah seven times for a moment she was a mass of burning filaments and then she was salt raining down at Simon's feet with a dreadful sort of beauty she was gone way to go Simon Okay save the day these two power couple let me tell you Clary has passed out uh for reasons I don't know um she wakes up kind of vaguely and all she can hear is Simon going like her pulse is steady but like not steady enough she was quite injured in the fight as well like fighting the hell hounds and everything and Lilith made Jace throw out his and clary's Stell so he can't even draw a healing Rune on her so jaay is like listen you pick her up bring her downstairs and Simon is like not you you don't want to pick her up and Jay is like H I don't think she really wants me to touch her right now and Simon is actually like yeah fair enough at this point Simon realizes that Clary is actually awake and can hear them and she's like no I can walk let's go at the sound of her voice Jace turns around and he's totally cut up and they're not used to seeing each other damaged because a Clary hasn't been in a lot of fights but also they're constantly using healing runes so they don't get visibly injured that much and so seeing like both of them seeing each other like extremely injured is really jarring for them and so Clary is looking at him like holy are you okay and Jace is sort of looking at her very blankly Clary is used to reading his face as if she were reading the pages of a book but she could read nothing on it for a moment his expression kind of cracks and she can see whenever he looks directly at her wounds like where he cut her he gets like really emotional but overall he's trying to keep like no emotions on his face so that's weird keep that in your pocket but turns out Clary can't walk she tries to stand up Simon's helping her and her ankle is broken or something so her and Simon kind of hobble towards the elevator the elevator doors open and as they're about to get on the whole downstairs gang rushes out and they're super surprised because they weren't expecting to see Clary and Jace right they were only here for Simon Simon is kind of like what the are you guys doing here and Isabelle is like we're here for you babe and Clary is like leaning on Simon so she can kind of feel his chest swell he's like what and Isabelle kind of blushes realizing what she said a cute little millisecond okay Alec immediately starts going to heal Clary cuz he has his stele and Isabelle is like Simon why didn't you tell us anything before wandering off you can't just leave following the creepy vampire Child by yourself and Simon is basically like like I didn't want to drag you guys into my problems like this doesn't involve you drag me into your problems Isabelle sputtered you and then to everyone's surprise clearly including her own she flung herself at Simon wrapping her arms around his neck he staggered back unprepared for the assault but recovered quickly enough Clary couldn't quite tell because Isabelle was speaking too softly but it sounded an awful lot like she was swearing at Simon under her breath yeah he's a dumbass upstairs gang gives downstairs gang a rundown of what happened okay Isabelle is like okay so what I'm hearing is that Sebastian is mostly dead but that's not enough for me so she starts heading over to the coffin prepared to cut him into a million pieces and Simon is like well hold on we've got a problem Lilith said that Jace and Sebastian are like creating a balance and that Jace is Sebastian's kind of tether to the world what happens if Sebastian is also Jace's tether like they both have that Rune Clary stabbed uh Jace in the Lilith Rune but his skin can heal so that Rune is going to come back they both have the mark of Lilith on them what if they're connected in more ways than we understand if you cut Sebastian up into a million pieces I think there might be consequences um so they're like let's leave him there and call up the clave the clave who has done nothing okay literally these five team teenagers are carrying the weight of the world and this government has done nothing but sure sure let's leave the Sebastian thing to the clave okay um just for funsies if you're wondering um Maya and Jordan are part of the downstairs team they stayed downstairs and Maya is like overcome with emotion or something and kisses Jordan and then she's like Anyway let's go find the rest of the team and um Jordan is basically just like now that the main crisis has been averted and they're going to call the clave to clean up Sebastian everybody gets ready to leave and gets in the elevator Jace is like listen I kind of want to stay up here for a second and just like have a moment so I'll be right down the elevator doors start closing when Alec just shoves Clary out of the elevator doors the doors cloes and through the window Alec just smirks at her because now they are forced to be alone and they need to talk which clearly neither of them want to but Alex is a little stir and uh we appreciate that about him basically we learned that Jace was aware of himself the whole time like even though he couldn't control his actions it was like he was watching all of this stuff happening which makes it even more traumatic for him and he's basically like confirmed girl we cannot be together like I every time I'm near you I hurt you and I just can't do that anymore so like this just isn't meant to be he says we can't do this Clary I don't deserve you to which Clary is like you what about what I deserve okay I deserve a hot boyfriend and that is you and Jay kind of laughs and he's just like of course I would fall in love with someone who is as stubborn as I am and Clary is like wait hold on could you could you say what what was that that you said again that you you fell in in what with me but he's like no no I I didn't say anything I you know we're done Clary we can't do this anymore but Clary says you know what too bad I love you Jace whan her Andale Lightwood whatever you want to call yourself I don't care I love you and I will always love you and pretending it could be any other way is just a waste of our time and then Jace gets really intense and quotes Dante in Italian which Clary doesn't speak so he's like oh it's the very last verse from Paradiso Dante's Paradise my will and my desire were turned by love the love that moves the sun and the other stars Dante was trying to explain faith and maybe it's Blasphemous but that's how I think of the way that I love you you you came into my life and suddenly I had one truth to hold on to that I loved you and you love me and he could have stopped there that could have been a really cute love confession but he continues he says but then the nightmares started and I realized you don't deserve that pain Clary sees the emo start to Bubble Up so she cuts him right off she's like shut the up for one second okay she's like listen everything that was happening tonight I knew one thing and that was that you would not hurt me the person who was hurting me was not you Jace I have an absolute incontrovertible belief that you are good and that will never change and when he tries to protest Clary is like respectfully babe your opinion doesn't matter she says and I quote you don't have to believe me I have enough faith in you for the both of us his hands slid into her hair and he kissed her familiar and tender and soft this is when the clave finally arrives we get a kind of reunion with all the parents show up and are like wow yay my kids are alive haha some good things we get out of this Simon kind of has a moment with Isabelle and remember this whole book specifically Camille has been feeding him this rhetoric that the shadow Hunters never really respect him they're always going to think he's like this lower dirty vampire but the fact that all of his friends came to rescue just him remember they didn't know that Clary and Jace were there they were only coming to save Simon and that he just like never thinks of himself as a person that's like important enough basically he doesn't have main character energy this like really kind of changes things for him so yay for Simon we get like a shimmer of Happiness which is exciting um Magnus and Alec go off in a corner to make out which good for them Luke also talks to Simon and it's basically like listen I heard that your mom freaked out and uh cuz remember whole book he's been living with Jordan because he's not welcome in his home and he's like listen if you don't want to live with Jordan anymore you can come live with me like remember his sister didn't accept him when he first turned into a werewolf but he's like listen your mom's going to come around it'll be okay but like you have so many people who love you you've got a family until she turns around right which is also nice to hear meanwhile Clary has come down from the rooftop to see her mom and jaay stayed up there um because nobody thinks leaving a half dead Sebastian alone is a good idea so he's just like waiting for the cleave to make their way up to the rooftop he's looking down over the city the East River a black snake slithering between Brooklyn and Manhattan and he's sort of just like playing out what's about to happen in his head he's like first the clave are going to come and they're going to be sympathetic right because I was mind controlled but then they're going to remember whose son I am they'll start to turn on me they'll start to question whether I was really mind controlled and he's especially concerned with how Joselyn like Joselyn already doesn't like him so he's like great Joselyn this is just like another mark on my record for why I'm bad for Clary and as he's thinking about all this he looks down at his hand he realizes he has a knife grasped in his fingers as he tries to put it back in his belt his hand doesn't obey his body doesn't obey he turns against his will towards the pedestal where Sebastian's body lay and you know where this is going so buckle up did you think you were free because Lilith is gone said Sebastian's voice the vampire's bite woke me and now her blood in my veins compels you so come here so yeah basically just like a tricky little loophole even though Lilith isn't here Sebastian has her blood so the Lilith Rune of Mind Control he can use it cool great for Jace J is fighting so hard to not walk towards that coffin that he's literally like biting his own lips and he bites through his lips he's thinking that like maybe the pain will distract his mind and then he'll be free of it no dice against his will Jay's hands begin to rise and words spill from his own lips he heard them as if from an immense distance they were in some other language that he didn't know and he cuts through his own Palm the second the blood hits the water in the coffin Sebastian's eyes fly open they fix on Jace like great dark mirrors eventually there's so much blood in the water that Sebastian moves and sits up water runs off him like tears his pale hair pasted to his forehead seem to have no color at all then as if this isn't already freaky as Hell Sebastian takes the blade and cuts across his own palm and then he does like a little blood packed with Jace which is so icky even if you aren't demons Jace can feel ice beginning to spread in his veins from his hand a shudder passed over him and then he starts to convulse he tries to scream but no sound can come out he's just stuck looking at Sebastian's yucky wet body and still probably looks Dead face okay as blood ran through their intertwined fingers and down their wrists suddenly his mind feels a sense of Peace which probably is not a good thing and then there's a voice in his head that's like this is good Jace this is what your father would have wanted the voice in his head now was a familiar one we're one now little brother you and I Sebastian said we are one and now on to book five city of lost souls our prologue starts off exactly where City of Fallen Angels left off Simon is walking home he's in Brooklyn and after having talked to Luke about like listen your mom is going to come around don't worry he decides to go talk to his mom and he walks in to the apartment and his mom is still fully convinced that whoever this is he is a demon not her son okay so once again he gets violently thrown out of the house then he gets a call from Clary which is weird because they were just together and they're friends but like they have boundaries Clary is like hey um what's up and he's sort of like uh you know the worst night of my life but nothing much and clary's like hey um sorry to bother you but you know how we left Jace upstairs to like help clean up and Simon's like yeah I vaguely vaguely remember that why and clary's like um yeah cuz we funny we just can't find Jace and Simon's sort of like this this isn't the first time we can't find Jace I'm not as worried as you are but like for your sake I hope we find your boyfriend and clary's like yeah I know that's kind of his shtick but what makes me worry is that Sebastian's body is gone too part one no evil angel this takes place 2 weeks later Clary has been going through it so little detail that she didn't tell Simon um when they went upstairs to go find where Jace and Sebastian's body should have been there was a ton of blood like all over the place um and then two missing boys so Clary is freaked out because we still have no trace of where Jace could have been and she's been having to give her testimony over and over and over again to the cave using the Mortal sword remember this is a shadow Hunter sword that if you're holding it you have to tell the truth the clave has been hounding her because they're sort of like look at the Optics they already don't really trust Jace because again he's got this whole like he was raised by an evil villain situation and Sebastian's gone like it seems very like that he's still under Lilith's control and maybe he's just an evil guy so they're basically just having Clary tell the story again and again and again until she cracks and tells the truth and one big issue at the center of this whole story is the secret that Clary and Jace kept remember which is that Jace died and he was raised from the dead by an Angel and that is illegal you are not allowed to perform any kind of magic that involves resuscitating a dead person Clary is in deep but they are currently waiting outside the doors of the kind of courtroom I suppose where the cave is considering what to do about this and Isabelle is basically like Clary calm down you didn't resurrect him the angel did so leave it to her to like find every loophole but she's like just chill out it's going to be fine Jace is okay this whole crew is very sure that Jace is still alive especially Clary she's like I would feel it you know so they are very sure that Jace has just been taken which isn't great either but they are very sure that the boys are not in New York City anymore because they would have found them they're pretty sure so no leads no nothing where are they Alex suddenly pops in and he's like listen great news sort of turns out that there's some weird issue with the wards around the Moscow Institute so priorities have changed we've been using magnus' tracking spells to get any leads on these boys and we've got nothing so the clave is basically deprioritizing it they're like listen this isn't going anywhere we've got demons attacking Moscow and other institutes we got to deal with that so basically they're being kind of put on the back burner Clary included and Alec even though he's like never been quite nice to Clary like he's warmed to her but not a whole lot he's like listen Clary I would know too like I would physically know if my parabatai was dead and he's not dead but something feels Raw actually Alex says there's definitely something fundamentally wrong with him and if Simon were here that would definitely be his joke Alex says I don't know what it is but I've never felt anything like it before the clave are basically like we just need to wait until Sebastian makes a move and until then continue on with normal life so Alec is like listen Clary like he's alive you're not alone we're going to tear the world apart to find him so we got you girl basically um which is quite nice and kind of offbrand honestly for Alec this is when we remember that at the werewolf Party a mysterious Fay gave Clary that little Bell from the cely queen Clary was like I don't do fairy gifts you know and she was kind of like just take it just take it seems like Clary needs some help right she fills Isabelle and Alec in on what this is and she's like I'm going to use it like I think it's really dangerous but also leaving Jace in the hands of a resurrected demon child is also probably not that great so are you in and Alec goes back into his like protective grumpy old brother mode and he says quote the potential for danger is literally unlimited and Jace would kill me if he knew I let you do this and Clary says well Jace understands Jace would do it for me and Alec just looks at her like jaay would literally burn the whole world down and sift through the ashes for you but that doesn't mean it's a good idea but no one ever listens to Alec so ring the bell girl they decide to head out before they like call on the Fay in in the middle of the Institute and as they're walking out a familiar face is in the Institute and it's none other than a Leen go back to a long time ago Alene was allegedly Sebastian's cousin you remember this alen penalo she's just like a vaguely their character she's going to be a vaguely their character in this book as well but Alene is here and she is with her girlfriend Helen her mom is on the council so that's why they came here to do this whole like is clar criminal trial thing this is kind of a random scene and we know that she like doesn't have a filter so she just runs up to Alec and is like thank you so much for making out with your warlock boyfriend in front of everybody because that gave me the courage to tell my parents that I'm gay and everyone's like nice to see you too alen but yeah basically all of the Shadow Hunter parents are homophobic and she knew that and so that's why she never came out cuz remember she was kind of struggling with her sexuality in the previous book she decided after seeing Alec and Jace she was like it talk to her parents her parents are basically just acting like she never told them which sucks but she's like I'm the happiest I've ever been with Helen thank you so much which is sweet I think like say what you want about Cassie CLA but like she really was the only person writing at this scale like a series with this amount of popularity and to write about openly gay characters and their struggles at the time that was pretty rare to see so yay elen glad you're happy and she then shares this cute story about Jace randomly like I think she's trying to cheer up the gang she's she's just a bizarre little character she says whatever's on her mind so she says back when they lived in Idris as kids the lightwoods Isabel Alec and also Jace they were like Playmates with elene and so she remembers one time they were playing in the woods and they got horribly lost Jace was Never Scared even though it took us hours he got us out of that Forest and when we were all thankful he looked confused because of course he'd get us out failing wasn't an option elen says he'll find his way back to you I know it they are interrupted by Helen who comes running back into the room and she's like My Little Brother Jules is destroying your Institute so we got to go like can you help me we got to dip so alen and Helen go rush off to save the world from jueles Blackthorn I wonder if we'll ever see him again so after that conversation they continue on their mission Simon is waiting outside of the institute for them Clary is like don't worry I'm not going to jail they just deprioritized my case and Simon's like damn the cave sucks isn't that their motto Basia kokum and Alec is like it's desens Sno fail EST The Descent to hell is easy you said kiss the cook and Simon's like I knew Jace was screwing with me even when Jace isn't around we get great Jason and Simon content anyway off we go to the fairy Court long story short because this was a long story they get to the fairy Court talk to the Cy queen of course this doesn't come free they need to do something in order for her help finding Jace so the sely queen wants these fairy rings that if you wear them they're sort of like you can talk kind of like the silent Brothers you can telepathically speak if both people are wearing the fairy rings and she believes that they are in the institute on display in the library because the shadow Hunters steal everything from the downworlders and Isabelle is like oh yeah yep I know where it is we can get those for you no problem see you in a sec but as they're leaving the queen always needs to leave us with like a weird riddle she says something to consider as is often happen stance with what which is precious and lost when you find him again he may not be quite as you left him then we get just a lot of kind of character building scenes a lot of fleshing out of these relationships we still have Alec and Magnus struggling with immortality basically as a topic they're tiptoeing around it they're getting better but they're really just avoiding the subject instead of talking about it head on keep that in your back pocket that's going for the entire book we also have Simon and Clary are back to being BFFs Isabelle saw how much Clary is really suffering about this and she's like Simon you need to support her like I as much as I'm a girl's girl we are not that close you need to be there for her so Simon's actually been like sleeping over at her house and just kind of distracting her and being there and it's just a I love their friendship they're good people and then also going on in the background is Simon ends up popping back into the apartment to grab some of his things and Jordan and Maya are there because they're something's up we don't know we don't know what's going on with them but they're both there and they're like Simon thank God you're here your phone is blowing up and it's his sister Rebecca who is away at college so during this whole meltdown with his mom she hasn't been there and she has not been caught up on the whole vampire thing and he's just not ready to have another conversation with a family member that is probably going to disown him so he just he's like Let it go to voicemail I can't I can't even though um these two are really pushing him they're like no she's reaching out like you should try but he's like no not today so that's all going on but we need to go get the fairy rings for the cely queen since we know exactly where they are this isn't going to be necessarily a difficult Heist so Clary decides to go at it alone so she sneaks into the library during an uh clave meeting so the Institute is pretty much deserted and she grabs the Rings score turns and is about to head out when she hears footsteps and a familiar voice you were right Jace it's deserted she looked down at the first floor of the light library and sunlight poured through the Skylight lighting the floor like a spotlight on a stage and there standing directly below her was Jonathan Christopher Morgan Stern AKA Sebastian Alive and Kicking man walking through libraries having conversations he's back baby Jace is there too both of the Jonathan Christopher Sterns are there and they seem to be looking for some kind of summoning book it's unclear but they're talking in a way that like is sort of friendly it's always hard to tell with Jace because Jace is kind of like lovingly mean to the people he loves but this seems like I mean they're talking similar to how him and Simon speak not like their enemies not like he's there under duress not in the way a kidnapped boy speaks to his demon kidnapper right what shocks Clary the most is that this whole time she's been picturing him locked in a dungeon starving not sleeping you know but he looks good like he looks healthier than previously in the past book when he was like freely able to make out with Clary whenever he wanted to but he still looked really upset he looks healthier and happier now but before Clary can do anything about that they vanish Clary immediately finds Alec and Isabelle obviously to catch them up on what happened and Alec is like well he's probably still under Lilith's control control like that's why he went there so easily without a fight and clary's like no I've seen him under Lilith's control he was robotic remember he would always have this like very blank face she's like he was fully in control like that was Jace that I saw Free Will happy but never quite happy sarcastic and full of himself Jace Lightwood Jace whan Jace harale the only thing they can think of is that perhaps Jace is like trying to get on Sebastian's good side like kind of a reverse Stockholm syndrome so that he might be able to find like a weakness in Sebastian's armor and is able to send us a message or something like that but either way they all agree they cannot tell the clave because that could be misconstrued easily as Jace is working with Sebastian like oh look he wasn't fighting Sebastian he was happily walking around the library with him of course they're in cahoots and that gives the clave authority to kill Jace on site because the clave sucks kiss the cook and on top of that Clary forgot to grab the Rings she was so freaked out about this she left the rings in the library so the heist that was like the easiest part of this book um she failed that one so they have to find a way to get the fairy rings back but for the moment she can wait they're basically like we're not going to go to the cely queen for help it's just not going to happen so they decide to Pivot and go to Magnus because of course these children are going to save Jace all by themselves a couple more rapid fire scenes for you okay Clary is at home just like staring at the walls because what the has just happened in this book she comes up with another Rune we don't know what it's going to be used for it looks like an open Rune but different and she's just like I don't know what this does but okay so keep that in your back pocket we also have Maya and Jordan who are patrolling together they're kind of also just like constantly looking for any signs of jce throughout the city and they finally talked to each other about that sudden kiss when Maya like everything was chaotic and she just randomly like jumps on Jordan they clearly still have feelings for each other they have like completely cleared up the kind of misunderstanding and the kind of tragic thing that happened with both of them being turned into werewolves they're definitely like on the same page with that now they just really love each other and Jordan makes the mistake of saying it and Maya bolts it like so obviously comes out on accident he's like yeah I I just I'll Always Love You Maya and she's like that's a little bit of chaos that is like swirling slightly off screen and then finally we have this weird secret meeting with Alex and Camille remember at the very end of the book it was quite chaotic but during the fight scene in the church Alec discovered Camille and helped untie her and she kind of said something I didn't really mentioned it at the time but she said something about like let's chat about immortality when you get the chance you know if you're curious let's talk and of course Alec is curious because this whole time he's been like trying to convince Magnus to make him Immortal so that they don't have to worry about like being together forever or anything so if someone says let's talk about immortality the boy's going to pull up he arrives at some creepy location of course because it's Camille and she's basically like hey so remember remember when I said I might be able to give you immortality I misspoke she says that if they work together she will tell Alec away to take magnus's immortality away so instead of them both being Immortal they will both be mortal that sounds Shady sounds real shady that night Clary has a nightmare in which she's in this weird wintry landscape and all of a sudden Jace appears and grabs her and they're like running down this frozen lake and they kind of skid to a stop and he turns and he's like Clary you have to promise not to scream Clary bolts awake and who is in her bed but Jace and what does she do she screams he of course grabs her hand over her mouth and it's like dear God woman like please I'm going to take my hand off of your mouth got to be quiet turns out he knew that she was snooping in the library he could sense her you know they can feel each other he kind of waited to see what Clary would do like would she go to the council and turn him in he has no idea what she thinks of him because he has no faith in Clary right he does not believe that she unconditionally loves him and believes that he is truly good okay so he's sort of like what will it take for her to finally turn on me but she didn't go to the council clearly she's staying quiet so he felt like he could trust her he's going to come talk to her he explains this to her and he's so thank ful that like she's proven her love so he leans in to kiss her when the door to her bedroom slams open and who is it brother dearest Sebastian all right somehow Sebastian's opening line is basically like hey sis oo are we kissing we did that once we should do that again sometime here we go Jay is sort of like Sebastian I told you to stay outside you're ruining the vibe I need to talk to Clary please go away so he steps back back into the hallway Clary immediately whips around and is like what is going on like the Jace that I know would not be like even talking to Sebastian he would be ripping Sebastian's face off so like what is going on you need to explain fast buddy and Jay is sort of like it's way more complicated than you can imagine nothing is black and white we are bound to each other we're brothers and before he can get any deeper into that we hear shouting from the hallway because why would we leave Sebastian just like standing in clary's home where Joselyn is known to just wander the Halls because she knows clary's up to no good all the time Joselyn finds her demon child just hanging out in her house she freaks out obviously they come out of the room Joselyn has a kitchen knife over her head and she's like I should have done this when you were born and she goes at Sebastian Clary notices that Jace looks really freaked out by this like he looks scared for Sebastian and when Joselyn stabs him in the chest she hears Jas go like and she looks down and there is blood pulling from his chest as well just like Sebastian so let's put this together shall we they're connected they share a bond Sebastian just got stabbed and now Jace is bleeding oh no so of course Clary launches herself in between Joselyn and Sebastian being like Mom hold on hold on I know you don't like my boyfriend but like you're going to kill him if you kill Sebastian you kill Jace this is when Luke pulls around the corner with a shotgun the situation is deteriorating very quickly it becomes this crazy fight where like Jace jumps over the sofa knocks Luke down Joselyn and Sebastian are like trying to choke each other eventually Sebastian somehow stabs Luke with a silver dagger and that kind of makes everybody pause and Jason Sebastian just dip into the night but like what Joselyn and Clary take Luke immediately to the magic werewolf hospital and we find out that Sebastian wasn't using a silver dagger he was using a dagger made of demon metal so most of these shadow Hunter weapons are made from like an Angelic metal Sebastian has the opposite so every time that they try to dig there's like the tip of the dagger came off in Luke's Stab Wound every time they try to dig it out it just like Burrows deeper into Luke's body and it's just like cutting him up from the inside out they're going to leave him in the hospital for people to figure that out and rightfully so Joselyn is like I do not feel safe in my apartment anymore we're going to go crash with Magnus for a bit so the fry women move in with Magnus which I'm sure he loves Magnus believes that the lupus prer have information on the demon medal so he's going to go talk to Jordan about figuring that out that's Jordan's new Mission and then of course Joselyn and Clary get in a big fight over Jace and how Joselyn just hates how obsessively in love Clary is with Jace and she's sort of like lowkey it reminds me of how I felt about Valentine so just you got to stay away from him leave this up to the clave to find him this is when brother Zachariah shows up and once again this man is a genius he has more brains than probably five of these characters combined he is like based on everything you've told me I don't think jaay is possessed what you described it seems very similar to a parabati bond so what him and Jace have they both share physical pain maybe not to the extent of like if you get stabbed I get stabbed pretty similar they can sense each other seems like a kind of demonic parabati Bond and on top of that he's like and based on my studies of said Bond I believe that there is always one of the pair that is more in control and the other one simply follows and so obviously Sebastian is the one in control but the kicker is Jace doesn't feel that like basically what the bond does is all of Sebastian's opinions and thoughts and feelings are basically transplanted into Jace but Jace doesn't think so they think that they are his own opinions if his favorite ice cream flavor used to be mint chocolate chip and Sebastian's is chocolate all of a sudden jaay is like wow yeah chocolate is the best flavor and he truly believes that that just like came from within him he has no concept of the fact that he's actually being controlled which is so dangerous but clary's like okay whatever like I don't give a about what his favorite ice cream flavor is I want to know what Sebastian wants like what is he getting out of this and also how do we kill him without killing my boyfriend we have reached the bottom of brother zachariah's well of knowledge he's like that's above my pay grade if you want to talk about weapons specifically demonic weapons we got to go talk to the iron sisters the iron sisters once again are the kind of female counterpart of the silent brothers and they make all of the Shadow Hunter weapons okay so road trip we get this random scene in Jordan's apartment where Isabelle shows up looking for Simon and he's not there and Isabelle just kind of gr and she's like G I think about him all the time and it's awful and nothing like this has ever happened to me before that scrawny little mundane bastard and then she continues to just talk about how she accidentally fell in love with Simon and Jordan just has to sit there on the couch like while she is Raging she's like pacing around like this Simon guy who does he think he is she's having a rough go of it and Jordan just has to Bear witness speaking of Simon he meets up with Clary at a diner this is where we learned that Clary lied she said that she forgot the fairy rings in the library that's not the case she kept them she just had a change of heart she doesn't want to work with the fairy queen so she was like telepathic Rings sounds like a good deal took them and has now devised her own plan that does not include the Fay okay so she whips out the Rings she has this horrible plan and I'm just going to read you the scene she began to explain but she she hadn't yet reached the end of her description when Simon interrupted out loud this time no absolutely not Simon she said it's a perfectly fine plan the plan where you follow Jace and Sebastian off to some unknown dimensional pocket and we use these rings to communicate so those of us over here in the regular dimension of Earth can track you down that plan let me introduce you to my good friend no I'll do it anyway she said if I can't use the Rings I'll still follow Jace to wherever he is I'm going to do it Simon I just have a better chance of surviving if you help me so of course Simon finally agrees he's like it like he even tries to get Clary to send him instead because he's indestructible so like let me go find Jace and no dice so Simon's like just remember when your mother is gnawing my ankle like a furious Mama Bear separated from her cub I did it for you Clary heads out to grab some supplies and she hopes that like when she's by herself Jace will contact her as Simon heads home he finds a note that Isabelle left basically being like I'm kind of freaking out and I would really like to see you I'm at magnus's apartment come as soon as you can and even before he's done reading the note he's on his way to magnus's house to get his girl she's just freaking out like Alec isn't really talking to her he's not talking to anybody who isn't Magnus Jace is missing like she doesn't really have anyone to confide in um and so she's just really having a hard time she can't get to sleep and she's just like Simon can you you just lay here until I fall asleep and just tell me a story where the good guys win and he's like okay okay I got it fairy tales here we go and she's like no we studied fairy tales in school I don't want that tell me something new and Simon's like okay I got a good one Simon stroked Isabelle's hair feeling her lashes flutter against his neck as she closed her eyes a long time ago in a galaxy far far away Leia is my sister back with Clary and her little suicide mission sure enough the second she's alone Jace finds her to his credit he does apologize he's like hey sorry about Luke that wasn't supposed to happen but I'm here to bring you with me and clary's like great cuz I was going to follow you anyway I will follow you anywhere Jace Jace leaned forward and kissed Clary and she tasted something bitter on his lips then a Darkness came down like a curtain signaling the end of the act of a plan part two certain dark things we start off in the car with Maya and Jordan they are on their way to try and find the head of the prer lupus basically the head guardian of the Guardian wolves because they think he'll know how to help Luke with his wound and it's the best time to have awkward conversations when you're stuck in a car together so Maya is like listen Jordan I'm sorry I freaked out when you said that you loved me I just I really really want to take this one slow okay so like how about we just we start off as friends expect everybody to do everything and Jordan is like uh respectfully no no I'm I cannot be your friend I'm not going to lie to you he says I'm in love with you I have always been and I always will be I literally cannot be your friend he says he's willing to take it slow and wait but he's not going to play around and like pretend he doesn't have these intense feelings for her but if she wants to just be friends and there's like no chance of this going any further Jordan's like let's just rip it off like a Band-Aid Maya like tell me where you stand he looked at her bracing as if for a blow but she simply unclipped her seat belt scooted across the bench seat towards him and kissed his cheek I feel like Isabelle and Simon think that they are the like one couple that communicates but Maya and Jordan are just like the two most uncomplicated people so I just feel like they're a breath the fresh air so one mess off the docket speaking of mess the girl in The Very middle of it all Clary she is continuing to have these creepy dreams about this winter escape and she's running on Frozen water but when she wakes up she is in an unfamiliar room she tries to use her fairy telepathy ring thing to talk to Simon and gets no answer because there was no guarantee that wherever the hell these people are hiding the fairy rings would even work so great start great start she is all alone but weirder still she's all alone in a super modern apartment that's like all White and chrome and black leather and there's like a fireplace that it's not described this way but I picture it as those fireplaces that use like glass instead of wood you know it's very cold but like some would call it Chic not my style she explores the whole place no one is there so it's multiple stories she's just free rain walking around trying to figure out where she is she finally finds a window and looks out and sees a bridge and people like walking near a canal and she's like where the are we she starts naming Canal City she's like is this Amsterdam are we in Venice like what is going on she of course bangs on the window and shouts trying to get the attention of the people down on the street but no dice now that she has explored the entire house um she heads back to the bedroom that she was in that she woke up in and she notices that there's a closet there filled with women's clothes that are all her size and like all her favorite colors very bizarre as if someone had planned for a long time that she would be here she manages to find Jace's room uh and she knows it's his because it's a mess and it smells smells like him then she finds another bedroom and she assumes it has to be Sebastian so she starts snooping around suddenly arms wrap around her tightly from behind and for a moment she thought it was Jace so she begins to relax what are you doing in my room Sebastian asks against her ear luckily Jace immediately shows up behind Sebastian and is like what are you doing get the back and Sebastian's like chill man just welcoming my little sis home I'm so happy we basically get a rundown that this apartment actually used to be Valentine's and he like set it up with the hope that one day Joselyn would forgive him and come back to him so that's why all the clothes in clary's room fit her cuz they're like the same size okay so really that's like her mother's wardrobe created by Valentine this is also a pocket Dimension so the apartment can move anywhere it wants to so right now they're in Venice but they could just like swirl a dial and be in Paris the next day um but Sebastian doesn't trust Clary enough to give her any more information about what are they doing these two boys and their weird like Dimension hopping apartment he's not going to tell us and so Jace is like listen if Clary stays here for a week and gains your trust will you tell her and and us dear reader what the is going on and so Sebastian agrees like yes she can stay trial period and you are not a prisoner here so you are allowed to go wherever you want as long as you are supervised which kind of sounds like she's a prisoner but whatever um and so Jace is just like great Clary get your things let's go on a date and sure enough they are in Venice he like puts his hand on a wall and it melts away and let's have a cute little Italian vacation are you sure you know how to drive this thing this is Roma nobody knows how D meanwhile remember how brother Zachariah said that the only way that they could find a weapon to fix this whole thing is to go to the iron sisters everybody has been congregating in magnus's house okay this is like headquarters so while they were there it was decd decided that Isabelle and Joseline should be the ones to go talk to the iron sisters because they're both women they're both Shadow Hunters they are the most likely to be welcomed with open arms what we learn is that basically they can't help they're like we can't make anything that would only kill one and not the other but we know something that might be able to they said that your best bet is to use a Blade of Heaven or Hell such as the sword of the Archangel Michael that has Heavenly Fire infused into to it that could do it but how the hell you get your hands on one of those puppies no idea the iron sisters are like if I know they're basically like our best guess is to summon an angel but if you summon an angel you get blasted by Heavenly Fire and you die so good luck with that that's I mean that's why Valentine died when he summoned the angel and then Clary was there to be like ooh I get his wish whoever were to summon an angel in order to get that blade to sever the bond would end up like Valentine crispy and dead and in the background of all of this stuff going on Alec just keeps meeting up with Camille he's really invested in this like immortality mortality thing and he's like if I were to get rid of magnus's immortality what would I have to do exactly and Camille is like oh nothing much just uh kill Raphael so that's going on keep that in the back of your head back in magnus's apartment where everybody is Simon finally wakes up and turns out the fairy rings actually do work Simon was just asleep so he's kind of like Clary are you there and she's like I'm not alone we can't talk now talk later good news on that front right he goes out into the kitchen and sees that everybody is there arguing over the news that Isabelle and Joselyn just brought back from the iron sisters that we need to summon an angel to get a Blade of Heaven to slice up this Bond okay and of course what we've already talked about you can't summon an angel without being killed by Heavenly Fire so Magnus is sort of like well hold on what did the iron sisters say exactly and if you remember they said you could use a Blade of Heaven or Hell and the theme of this book is really like taking everything that's slightly Angelic and producing a demonic version so Magnus is like it's easier to summon a demon like you you could die but you aren't guaranteed to die by summoning a demon so why don't we try doing that Joselyn being the mom uh of the crew is like absolutely not it's not something that we would do she is new to dealing with this crew so this is absolutely something that they would do Joselyn is like this is too insane for me I'm going to go wake up my daughter and check on her and remember Simon's whole job is to like hold off Joselyn before she realizes that Clary is missing and clary's only been gone for like a couple hours Simon is like oh no you can't go in the room and before he can come up with any kind of reasoning he's just like yeah she's not there he caves Joselyn just starts screaming at everybody Simon is obviously supposed to keep Clary safe but also Magnus she's like Magnus you have Wards around your house how did she get get out and he's like the wards are to keep evil things out not keep things in and Magnus is like and I also don't appreciate you yelling at me because Clary is an awful lot like her mother so maybe you should blame her and Joselyn is just like oh I can't deal with this she's going to go to the hospital to stay with Luke she expects Simon to give her 24-hour updates on her daughter and I feel like I'm I don't really have that much motherly Instinct but I feel like I would want more than just one update her day on like what my daughter is doing hanging out with a demonic psychopath you know like anyway joselyn's josin so she heads out Magnus closes the door behind her and whips around to his little posy in his living room and he's just like who's ready to raise a demon the middle of this book is just chaos so really quickly Maya and Jordan are on Long Island searching for the head Guardian werewolf they're doing great good teamwork thank you for your service meanwhile back with Magnus the demon r in crew they are gathering every single candle that Magnus has in his house which is a lot pretty easily summon the demon Magnus is half demon okay so I feel like he knows what he's doing and we quickly realize that this is not going to work out okay we're only halfway through the book first in payment the demon requests a happy memory from everyone which I feel like is not a good thing so he just like slurps up a memory from each person and so after all that the demon is like there's no weapon that I can think of that can do that but if you let me wander around until I find Sebastian I can take Sebastian into hell and so he won't be harmed he'll just be stuck in hell and Jace can hopefully then just like live out his life it's just a bad plan overall and also the demon demands to be like given Free Will and set loose onto the Earth and even these clowns are like you know setting a prince of Hell loose on planet Earth is like probably not the best plan so they swiftly just like banish the demon and they're like okay next plan that was a failure so Magnus turns to Alec and is like okay we're going to use your beautiful brain do you have any ideas and Alec just looks at him like who are you because remember the demon took their happiest memories right and Magnus is like and Alec is like just kidding but to be fair that's absolutely some that Cassie CLA would pull so I'm with you Magnus I was scared for a second there they are trying to decide whether or not it's worth it to let a prince of hell do his dirty work on Earth just to make sure that Sebastian isn't loose on earth when Maya and Jordan walk in the room back with Clary we get this weird scene where she's kind of like wandering the apartment at night she's having trouble sleeping because she's in a very weird situation ation and she stumbles across Sebastian who may or may not be having a threesome with a vampire and a human girl human girl may or may not have been aware that the person was a vampire before this all went down it's just a very icky situation but he just like casually waltzes into the kitchen to have a chat with Clary and he really wants her to know that he is not valent time that every time he has hurt someone it has been an accident against his will he didn't mean to Kill Max how do you accidentally kill a child I'm not so sure but he claims that everything is just a misunderstanding and he's really working hard to prove to her that he isn't his father just like Jace isn't Valentine Sebastian isn't Valentine either and one of his arguments is that like he also doesn't like using the name Jonathan Christopher Morganstern he prefers being named Sebastian so he's like look I'm just like Jace I don't like having the name that Valentine gave me either doesn't that prove anything weak but that's his argument speaking of vampires we're back with the demon raising gang they are out of ideas they're like we let's just take a time out everybody go get some sleep Isabelle again is like Simon I literally cannot sleep if you're not around so can you still hang out here like clary's gone so you don't need to babysit her please babysit me instead and Simon is like I would and I will but I need to go out and get something to eat if you know what I mean but then Simon's sort of like you know what I don't even know how I'm going to get human blood like this is just ridiculous I'm just going to go to sleep I can figure it out tomorrow I'm really tired too so they head to bed Isabelle leans in to kiss Simon good night and immediately his fangs pop out so he's like big mistake should have gone to get that snack and so Isabelle is like why didn't you say anything like I'm right here literally a b blood freshes can possibly be we get the classic I could kill you and the but I trust you to stop because you love me conversation and as always as we will find out every argument Isabelle wins Isabelle is basically like you fed from Jace and Simon is like I wasn't attracted to Jace and Isabelle is sort of like not even not even like a little bit not even a little bit girl after my own heart even she ships Simon and Jace like Cassie you stole so much from us Isabelle's literally like that's a bummer cuz that'd be pretty hot but anyway here you go I trust you and very carefully Simon takes a bite and spoiler he doesn't kill her we get a moment in The Institute where Maurice Lightwood has discovered something a little bit odd so Valentine put all of these different runes on his members of his inner circle and one of those runes is a tracking Rune so Maurice is suddenly like you know what I bet he put a tracking Rune on Jace too like his son so she checks the map that Valentine used to watch people's locations on and she sees his Rune popping up but like only for split seconds and all over the world so she calls brother Zachariah and is like listen this is the information I have he's alive so like yay but something's really bizarre and something tells me we shouldn't tell the clave this and even brother Zachariah silent brother who used to be a shadow Hunter even he is like yeah we're not telling the cave so let it be known that there is not a person in this world that trusts their government so now everyone is in cahoots we've got the silent Brothers we've got the of institutes we've got mothers demons and warlocks everybody is lying to the clave to protect this cutie speaking of the missing boy these three are in Prague now because Sebastian has an errand to run turns out he needs to buy Adamas if I'm pronouncing that correctly which is essentially the material used to make holy weapons which normally only the iron sisters can work with right in order to make Shadow Hunter weapons somehow he gets his hands on some but during the exchange the person he's buying it from is actually a demon and there's this whole huge fight that goes down in self-defense Clary actually ends up killing the demon and this is the first time she has ever killed a demon by herself remember like Isabelle or someone has always stepped in to kind of deal the final blow but Clary has made her first kill and she feels this high like no other this is when she's really like damn I am meant to be a shadow Hunter I love this good for her I guess you go girly glad you found your calling but speaking of hi because they ended up killing the person who was selling them this Adamas they ended up getting what they wanted for free so they're like we're going to go out and celebrate we've got all this extra cash Clary just made her first demon kill we're in Prague let's go have fun okay Prague is known for their night club scene so get ready pandemonium part two I don't know why but this scene is like burned into my memory like if I think about this series as a whole I remember this specific scene as if it were an entire book itself and I cannot tell you why so please let me know if you have a certain scene of this book burned into your memory because no explanation here we go they end up heading to a downworlder nightclub they're kind of dancing whatever and then Jace is like here why don't you have some of this not fairy wine like it isn't fairy wine but it's definitely some kind of downworlder spirit if you will Clary makes it very clear that like she has never done drugs she doesn't really drink other than that one time that her and Simon drank a lot of Kala and threw up and they were both like yep done with that um so she's hesitant at first but then she's like damn it I just kind of want to forget this whole mess for a little bit and it would be nice if I could just have fun and let go and Jace is very much like come on it'll be fun you know like pressuring her ma'am to try this ma'am sketchy silver liquid nuh-uh in a down worlder nightclub in Prague what could go wrong turns out we get our first like real hot and heavy scene between Clary and jaay we've gotten the make out the like kiss that transports her to a different dimension scenes plenty of those but now it's getting a little bit more serious Jay kind of leads her to a more secluded area I picture like a bunch of blue strobe lights I don't know why they're in this little Al Cove making out up against this grimy wall Clary is grabbing at Jason's shirt when she realizes it's sticky she looks down at her hands and is like that's not alcohol and when she goes to look up at Jace she looks past him and notices there is is a human pinata hanging from the ceiling dripping blood I don't know if she's having a bad trip or not but either way she blacks the out meanwhile as this is going on in another room Sebastian is meeting up with melor remember the bay that once kind of dated Isabelle but was the guy who the cely queen really wanted to get on the new downworlder Council and now he seems to be allying with Sebastian like it seems like the cely queen has decided to be on Sebastian's side of whatever war is about to erupt so that's weird later when Clary wakes up back in the apartment Jace is there being like I'm so sorry you were having a bad trip that was all your imagination but like I understand I'm so sorry you're safe now blah blah blah and Clary is sort of like off honestly like I need a little time by myself so Jace excuses himself she looks down at her hand and realizes her fairy ring is gone so any connection she had with the outside world that could potentially keep her safe she's stuck so she starts running around the apartment trying to figure out where it could be when she sees Simon start to leave the apartment like he puts his hand on the wall and it starts to melt away remember Clary has no access to the door like only Jason Sebastian can open it so she just like split-second decision decides to jump dump after him through the portal that he just opened which I just don't think is a great idea even Clary like for all of the shitty split-second decisions Clary has made because there's a reason there are six long books in this series even Clary is like oo I think I kind of made a mistake with this one because they pop out in Paris rather than just breaking free and finding a way to contact Simon or anything like that she just continued to follow Sebastian he ends up leading her to an apartment where they're having like a demon party like it's filled with just demons not even downworlders like straight up little children of hell and we end up getting like two to three scenes of Clary just being attacked like they immediately sense that she's a shadow Hunter and they just descend on her the second she walks in the room Sebastian eventually is able to grab her and save her uh but not before she gets bitten and poisoned by some kind of demon bite before she blacks out for the second time in less than 12 hours let me say the amount of like losing Consciousness that these young people go through in Cassie cla's Universe it's a lot so she's blacked out once again and the only thing that she can remember before she loses Consciousness is Sebastian drawing a rune on her arm and then everything's dark now let's head back to the demon raising team who are by the way calling them eles team good so I'm going to call them team good now they've decided that you know what the demon thing didn't work out the other option is summoning an angel when suddenly Simon is like wait a damn minute people I'm unkillable the whole issue with summoning an angel is that you are going to be dowed in Heavenly Fire and killed but my whole shtick is that I cannot be killed the Rune on me means that I cannot come into any harm so Bingo why don't I just summon the angel Magnus is sort of like hot damn that's not a bad idea only problem is that the angel is up to 60 ft tall Angels like the actual biblical description of angels is terrifying so Cassie seems to go like a little closer to the more biblically correct Angel so Magnus is like yeah we don't want to have this like 60ft giant winged multiple eyeballed angel pop up in the middle of Brooklyn so why don't we head to Luke's farm upstate as people in Upstate New York have seen things and they won't question it back with Clary she is still coming like in and out of Consciousness and all she knows is that she is being carried by Sebastian and she's having this kind of internal battle because for some reason she feels comforted she feels safe in his arms she says she knows it's weird but he seems to be trying really hard to walk carefully like to not jostle her and he did actually save her life so she's like this picture doesn't fit like this doesn't this isn't the Sebastian that I think of as like no feelings psychopath evil demon child right he ends up taking her to a park to help her wake up a little bit more I'm not sure and when she finally wakes up he explains why he is acting the way that he's acting and he's like listen I know that there is a war coming the clave are idiots which again everyone on this board agrees the clave are not prepared for a demon war and so Sebastian is trying to save the world in a kind of Twisted way where he thinks we're not prepared so I'm going to build my own Army like if the shadow Hunters aren't going to think of new ways to protect the world from demons I'm going to do it so that's what he's doing is like trying to create an army not to take over the world and destroy it but to save it so he wants to tell Clary more about his plan he's like listen will you just give me a second like can I just show you what I'm talking about and Clary says like shouldn't we shouldn't we tell Jace first like I want all three of us to be together for this and Sebastian's like no don't worry Jace is asleep I know that sounds like a throwaway pay attention Okay so if you thought that Jace was emo King Supreme hold on tight because Sebastian is coming for his crown as they are now walking around Paris Sebastian gives Clary a rundown of her family because clary's like you know what I'm a Morgan Stern I don't know anything about them like could you what is our family and she's like I don't understand how Jace plays instruments and knows about books and speaks all these different languages and Sebastian doesn't right like Jace grew up with Pian and all this stuff and Sebastian says Joselyn influenced Valentine to learn about books and music so Valentine passed that love of things on to Jace Sebastian held his hands up I on the other hand learned to play the instruments of war and blood I'm not like Jace we get a long scene where Sebastian buys Clary some hot chocolate and he keeps talking about his past and like the main thing is that he just wants to be loved like even though jaay had a up childhood he still had moments where Valentine clearly cared like let him play piano let him read books killed his pet Hawk but Sebastian was basically like just taught how to kill and taught how to like make people believe that he has feelings and he really wants to find someone who feels similar to him and he keeps pushing this idea on Clary and this is where it gets weird because he's like and I really think that that's us Clary we're the same because I don't really care about killing people and you don't really seem that shaken up of the fact that you killed your own father so like how many signs of the universe do you need girl we are soulmates platonic soulmates H anyway they finally get to where they're going remember Sebastian wants to show her his plan they get to an apartment and he buzzes his way up and a woman opens the door he introduces us to Sister Magdalena sister magdalina used to be an iron sister but she left The Sisterhood and you can't just leave The Sisterhood you need to be banished and how do you get to be banished Sebastian turns to Clary and says who do you think gave the circle all of their weapons yeah sister she's a bad none but remember go back to Prague Sebastian has just come into possession of a bunch of admas that material that the iron sisters Ed to make weapons so he is going to Sister Magdalen in order for her to make something out of that material that will help him build his army to save the world he basically hands her the material is like here you go please make that thing that I asked you to make okay bye we're going to go and sister Magdalena just takes the package looks up at Clary and Sebastian and it's just like God you look just like your parents the siblings head back to the apartment and this is where we find Jace who is in in the training room who is hot and sweaty and bothered because nobody left him a note but now that we're all together we're going to learn the full scope of Sebastian's plan the plan that these two teenage boys have cooked up to save the world okay they have asked sister Magdalena to create not a sword not a dagger but a second mortal cup stick with me here okay a cup is just a cup it's just a cup made from this fancy metal until you add blood that ends up making it a mortal cup so Sebastian has been working on convincing the demons that they want to make a demon version of a shadow Hunter which is an easy thread to believe because that's what his daddy wanted to do but what they're going to do is gather some of the greater demons who are going to come and put their blood into the cup but in reality they aren't going to put their blood into the cup while they are in this meeting Jace and Sebastian are going to kill them all so now the greater demons aren't going to hurt the world and the day is saved basically it's a big trap there are so many plot holes this is so dumb okay obviously cooked up by these two that is what their big plan is they're going to have a big old Conference of demons and kill them all in one spot shaky at best we also get many pages of Jace telling us how corrupt the clave is like just hammering that home in case we didn't get that from the other four books that we've read and Clary is basically like thank you guys so much for trusting me with your plan this is stupid as hell but now if you're thinking like wow this is great all three of them are working together Carrie you really had me worried about that whole incest thing like it seems like Sebastian's fine now what were you talking about Clary says that she's tired because she had a rough day she has again been knocked unconscious twice in the past 12 hours walked all around Paris for who knows how long and she just heard her brother and boyfriend come up with the stupidest plan of the century so she's like I'm going to go sleep this off she starts to head upstairs and Sebastian is like hold on can you give me my scarf back cuz when they were walking around Paris it was chilly he gave her his scarf like a nice brother and Clary is like oo yeah sorry and she's kind of like struggling to get it off Sebastian made an impatient noise and stalked across the room towards her his long legs covering the space between them quickly she stiffened as he put his hand on her throat and deftly undid the knot in a few motions to unwrap the scarf she thought for a moment that he lingered before unwrapping it fully his fingers brushing her throat she remembered him kissing her on the hill by the burned remains of the fair child Manner and how she felt as if she were falling into a dark abandoned place she backed up hastily thanks she yells and darts up the stairs not looking behind to see her brother watch watch her go holding the scarf a quizzical expression on her face so tell me why there is still some kind of sexual tension between these two tell me why but don't worry Cassie is going to balance that out with some good sibling content okay how siblings should act in case you're worried let's go back to Simon who remember has been dodging phone calls from his sister who is away at College who does doesn't know what's going down all she knows is that her mom is freaking out and she can't get a hold of her baby brother so Simon finally picks up he's like listen potentially going to die going to go meet an angel might as well talk to my sister who is now home for like Thanksgiving break or something they end up meeting in Central Park and Simon is just like here's my truth tells her the whole damn story and at first Rebecca is like come again like what did you just tell me Sebastian says listen I'm a vampire and I just wanted to see you one time before I disappear from your lives forever cuz I know you guys don't want to see me and he turns to walk away and Rebecca is like bro when did I say I want you out of my life like give me a sec to be fair she does scream and like stumble back when he whips out his fangs to prove to her that he's a vampire but she quickly recovers and is like listen you're my brother we'll figure this out we'll figure mom out but like I'm here for you I love you and I'll always love you and that's like exactly what Simon needs to hear right now because remember still at the back of his mind he's being told that he's not really he's like The Outsider of this circle and no one's going to love him forever he has like some blood family that still loves him he finally gets a little bit of happiness in this story some more sibling bonding just to truly balance the scale we are driving up to Luke's Cottage Farm in Upstate New York to summon the angel right and Isabelle and Alec are sitting together and they finally just kind of talk about their childhoods Isabelle kind of mentions like her daddy issues with her dad betraying her trust by cheating on her mom and Alec is like yeah well think of all the microaggressions I've had to deal with and he really goes into it like what it's like being out in a community that does not support its gay community members once again like books weren't really talking about this like teenagers dealing with fames not accepting them so in the little like multidim itional apartment things are going down the drain but in the human realm people are like dealing with trauma and getting closer and living their truths flashback to Clary she went to bed as we know Jace just like lets himself into her room and wants to talk and then wants to cuddle and then wants to hook up because what happened in that club did not finish in the way that he thought it was going to so he gets a little more physical with her than they've kind of ever done done before and she immediately is like no way no not into it not with my weird brother and like these memories of having kissed him still like freshen my brain we're not doing this here in my evil father's former apartment okay he ends up getting like kind of frustrated uh which really isn't Jace's usual like he's usually very very respectful about that because again he feels like he doesn't deserve so the fact that he's even allowed to like touch Clary he thinks is like the most amazing thing so he's he's usually very respectful but in this case he's really frustrated and he goes and takes a cold shower he ends up immediately apologizing to her after the shower and he reads out loud until she falls asleep which is lovely then she wakes up a little bit later because she never gets a full night sleep let's learn that right now and she overhears a conversation that Jace is having with Sebastian just outside her door when he comes back in she can tell that Jace is totally different she says that throughout this whole book pretty much he's never really felt like Jace he's almost like hearing a song that she knows but in a different key and now she looks at him this new Jace that just came in and is like what the that's him that's my Jace okay that's the correct key we finally got it and he like falls to his knees in front of the bed and he grabs her hands and he's Whispering really quickly he's like it's me it's me I'm here so even he knows that he hasn't been fully around cuz remember this whole Bond thing he's supposed to not know it's supposed to feel natural to him but however this bond has severed for like however long this is going to last he suddenly is like I haven't been myself and he's like I'm I'm back he says please believe me I have to go I can't talk now but in a few minutes after I leave really quietly go up to my room and hide don't let Sebastian know but I'll tell you everything when I get back famous last words right okay but anyway Jace he's free let's go find out how I don't know why she made that like super dramatic ending of a chapter like I'll be back when wherever he went he was only away for like a couple seconds because they immediately just meet up again in Jace's room and so what it turns out is that Sebastian has been sending Jace out during the day to like get in fights like a lot of what he's doing is dealing with demons because they're doing this whole like whatever whatever it is he is going out and about and he is often getting in physical conflicts and whatever happened today while Clary was taking a nap he injured himself on that Rune which we know is if a rune is scraped or broken in some way bond is also a little bit broken so it's just enough that he has snapped out of the bond until inevitably his skin will heal okay apparently today he got stabbed with a very specific type of dagger that actually takes much longer to heal he so normally if he gets a scrape he's healed really quickly so his kind of Consciousness is just like Zapped back under control really fast but this time he gets like a few more minutes of freedom and the kicker is this particular blade uses Angel blood and for some reason it seems like Sebastian didn't feel it like Sebastian is not aware that he got injured enough that he could be free because if Clary were to just stab Jace at any point in the Rune Sebastian would know right you can't just cut the skin off because Sebastian would obviously be aware so this is like the one time that he's free and it has gone unnoticed says this isn't forever I'm going to be back under that spell again but I need you to know what I'm like and then he just starts crying and this is not a boy that cries okay like he has been taught not to by Mr Valentine over here um but he is just like tears pouring down his face just like I'm so sorry I don't know what to do like I'm I'm actually stuck this is the the first time he's really felt like zero hope tears quickly turn to kisses which quickly turns into their first really really steamy seed I know that I keep saying that but like but now they're like very close to like a really intimate moment and right when it's about to get serious jaay pulls back and he's like hold the phone and his reasoning for this is that he's basically like I'm jealous of myself he says that he hates it when he is with Clary under the spell because it's it's like being behind a glass wall like he knows everything that's happening but like the main part of him the the real part of him isn't fully in control of his actions so he's like it's not really me anytime you're with me I don't feel like it's me and he says like if tonight we were to like really go all the way which he wants to he says what if my Rune heals and I change back under the spell in the process and that like really beautiful moment that he wants to have with Clary is ruined so he's like not tonight not until we really break Break Free of this Bond and also fun fact Jace isn't going to remember anything from when he was free once he gets back under the spell he will have no memories of what real Jace and Clary have talked about like he just kind of blacks out whenever he's free and so then when he's under the spell it's as if those moments of Freedom never happened are you following me so Clary decides like okay let's put that aside don't really want to be kissing somebody right now let me just clean you up you're covered in blood which I feel like she should have dressed before they considered having sex but whatever she starts cleaning up the blood and she's like by the way who did you stab who stabbed you like what was going on and he is just like oh uh you might not know her but you know Sister Magdalen her sister magdalina finished her work finished making the cup Sebastian sent Jace to pick it up and then made him kill her so that nobody else can ever make another cup again basically which was sort of alluded to because when they were in Prague they were talking about how there's this specific really beautiful Clock Tower and the legend behind it is that the King after this clock tower was made blinded the artist because he didn't want him to ever create anything as beautiful as the Clock Tower and so Sebastian was like what a great idea why don't I kill this nun so that she can't make any other holy objects ever again crazy guy okay he's not just crazy he's a dirty liar okay now we're going to get the real truth from Jace Sebastian told Clary that he's using the cup to lure the demons together and kill them all correct when in reality he's going to help revive Lilith because demons never really die they just kind of Sizzle out and then eventually they are reborn so she's sort of like there already but he wants to fully revive her to her full powers and then he will combine Sebastian's blood his own blood and Lilith's blood together using the cup and create a dark neili which is basically what his father had tried to do so we're just back we just have have another Valentine to deal with lucky us also this is when we learn the true Stakes we already knew that if we kill Sebastian we killed Jace right but we didn't really have a reason to fully kill Sebastian yet right like there wasn't there wasn't any time ticking he wasn't really doing much so we thought but now we know like he has the final piece of the puzzle this new Mortal cup and he is going to raise Lilith and take over the world and Destroy in a matter of days potentially so now suddenly we have a deadline and we don't seem in a couple of days it doesn't seem like we're going to get anything that is going to sever this connection and so Jace is like listen Clary you are a great Shadow Hunter your job is to kill demons and protect the world if you want to be a great Shadow Hunter you need to kill me right now we love a love that's doomed to fail part three all is changed it's time to summon an angel they finally get everything set up Simon the last thing he wants to do is just talk to Clary but remember clary's rings have gone missing so they can't communicate he's really freaking out he hasn't heard from her and he's like I'm potentially going to die in a couple seconds so I'd really like to talk to my best friend but it seems like it's not in the cards for our dear Simon Magnus comes up and like Pats him on the shoulder and it's like good luck buddy and Simon realizes it's time for his famous last words he turns to Alec and he says Alec I always liked you better than Jace to Magnus he says Magnus I wish I had the nerve to wear the kind of pants that you do and then he turns to Isabelle he saw the question in her eyes but there seemed nothing he could say in front of Alec or Magnus nothing that would enccompass what he felt so he says bye I guess love of my life Simon Lewis they walk away he raises the spell book and begins to chant back with Jason Clary Jace is still in control of himself so he's like Clary this is the plan he still is able to control the portal remember Clary can't control the door in the apartment but Jace can so Jace is like I'm going to portal us immediately to silent City I'm going to turn myself into the silent brothers and I'm going to give them the Mortal cup and then he won't be able to do his evil Deeds right and Claire does the most batshit thing she could have ever done okay queen of making stupid Split Second decisions this Takes the Cake she listens to what Jay says she thinks hm turn yourself into the silent Brothers you say the silent brothers and the shadow Hunter community at large that has reason to kill you on site because you might be a spy and working with Sebastian no I don't want that to happen what if brother Zachariah Cuts your head off before you even can say anything because that's something she thinks brother Zachariah could do no the right thing to do in this situation is to call Sebastian and tell him that Jace escaped his curse she starts screaming she's like Sebastian get in here Jace escaped his bond and Sebastian like immediately runs in and fixes the Rune and Jace is back under his control before he fully is under the spell he turns to Clary and he's like I don't know if I can ever forgive you for this he's like if he succeeds and raises an army and destroys the world it's going to be my fault and I would rather die than live through that so thanks a lot Clary thanks a lot back up State Simon proves himself to be an incredible Diplomat within minutes he summons the angel and has a nice little chat the angel appears Simon explains what's going down and he's like you know I don't really interfere with Earth stuff and Simon is like yes but Earth stuff is going to interfere with you and what if I promise that this is the absolute last time a shadow Hunter is ever going to bother you and it's kind of also your fault because Angels did bring Jace back to life and threw off the balance so you got to kind of have a little sense of responsibility here angels and when the angel hears like oh you won't bother me ever again sure have a sword because that is the stipulation of the deal is that you will never call on Angels because we're tired of you guys as an added bonus he also gets his Mark of cane taken off of him and this is a bonus for him because the Rune is sort of a blessing and a curse for him so the angel is like listen I promise I won't hurt you right now but give me your mark never dark in my doorstep again how does that sound deal and boom Simon now has the sword of the Ark Angel Michael apparently the word is too magnificent for human ears so you can just call the sword glorious and when he's done he walks back to his team Isabelle runs over huge hug she's like oh my God I thought you died I love you she didn't say I love you in words but like it was there so Simon is just doing real well in the third act okay Larry quickly realizes that the ceremony of the Mortal cup and raising Lilith and then raising an entire demon Army yeah that's taking place tonight which is why Jace wanted to stop everything and go to silent City she thought she had more time to like I don't know come up with some stupid plan no girl she starts running around the apartment trying to find at least Jace's Stell so she can start writing runes or anything but as she's rumaging through Sebastian's room which is where she assumes it would be she finds her fairy rings she like what the puts it on immediately is like Simon Simon are you there gets a hold of Simon downloads all the information to him she's like this is what's going down I need your help now this is where we are luckily Simon is like cool we got the sword we're coming for you don't worry but before they can say anything else Sebastian walks in his room because of course he does he's everywhere and he's like how dare you do you think I actually started to trust you of course not and they start kind of fist fighting and he says this Gem of a line which is he is fighting her and he's like wow you're so tiny before you came to the apartment I would have never thought that you were such a little Spitfire especially when you're in bed pardon all right she rightfully is like what the did you just say and Sebastian Just Smiles he leans in close to her and when he spoke his voice was low and rough everything that marks Jace marks me he said down to your fingernails he was great so every time that they got a little hot and heavy while he was under the curse Sebastian could physically feel all of that so like when they almost went all the way there were like Clary finger marks down Jace's back Sebastian has those marks too he was just like in another room sit with that Clary uses that Rush of adrenaline and disgust and anger to beat the out of Bastion which is very satisfying to read and she ends up actually smashing the fairy ring because he's been using it to talk to the fairy queen cuz they're in some weird Cahoots as we saw from the nightclub with mellor so she smashes that ring she's like I've got nothing else to say to Simon let's hope he figures it out and punches Sebastian so deeply in his stomach that he actually like hurls over and she has just enough time to grab his Stell out of his belt she gets as far in the apartment as where the door is supposed to be if she had powers to open it she's struggling to write a rune on the wall when Sebastian catches up to her he starts yelling at her about how she betrayed him and he's really upset that like she's intimate with Jace for some reason that keeps coming up that like he that's some kind of betrayal and he's also making fun of her cuz he's like haha you didn't even have time to finish your Rune and I caught you so now you're stuck with me blah blah blah and he keeps talking about her relationship with Jace and he's like well you know if you did go all the way anyway he wouldn't have remembered it so I hope you at least had a good time I would have Clary feels bile in her throat and she says like you're my brother how many times do we need to go over this and this is why it's apparently okay okay mhm he's like it's fine it's fine cuz we aren't humans so your weird like DNA rules They Don't Really apply to us and he says anyway just so stupid he's like anyway did you know that Cleopatra married her brother it strengthens the bloodline and he says like you belong to me you don't understand what love is you can still be with Jace if you want to but like you belong to me and he brings his mouth down on hers thought we were done with this no but luckily for us it only lasts about a millisecond because Clary bites down on his lips so hard that it goes all the way through blood is running down his cheeks she she kicks him in the stomach it's a fantastic moment Sebastian starts to fight back and while he's fighting he starts quoting the Bible about like my sister my spouse thou has ravaged my heart like weird no no she is fighting for her life she somehow finds a piece of glass that they must have broken during their fight and she starts like going all stabby and he just kind of stops and laughs and he's like yeah go ahead go ahead girl kill me cuz you'll kill Jace too and she just freezes and that's enough for him to grab her and be like come on we got to clean up we've got big things to do tonight got a demon Army to raise and that's that's that that's that meanwhile team good trying to find a way to help Clary and Jace they end up telling Maurice everything that they know because they need backup and Clary did manage to give them the location of the demon Army raising party and Simon and the Gang are basically like listen you can kill him later but we have 40 minutes to figure this out mace is having a little existential crisis because team good is like we're not going to tell the clave about this we have to go behind the clave's back because the clave wants to kill Jace and Maurice is like yeah but if we go behind the claves back they might kill us her like mother instincts are just not there sometimes she's like oh Jay's I love him like he's my own son but then the second she is possibly going to get in trouble for anything she's like ooh so so she like seems to be on board but barely she's she's Holding On by fingernails Simon calls in the werewolves as reinforcement he gets Maya and Jordan to go find as many werewolves as he possibly can and then Magnus kind of pulls Simon aside and he's like Simon and reader if you didn't already understand the stakes so we have Jace might die or an entire Army might be raised another fun fact to add is that if Jace dies yay Sebastian dies so like kind of evens out if Jace dies a hug huge chunk of Alec will be destroyed because they're parabatai in future books the parabatai bond is much stronger like these guys don't hang out that much in other Cassie Clair books in this world poai are like Inseparable so close we really don't get the scope of it with Jason Alec but like if you lose your poai you are like heartbroken for the rest of your life and it's like debilitating okay so Magnus is like we got to say Jace because like I like the kid he's fine but we have to save Jace because it will kill my boyfriend to lose him so just in case the stakes weren't high enough add that to our list once Clary is dressed and ready to go Sebastian produces a crossbow I don't know why he has like a crossbow to her back and is like marching her out the door they get to the door and he starts to open the portal when there is a massive explosion and Clary starts laughing turns out remember how she was like scrambling to get out the door drew a rune and Sebastian was like haha you didn't finish it he thought she was trying to draw an open Rune but remember a while back when she had this weird vision of a rune that she didn't know what it did she knows what it does now the Rune basically is like if you put it on a door the next time that door opens it will explode how specific but anyway yeah his traveling apartment Days Are Over the portal feature is is broken and as punishment for destroying his door Sebastian is like growling he's like you're going to be the first one to drink from the cup he is so like Mustachio twirling Villain at this point in the book it's not even I guess it is kind of funny but like it's just sad Sebastian we get to the ceremony there's about 40 Shadow Hunters there like remnants of the circle and we waste no time Lilith is back baby we raise her from the dead real fast and she's like perfect thanks Sebastian thanks sord of son um we need a volunteer for the first Sip and of course they're not going to test this Mortal Instrument for the first time on a loyal member of the circle they need someone under duress to take the first sip they pull someone out of the crowd with like a bag over their head and when they take it off it is the last person you would think of it's Luke's sister a Mattis I realized I was pronouncing her name wrong the entire last book book and I don't remember what the correct word is but anyway it's Luke's sister what the heck Clary watches in horror as am mantis is forced to drink from the cup she immediately succumbs to the demon blood and is like a super strong Shadow Hunter Clary is like begging in her mind she's like please amantis like maybe she's just faking it you know like maybe she kept her mouth closed really tight and didn't actually take a sip but as amtis looks at Clary she can just tell amtis is gone Clary is trying to figure out like okay has hit the fan what do I do when of course reinforcements arrive team good the werewolves alen and Helen show up everybody's here Sebastian is a cowardly piece of so he immediately hides behind all of the other Shadow Hunters that are there he desperately tries to get Clary to drink from the cup but no dice she manages to like fight him off and she just jumps into the melee the battle scene is chaotic so here's bullet points it's crazy okay the main goal of this is to stab Sebastian that is the goal Simon is actually holding his own in the battle and luckily he's able to quickly find Clary he gives her the Archangel sword that's what we're going to do right stab Sebastian specifically with this sword when Simon looks at her she's no longer Clary his friend since childhood but a shadow Hunter an avenging angel who belonged with that sword in her hand but before she can get anywhere jaay stops her and he's like you can't do this give me the sword they stare at each other she looks into his golden eyes and she says you know what Jace if you want it here you go and she stabs Jace through the heart he didn't try to jerk away she's now pressed up against him gripping the sword his blood began to spill from the wound in his chest there was a scream a sound of rage and pain and Terror the sound of someone being brutally torn apart but it wasn't Jace Jace didn't make a sound despite everything his face was calm and peaceful he looked down at Clary and his eyes Shone as if he were filled with light and then he began to burn Jace fell to his knees the sword burning a white gold flame fire filled his body like colored water filling a clear glass picture eventually the fire burned out and he collapsed on the stones below him she's like no I won't let the silent Brothers kill you I'll kill you myself what is going on in this girl's mind I love her but unhinged everyone starts gathering around and Clary is now on her knees holding Jace and she's like no no no no no no I thought this through he's not dead she says the sword Burns away anything evil that's that's what the angel Heavenly Fire does she said it burns away anything evil and she truly believes that Jace isn't evil so she's like he's good it just burned away the remnants of Sebastian's curse like it wouldn't hurt Jace and in her mind she just keeps going like come on Jace you're stronger than this like you're good you're good meanwhile everyone else is like where the did Sebastian go these I just I just don't know how we keep losing this man okay Sebastian has once again disappeared her mom and Simon and Alec they just kind of gather around Clary and they're like listen you got to let him go like he's this is it he's already died once strike to like please Clary just let's walk away but then she says wake up Jace Jace Lightwood come back she froze there was movement so tiny it was hardly movement at all so faint you could almost miss it under her fingertips the rhythm of his heart epilogue not the end of the series though guys remember we still have 800 pages and a missing body don't get too comfortable but here's the up Vlog Jace wakes up in the infirmary Isabelle and Alec are waiting for him Alec is super pleased because he can feel through the parbai bond that Jace is back baby he doesn't feel like off like Jace that Alec has been feeling this whole time they were still kind of scared though so that's why Clary hasn't been allowed in the infirmary for like in in case he woke up and was like wanted to go on a killing spree I don't know so they kept Clary away Isabelle informs him that he's been asleep for 2 days and he's going to have a giant ass scar on his chest where his girlfriend stabbed him and Jay says well damn I was relying on the money from that topless underwear modeling gig I had lined up so Jace is back safe to say for better or worse and then Isabelle is like Okay cool so one last thing not a big deal don't freak out but you're kind of glowing now and jaay is like come again and he looks down at his hands and sure enough the boy shimmers there is a Golden Glow emanating from his body Alec is like yeah we think it's like a side effect of being stabbed by an Angel sword and we hope that it fades but like it's a look you're pulling it off man and now we get the bombshell to end all Bombshells because we cannot know peace this little happy ending a sparkly Jace everything's good no never I have to read this because I just it's so much remember that Alec was in cahoots with Camille talking about potentially killing Raphael in order to get Camille to teach Alec how to take away magnus' immortality so that they can grow old together you know that whole thing that was not just some cute side quest okay he never got to like actually finish that deal and talk to her so now that the war is averted he decides like I need to tell her no like we're not doing this I'm not interested in this so he starts heading out to meet Camille when he is intercepted by Magnus and he's like yeah I heard it all like I understand like I know what you were talking with Camille about and Magnus is like and what pisses me off Alec honestly is that this whole time he's been looking for a specific spell book he's been looking for this thing called The Book of white and that book has a spell that would turn him mortal Magnus was like I was ready to grow old with you and die and like give it all up for you but knowing that you would go behind my back and potentially make that decision for me I don't think that our love is as strong as I thought it was like I don't even know you you know Alec is about to explain himself when Magnus Cuts him off and says Alec I love you but I can't be a part of this anymore and if I might offer you a piece of advice avoid Camille there's a war coming and you don't want your loyalties to be in question do you he turns and walks away his hands in his pockets walking slowly as if he were injured a not just from the cut at his side they broke up and Magnus is really hurt by it but he's just like I can't take this anymore like I'm just I can't so he disappears into the night but then because why would Alec listen to a word that his ex-boyfriend told him he immediately goes to find Camille to be like oh you up girl like you screwed my entire life over how dare you but instead of finding Camille he finds morine he's like hey little girl uh I need to find Camille and Morin kind of giggles and she's like ooh tough luck she's dead and Alec is like who who killed her and Moren Giggles again she's like oh me Clary comes to the Institute because the silent Brothers aren't like still aren't letting her see Jace because they want to run experiments on him to see like why the is he glowing though like she ends up running into Isabelle and they have a cute little conversation in which Clary is like listen Isabelle I don't want to step on any toes but you need to tell Simon that you like him because he never will you are so out of his League that he will never think that he's good enough for you and he will never be the first one to express his feelings okay so if you want him to reciprocate any of those feelings you need to be real straight with him and also remember Isabelle in the first book was like one of the people who voted to like keep Simon in Rat form permanently so clary's like yeah you should really like clear up where you stand and then we get the big reunion we have been waiting for Jace is Moody reading in his hospital bed because what else would he be doing and Clary starts off strong she basically walks in and she's like hey sorry I stabbed you jaay puts his book down and looks really confused he's like wait you're here to apologize to me he's like Clary you saved my life and maybe the world and Clary is like no but I think you missed the part like what doing that yeah I stabbed you I stabbed you through the heart with a massive sword and you caught on fire jayon is like okay so maybe our problems aren't quite the same as like a normal couple but don't apologize for what you did he said you also brought me back to life he said I heard you screaming like I ran towards your voice he says how can I possibly be angry with you I fell in love with you because you're the bravest person I've ever known how could I ask you to stop being brave just because I loved you and then when Clary Le in to kiss him he's like hold on I wasn't done so that Heavenly Fire stuff that burned all of the baddy bad stuff out of him hasn't fully left his body so people who touch him still get burned it's unclear this is not described well okay so just stay with me I think it's that his hands can't touch anyone it's unclear because clearly Clary can touch him because she grabs his cheek and leans in and he goes we're going to rip sebas into pieces and they make out Clary felt a spark that was quote not painful more like static electricity passed between them but Jace quickly Drew away and he's like that's enough we need to work on that our final scene we head to the library to see Maurice Lightwood she's talking to brother Zachariah and he's like I assume that you want updates on the son that you love but won't risk your life for and he's basically like yeah we don't know what to do but we're working on it we don't know why he's glowing or why he burns people that he touches but on our to-do list don't worry Maurice and Maurice is sort of like oh don't worry about it I pretended to care about Jay for 300 Pages kind of at my limit update me when you can not a big deal I have something else to show you I hate this woman so much she removes the rug in the middle of the library she like pulls it back which brother Zachariah has now realized was strangely lumpy a lumpy rug because underneath it there's a pair of angel wings clearly sliced from the back of an Angel and on top of the Wings is a note written simply I'm coming signed Jonathan Christopher Morgan Stern so my dear friends the story continues we still have 724 pages left to read I will be summarizing it we will finish this we will get through this together I promise but yeah so that's what happened slippery little guy this Sebastian he's always running out when we think we caught him so yeah who knows I don't remember like we're we are now departing fully from like anything that's in my memory so I have no idea what's coming for us in the next book I'm quite excited uh and scared so that will be coming up hopefully somewhat soon I have travel and stuff going on but it will not be another eight months I promise so thank you for sitting with me for all of this you are truly God strongest Warriors and I will leave you here once again because you clearly enjoy audio content uh I want to give a huge thanks to listening. 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we remember correctly he is sitting in a diner and he is having a rough time of it also he has like completely changed his style um he is apparently wearing like $300 boots where does a teenage vampire get his money unclear so now he's like very hot and dressed expensively okay just to keep in the back of your mind things that were stolen from us when the movie series didn't continue okay Simon's having a rough time of it because recently he's been maybe sort of kind of dating Isabelle Isabelle Lightwood as we remember Shadow Hunter hottie only dates bad boys that she can't have originally hated Simon because he was like nerd annoying boy oh how things change he's kind of sort of dating Isabelle which isn't his biggest problem it's one of them but his biggest problem is that he's not just dating Isabelle he's kind of maybe sort of also dating Maya Maya the wherewolf Maya who's just like a chill girl throughout the series let it be known Maya cool girl okay they have always kind of had a connection when they met because they kind of both feel like Outsiders they neither of them wanted to be what they are was changed by force and he was turned into a rat and then changed into a vampire they really connected on that level Isabelle's hot that's how that works they just sort of naturally fell into dating and Simon just didn't know how to tell either of them like I'm kind of also doing this with another girl to be fair he's terrified of Isabelle and he genuinely likes Maya as a friend so he doesn't want to screw up that relationship he has as well so he asks Clary one day like hey what do I do I'm dating two girls and Clary is just like the Simon how dare you figure it out she's like I can't tell you what to do she's also scared of Isabelle but clary's like I have my own to worry about figure it out I don't want to see you dead okay cuz these girls can definitely kill Simon so that's where we're at and before you guys are like why can't they just all be together um continue with Cassandra cla's work you will see that she dives into polyamory spoiler not in this series okay but the issue is finally coming to a head because clary's Mom Joselyn is finally getting married to Luke they are having a wedding Simon needs a date to said wedding they're both invited mess okay so we need to figure this out fast but Simon is sort of like at the very least at least we haven't like become official with either of them right we're just casually dating no feelings right it's going to be fine as he's sitting there drinking coffee these two weird looking guys approach him and they're like hey we're from the NYC clan of vampires and we need to talk to you why don't you come with us that's when Isabelle pops up and she's like yeah you can get back now you can go away because they're clearly like intimidating poor little Simon the creepy vampire guys are like oh what are you his bodyguard and Isabelle says no I'm not his bodyguard I'm his girlfriend o so apparently she thinks it's more official than Simon did and to be fair Simon thinks that a girl like her would never date him so he was like oh for sure Isabelle doesn't think this is serious he's Simon is watching this unfold and he's just like how did I get here like flashback to a couple of months ago he would never have thought like he's more shocked by the fact that a very hot girl is his girlfriend than the fact that these like vampire thugs are threatening him in a coffee shop like how did this become my reality but to make a long story short he agrees to go with the scary vampire people because he's like listen I want to talk to Raphael anyway let's just like nip this in the bud I will come with you okay cuz remember he is a daylighter so because he drank Jace's blood and Jace was this kind of experiment that included Angel blood you remember this when Simon was in trouble Jace let him drink from him and so now he is a vampire that also has Angel blood in him so he can walk around in the day which is crazy and the vampires want him like it's unclear what they want him for but like he's an important Vamp okay so he's like fine let's go talk to Raphael but once he gets to the meeting place it is not Raphael that is there who is it Camille C is the original head of the New York City vampires but she's been away and so Raphael has taken her place and she tells him that Raphael while she's been away has actually been framing her for all of these murders because there's been a lot of like humans getting killed by vampires I guess and so Camille is like yeah he's been framing me so that he can oust me and all of this stuff I need your help we need to fix this and why is she coming to Simon for help you might be asking because not only is he the daylighter but he also has the mark of can on him so remember Clary came up with a rune that is basically The Mark of Cain which means that anything that happens to Simon gets bounced back to that person Sevenfold So if someone were to flick him on the forehead they would get seven flicks on the forehead nobody wants to hurt Simon nobody can touch him he's an Untouchable little angel vampire he's the most interesting character I think I know why anyway Simon my love so Camille is like listen help me overthrow Raphael you're the only person that Raphael is lowkey scared of you will be welcomed with open arms into the vampire Community Happy Days and Simon is sort of like I'm not really interested in being a part of the vampire Community to be fair like you guys changed me against my will made me into a rat which was a really horrible time for me I've got my own friends right we don't really need to be anything more than colleagues okay Camille Camille Just Smiles and says you think that now but remember you are Immortal and in 80 years when all of your friends are dead you're going to wish that you had some people around you that understood you so you have 5 days to give me your answer now we are heading to the training room at the shadow Hunter Institute where Clary is jumping from the banisters doing cool shadow Hunter okay she is fully leaning in to this badass Warrior aesthetic when none other than Jace walks in Jace in case you need an update on our Golden Boy his hair has now darkened now that it's no longer summer to this like Rich gold Clary is quote absurdly happy that she's known him long enough to notice small changes in his appearance and I'm also assuming she is happy that he is not her brother and this is where we learned something really important Clary and Jace have not told anyone what happened at Lake Lynn so basically the end of our previous book where jaay died full stop jaay dead but Clary talked to the angel and she kind of had like one wish you know and she used that to bring Jace back to life no one knows that Jace died everyone knows that like okay yay where'd he go they like stopped Valentine's evil plan but none of the I would say key details of what went down before we can get any romance finally now that the brother thing is done Isabelle busts in the room and is like we just found a horribly disfigured and dead Shadow Hunter and a dumpster in Brooklyn never any peace in this world Clary runs off to change into her normal clothes because there's going to be a meeting now because of the Dead Shadow Hunter and she needs to get home so she's gone for a second comes back Jace and Isabelle are talking about the date that Isabelle just went on with Simon and this is where we get another look into just how wonderful the world would have been if this was a Simon in Jace romance where Jace is like wow he took you to an actual restaurant I would have thought his idea of a date was making you watch him play World of Warcraft with his little nerd friends and Clary is just like I am in fact one of his nerd friends FYI Isabelle kind of turns and looks at Clary and she just turns back to Jason is like yeah well you know it's nothing serious like we're just playing around she's now telling the gang like I don't care this is just frivolous stuff okay to which Clary is like oh so like you guys aren't exclusive like this isn't a thing and Isabelle says no so keep that in mind okay cuz remember Clary knows about Maya and she was expecting Simon today to tell her about this whole thing and so now Isabelle is like it's fine nothing serious we are exclusive okay you see how this is already messy anyway Clary has to get home because it's late and her mom has made a very clear rule that there are no sleepovers anywhere near where her boyfriend lives okay so Clary has to always be home to sleep boyfriend it was still a shock hearing the word for so long it had seemed a total impossibility that Jace would ever be her boyfriend that they could ever be anything to each other at all but brother and sister that had been too hard and horrible to face all right so they have like a 10-second makeout session in The Institute elevator as Jace brings her to the front door and then Jay gets all weird and like trembly he's very shaky during this book and so he's very much like ooh um I love you he says more than ever God more than I probably should you know that don't you and then before she can say anything to that confession he closes the door and disappears so never fear our emo King God I love you more than I should G he lives on in case you're wondering about our other couple who I haven't mentioned yet Alec and Magnus are off traveling the world and the only contact we have with Alec is that he sends Jace postcards from everywhere they go saying basically like wish you were here but not really fast forward to a couple of hours later and Joselyn and Luke are so busy with wedding planning that they don't notice Clary sneaks out and returns to the Institute this girl goes back and forth between Brooklyn and Manhattan so damn much she's back at The Institute she walks into Jace's room he's sprawled on the bed covered in Moonlight and letters written by his birth father okay he's questioning his existence where else would he be basically Clary was not happy leaving that kiss in the elevator and that sudden love conf confession where it was so she walked into the room and he kind of clears off space in the bed he puts the letters back in this box that he has and then out of the box he grabs a dagger and when Clary sits down on the bed he raises it high and brings it down Jace jerks awake emo King still having nightmares constantly okay every single time he closes his eyes he's killing Clary apparently the first few times he had these nightmares where he killed Clary he woke up and Ved vomited because yeah scary so now he like doesn't eat especially not like hours before going to sleep because he's like well I'm just going to throw it up anyway like he knows what's happening so now he just has spasms of sickness and fever he curls up into a ball gasping and dry heaving until it passes so our boy Jace is having a rough time of it but this kind of just confirms a fear that he has always had which is that he is Valentine remember we found out that Valentine is not his birth father but Jace doesn't know his birth father and he was raised mostly by Valentine that's all of his memories of childhood so he just consistently in the back of his mind is like what if I am this like rotten scab that Valentine made and what if I could easily turn into an evil person and kill Clary he just like doesn't feel safe in his own head basically while Jace is dealing with this inner battle let's flash back to Simon who is also having a horrible time he is walking home where he inexp gets mugged and remember he has this Mark of The Wanderer Mark of Cain so everything that happens to him right he is about to get stabbed right before the knife hit him the mugger was thrown back by an incredible force and cut up and killed by his own knife yikes Simon obviously freaked out by this covered in blood runs home his mom is at the door like whoa Simon you are covered in blood talk to me because Simon has been incredibly distant he stays up in his room he doesn't have to eat anymore so remember he's had to like throw his dinner out his window and like that's been months so I mean the food trash outside of his window is probably horrific right but regardless of how much he's hidden he somehow forgot to hide the blood packets in his mini fridge because his mom found them and she's like you need to talk to me right now like what are you doing with blood in your mini fridge so he's like well I was going to have to do this eventually eventually and he comes clean he's like Mom I'm a vampire to which she obviously doesn't believe him it's much easier for her to believe that he is just in some crazy cult or that he has been possessed by the devil but whatever is going on with him he is no longer her son she starts freaking out and the only thing Simon can think of doing at that moment is using his vampire powers to basically brainwash her into thinking that this whole conversation was a very bad dream and so he leaves his mom kind of with her memory scrambled and walks back out of the house the next day we are in Central Park with Clary and Jace they're having a cute little picnic Jace is like you know what why don't I train you in my tie and so they're about to start doing some martial arts training when who pops up but the cely queen never a dull day in Central Park cuz remember this is like the gateway to Fay territory so the cely Queen the last time we saw her she was asking Clary to pull a few strings put in a good word for mellor to get on the council that the shadow Hunters were making with the down worlders and Clary was like h no I've got everything I could ever want I don't need a favor from you so now it's been a few weeks and it turns out melor got on the council anyway without clary's help so she's kind of like you know no hard feelings right like we all got what we wanted happy day and the cely queen is like whatever uh just came here to say that I found another dead Shadow Hunter on our turf and thought you should know also I have a riddle for you in case this book wasn't already a mess she looks at Clary and says I can see why you love him but did you ever wonder what draws him to you she says the blood of Heaven binds you and blood calls to blood under the skin but blood and love are not the same he is bound to you but does he love you okay so riddle doesn't even rhyme lost points for that one the Cel Queen basically just continues to say in a bunch of different ways like are you sure that he likes you as much as you like him and if he does like you then why and after a few minutes of just being rude she disappears back in Brooklyn Simon is curled up in the garage of one of his bandmates like where they go to practice for this Infamous band that never has the same band name they change it daily he's curled up in the practice room when a guy named Kyle walks in so just recently they had had band practice when this guy named Kyle walks in and he's basically like hey I saw a bunch of Flyers around town that you're looking for a singer can I join he sings a few bars they're like actually sure Clary is at practice and clary's like Kyle's hot so if you guys had a hot lead singer maybe you would actually have some success so they let him join but when he was doing his audition he accidentally left his keys in the practice room so he walks in and sees Simon sleeping on the concrete floor and he's basically just like hey man I know you don't know me and we're going to be band mates but we haven't bonded yet but like I have an apartment and I have an extra room and I would really not sleep well knowing that you are sleeping on a concrete floor like you down and Simon kind of looks at him and notices that Kyle has a bunch of tattoos this is such a great detail he's covered in tattoos and the tattoos all say peace in different languages and so Simon is like he's got to be a good guy it let's go hey roomie and follows Kyle to his apartment and it actually turns out that Kyle is a normal nice dude so far um neither of them are actually super tired so they end up just kind of hanging out at his apartment he gets a call from Maya and Kyle is like so is Maya your girlfriend and Simon's like that's a whole thing and Kyle's like uh okay cuz I thought that redheaded chick was your girlfriend and Simon's like no no no no no clary's just a friend and she has a boyfriend and Simon Says quote she has like the nuclear bomb of boyfriend Simon kind of explains the situation that he's in and this is the first time that we see the kind of golden retriever energy that Kyle is bringing sputter out he's sort of like he gets real serious and he's like Simon you need to tell these girls what's going on you need to figure this out and you need need to treat these women with respect I'm disappointed in you other things that we learn about Kyle other than that he respects women is that uh he is a bike Courier that is his job and he has a strange necklace with a wolfpaw on it and something written in Latin and Simon is just like oh he must be Catholic Simon this is where we get a bunch of little scenes that are kind of stupid number one we have Clary going to try on bridesmaid dresses with her mom Jace randomly walks in and sees her in a bridesmaid dress and is like you're so beautiful it's really intense which Joselyn hates by the way she does not like how in love they are she's like this is not not healthy and then he kind of immediately just like shutters and walks away like why was he there even like how did you find Clary what's going on Luke is kind of like don't worry Clary that was super weird weird but like weddings make guys nervous or something but this is where we know that Clary knows that jce is acting really weird around her like he'll get super intense and then it'll just be like cold and other people are noticing too where did Jace Moody run away to he swoops in and saves the day because Simon is mugged again again and this is where I mean it's not a random mugging okay clearly someone is targeting him Jace is able to to snatch him away before any harm befalls him and the muggers because they will be hurt too they run off to Kyle's apartment this poor man has no idea what he has let into his home a bit later we're back at The Institute and Clary is there to talk to Jace to basically be like boy you are acting so dumb let's talk like tell me what's going on why are you doing this but instead of finding Jace she finds Luke is also there and he is there to talk to Maurice which remember this is Isabelle and Alex mom she is head of the New York City Institute Robert the father is still in Idris the shadow Hunter country it's not a huge deal in the book right now but it seems like their relationship is really on the Rocks because they just lost their son remember rest in peace Max Lightwood and so they're dealing with it by being separated right now so Maurice is the only one at the Institute remember how we heard from Isabelle the cely queen about all of these deaths of Shadow Hunters apparently another one occurred it seems like all of the deaths are taking place in different areas so like one Shadow Hunter is killed in Shadow Hunter Brooklyn one is killed in the Fay territory one is left in the wolf territory and they all seem to be former Circle members the working Theory right now is that people are really angry with the Accords that are being written so remember we're trying to make new laws kind of making the separation between Shadow hunters and downworlders is a little bit less severe and people don't like that so it seems like people are killing people I don't it's unclear okay and Clary is listening at the door hearing all of this when she overhears Maurice be like man you it just be so much easier if the dead could talk like we could ask these dead Shadow Hunters who killed them and clar is suddenly like what if the dead could talk so remember Clary has this funky little power where she can create runes that have previously not existed before she can't just think of what she wants and then make it like they have to just kind of come to her and so when Maurice says that all of a sudden Clary is like I know how to wake someone up from the dead like oh my God and so she busts into the room and is like guys you are not going to believe this Maurice is not known for like being able to distinguish a good and bad idea so she's like Clary yes they head off to silent s where they are going to check out these dead bodies this is where we meet brother Zachariah not to be confused with brother Jeremiah rest in peace he lets them into the room where the dead Shadow Hunters are Clary draws her little Rune and for a long moment nothing happened and then with a terrible Sadness the dead Shadow Hunter's eyes flicked open a rattling breath came from the dead man the sound of some someone trying to breathe through a Cut Throat all the shadow Hunter is able to squeak out is Camille so but Clary made a real big misjudgment here because she successfully woke up the shadow Hunter but that also woke him up to the pain of his like injuries that caused him death so he's laying there awake throat slit open screaming in pain and all he can say is Camille because he is dying again so good job spoiler Clary is not the MVP of this book okay back with my boys Simon and Jace they are remember in Kyle's apartment this is the first time they've kind of seen each other in a while I guess and Simon kind of looks at Jason is like man you are not looking good like he looks pale and sweaty and clearly hasn't been sleeping in weeks and jaay is sort of like I just saved your life this is a very weird time to start an insult competition but like if you must know you have the sex appeal of a pain uin that's a lie not true Simon is like even though I don't need to eat I can see when other people are not getting their nutrients so Simon drags Jace to the grocery store to like feed him good things which is so sweet and then when they come back to the apartment Kyle is there Simon is about to be like Kyle meet Jay Jay meet Kyle when Jace just kind of smirks and he's like oh Simon didn't tell me that his roommate was a werewolf who could have seen that coming who this boy with a necklace with a wolf paw on it I'm blindsided anyway during the introductions Kyle makes the mistake of calling Clary cute cuz he's like oh you're a shadow Hunter like that cute redhe head he barely survived Jace like lunges but luckily Simon is there to be like w don't tread there nuclear bomb of a boyfriend remember what I said but anyway the reason that we didn't know about Kyle being a werewolf is because he's not part of Luke's pack he is part of something called the pror lupus which is basically like the guardian pack they are kind of werewolf police officers and they basically help any like newly made downworlder so like a new werewolf or a new vampire they watch over them and like make sure they don't up okay while they are getting used to their powers and so Kyle was assigned to Simon it's kind of like the Big Brother program okay Kyle's looking out for a little baby vampire Simon Jace is immediately like well good news for you you can leave because Simon is my Downer I protect him he actually says he's my downworlder to Mock and boss around not yours but they end up kind of bonding over this shared protection of Simon because they both want to know who's trying to kill him so they end up leaving on good terms and Kyle's like well it was nice meeting you you're the first Shadow Hunter I've really ever talked to and Jay says that's too bad since all the ones you'll meet from now on will be a terrible let down let's go back to Clary so there is actually a scene that I didn't mention but they were watching like Shadow Hunter TV news I don't know how better to describe this but essentially her and Joselyn saw that this nearby hospital where Joselyn was being treated remember when she was in her coma there was news from this hospital that somebody abandoned a magical baby there and there was a strange note asking the hospital to please euthanize my baby because it's evil so Joselyn was really upset by this news story so she actually calls the hospital for personal updates it turns out that the baby has already died of mysterious circumstances Joselyn is sort of like I think I know what's going on can I come down and like check this out and the nurse is basically like yeah come on down it's a very strange situation but basically Joselyn starts heading off to the hospital and Clary is like Mom I'm not like letting you go alone like this is very reminiscent of her experience with Sebastian remember that her mom felt like a horrible mother because as she was pregnant and then as she gave birth she hated this child she was scared of Sebastian quick refresher Sebastian clary's brother was a product of Valentine's experiments and he mostly has demon blood in him he's evil to the core and Jocelyn could feel that so she's sort of like damn somebody just like abandoned their their evil baby and asked people to kill him sounds like me man been there so off they head together to the hospital to check this out and sure enough when they get to the hospital and they look at this baby it seems very clear that it has been somehow touched by demon magic um it's unclear whether this child is a half demon or what but there is definitely demon stuff going on with the baby and in this book we get large swaths of time where Jace Kyle and Simon are together playing video games and hanging out making plans to save the world which is not a good idea because three teenage boys with weird Supernatural powers and not fully formed brains getting together and figuring out how to save the world we already know where this is going so their big plan for finding out who is trying to kill Simon is to set up a trap and use Simon as bait what could possibly go wrong this trap is going to occur at Simon 's next band's gig at this little shindig in Brooklyn whatever they're going to have Simon get up on stage and then Jace is going to lurk around and hopefully capture whoever is trying to kill his little down worlder we immediately jump to the gig Simon is getting up on stage Jace is like break a leg hopefully I'll be down in the audience breaking someone else's in case we need more drama Clary shows up to the gig un announced she's a good friend so like why did we not expect her to show up at the gig but she's here so rutro Jace didn't know that she was going to be here and so when she starts walking through the crowd towards him the surprise shows on his face and Clary is basically like are you ever going to talk to me again like this is getting ridiculous you are just scurrying away whenever I see you it's really weird and Jay says I can't talk to you I can't be with you I can't even look at you and before he can be like uh I mean that's not really what I meant understandably runs away he's literally like I can't even look at you he means because it's painful for him because of the nightmares but he's like really didn't start that story off well but by the time he tries to explain himself Clary is gone on stage Simon is struggling with an intense burst of hunger for blood he has been trying the Cullen diet where he has only been drinking animal blood and that's just not cutting it apparently normally he his hunger is under control but just suddenly it's like an uncontrollable rush so he Jets off stage to try and like not look at this crowd of humans around him and he runs into Moren Moren is the cousin of one of his bandmates or like a friend of a cousin of one of his bandmates like basically just this young pre-teen who thinks that like boys and shitty bands are cool so she's like very excited to be backstage and like watch it she is in the worst place at the worst time and Simon has no control and just sinks his teeth into morine quote Simon didn't even notice when she went limp her dead weight dragging him to the floor his hands gripping her shoulder clenching and unclenching as he drank we cut to a scene of Jace running after Clary into a back alley it's pouring rain it's dark it's Brooklyn and he explains that like he can't talk to her because he just loves her too much and so they have this hot and heavy make out session in this groy rainy alley behind a Brooklyn concert venue when Isabelle once again interrupts them she knocks over trash can she's like did not mean to walk in on that yuck um but I'm looking for Simon because he just ran off stage and disappeared I thought he was back here remember that Jace this whole thing is to protect Simon because people are trying to kill Simon Kyle is the first one to find Simon and luckily Simon has left morine still alive but Kyle is basically like you need to get the out of here I will take care of this leave Simon is feeling horrified by what he did understandably he's looking at Morin like holy but he also feels really wonderful because he just drank human blood and he's been like slowly dying literally for months drinking his ant animal blood right he feels more alive than he has felt in a long time and that sucks because life is about to hit him in the face Isabelle runs in she's like oh my God Simon I was so worried about you and grabs him into this huge hug who follows her Maya walks in oh it's juicy Maya's like oh I know you said you were busy but I saw the flyer to this show and I thought I would come and support you what's going on what are you doing girl hugging my boyfriend they put it together real quick like exact same time the girls very rationally I think tell Simon that what he did is really really shitty and Simon is like I know I know but I just didn't want to hurt either of you so I thought it better to just not tell you and the second he says it out loud he's just like I am an they're remarkably chill and they're basically like yeah you let's talk about this later when like there's not a almost dead young girl on the floor um but not chill man not chill Kyle walks back into the scene after he had like taken Moren somewhere safe and all the blood drains from Maya's face Kyle was staring at Maya with the look of someone who had woken up from a nightmare only to discover that it is real and continuing his mouth moved shaping words but no sound came out Maya whispered Jordan and lunged for Kyle claws out and sharp and sank them into his throat Simon is back at the apartment with Kyle luckily Isabelle jumped in at the last second to stop Maya from killing him most everyone who was there seems very confused by what happened but not Simon Simon knows who this man is go way back to when Maya told us the story of how she became a werewolf she had a boyfriend that things got kind of weird ended funny the next time she sees him he attacks her changes her into a werewolf and then just like leaves her for dead that is this man Jordan not Kyle how lucky he is to have a last name that's also a first name but yeah this is now Jordan okay and when Simon is like hey like I know what you did to Maya he doesn't even try to hide it he's like oh yeah I know Maya had every right to kill me just then she was 100% in the right you know and Jordan is like can I ask you why you even came back with me why did you even ask for my side of the story and Simon is like honestly yesterday I wouldn't have because I know what you did to Maya but I just almost killed a little girl and I would like to think that I'm not a monster he's like listen from the day that I met you you've been a good guy you've never even gotten angry except for when I was hurting Maya so I'm wondering if there's a chance that I'm not evil too what what if we aren't all our worst deed this is when we learn that the reason Jordan is even in the prer lupus the wolf Guardian crew is he felt like that's his way to atone for what he did to Maya it gave him a reason to keep on living and he felt like he was doing some kind of good in the world and so now all three of our boys believe that they are monsters and are searching for ways to atone for that and when we get Jordan's side of the story it turns out that he was actually recently changed into a werewolf too and sort of like Simon's sudden blood lust werewolves have trouble controlling themselves that's why the Prader lupus exists is to help these young downworlders and the time that he saw Maya he ran into her unexpectedly at a party that was the first night that he ever changed as a werewolf and he had no idea what was happening after he attacked Maya he ran off because he was not in his right mind and the next day when he came to talked to her he was stopped by two guardians from the Prader lupus and they were basically like you bit a human you either go to jail for the rest of your life or you join us and serve time as a guardian and they're also like don't worry about Maya she's got her own Guardian assigned to her like forget about her you're never going to see her again basically and it turns out that Jordan actually picked Simon as a person to guard because he saw Maya mentioned in his notes and he was like I just I just need to know if she's okay like I just wanted to be close to her with this chance that I could apologize and well he met her we saw how that went cut to Clary we're still in this weird demon baby Arc of the story okay Jocelyn and Clary are back from the hospital Clary managed to grab a little piece of the baby blanket that wrapped this demon baby as she's kind of playing with the fabric she realizes that there is a rune not one of her special magical runes but one that already exists where you can essentially draw it on the fabric or the object and it will tell you the last location that it was at or like where the magic came from it's a locating charm okay she uses it and what comes to her is an address for Church of talto it is at uh 232 Riverside Drive Clary does not tell her mom because her mom is traumatized by demon baby stuff okay Luke is busy doing something we don't know so she sends out a text message of the address and is like please come as soon as you can whoever she texts is like okay she grabs a few weapons and jets off into the night the plot's about to get crazy so I apologize that we're going to be bouncing back and forth but this is how Cassie intended the story to be told so I will honor it back with Simon Simon and Jordan are like mid conversation that we were just having no time has passed there was a note shoved under their front door in in child block letters on this piece of paper it says Simon Lewis we have your girlfriend you must come to 232 Riverside Drive today be there before dark or we will cut her throat question of the century though Simon's like which girlfriend so he calls both Isabelle and Maya both of them are like you so Simon is like they're going to lit my girlfriend's throat who is she so he makes one last call clary's phone rings as she turns the corner on 96th Street to Riverside Drive Simon is like hey girl have you been kidnapped and she's like M no and Simon's like okay cool he doesn't tell her what the note said I feel like if he had said yeah someone said that like they're kidnapping you and taking you to 232 Riverside Drive Clary might have been like huh that's a red flag maybe I should go into this weird abandoned church by myself but of course that doesn't happen so click into the church we go the church abandoned it's dark it's empty the only thing she hears is her footsteps when she sees a bunch of babies I'm not a real fan of babies anyway but these are demon babies she realizes that she has discovered this weird ass demon cult that is basically doing the exact same thing that Valentine was doing experiments on babies to see if they can make a demon version of a shadow Hunter oh no so she very quickly is like I should not be here by myself turns around starts walking to the door of the church when all of these people come out of the shadows and Surround her they are all wearing gray sweatsuits with their hoods up it feels like she has walked into a Kanye West music video she is a poorly trained brand new baby Shadow Hunter okay versus all of these creepy sweatsuit wearing people not good odds the odds get even worse when as she lurches for the door a demon pops out of nowhere and starts chasing her she manages to like jump over the altar she does like this backflip over the Altar and lands like Spider-Man and a part of her is like oh man wish Jace was here to see that that was pretty rad and then she's like Focus girl literal demon chasing you we got to go she manages to get a few stabs into the demon um she's fighting back but of course the demon can heal itself so she is just fighting a losing battle when out of nowhere a silver lasso appears goes around the demon Titans poof the demon is gone Isabelle is standing in the doorway and she's just like damn girl what have you gotten yourself into now I forgot to mention that Maurice and L Luke came up with a plan to approach Camille and that is using Simon because everybody knows that Simon is like the vampire right now so if you want to talk to Raphael if you want to talk to Camille you got to use him as bait okay so they have come up with this plan kind of without asking Simon but surpris like he hasn't had a rough time of it yet let's push him to his limit this poor boy Jace shows up at the apartment Simon is chilling because his friends aren't kidnapped all three of them they're fine they go off to the secret meeting honestly considering how long the action scenes typically are for Cassie Clare this is a pretty short scene basically Simon meets Camille Camille believes that he called this meeting with them because it's now the fifth day and she gave him five days to come up with an answer in terms of if he will help overthrow Raphael right so he shows up and he basically just needs to get her to ad ad MIT to something illegal having human servants or killing somebody anything and when she finally admits to some illegal activity a portal opens all these shadow Hunters bust in and they arrest her easy as that the twist in the scene though because of course this couldn't be easy The Twist is she agrees to be taken to the shadow Hunter dungeon whatever but the only person she's going to talk to if you want any information out of me the only person I'm going to talk to is Magnus Bane and thank God because we've been missing Magnus okay he's coming back to talk to Camille one thing that we get out of this scene that is very important is that while they were planning this while they were arresting Camille Marice mother of the year is saying really horrible things about downworlders even though the shadow Hunters are allegedly working on a peace treaty and like yeah we're all equal well um Maurice does not believe that okay she says a lot of about how vampires are evil and that just kind of keeps replaying in Simon's head especially because remember what Camille said that he's Immortal and that in 80 or something years he's going to be all alone and even if he thinks that he's friends with the shadow Hunters he's not like them he'll never fully be accepted he's all alone okay and Maurice just kind of really set those negative thoughts Ablaze in Simon's head Simon and Jace are still hanging out in the Institute after they brought Camille back to the dungeon and Isabelle walks in and is like oh man just got back from saving Clary from a Hydra demon and Jace is like a what Isabelle was like chill out man she's in the infirmary she's okay and before she can even finish that sentence Jace is out Jes is running to see his girl which of course leaves Simon and Isabelle alone Simon quaking in his boots and Isabelle just basically looks at Jace's quickly disappearing figure and is like man they need to get their together and turns to Simon and is like we need to get our together I will not be like those two clowns we need to communicate we need to be the one healthy relationship in this book Simon tells her his side of the story which we know now it's time to hear Isabelle's she basically explains to us that she does not understand how Jace and Alec can fall so head over heels in love and also like she doesn't trust people she lets us know that she grew up knowing that her dad cheated on her mom and they almost broke up basically Maurice was the one who really wanted to join the circle which tracks because she's a hateful person and Robert just kind of went along with it so then when everything exploded Robert blamed Maurice right for dragging him into this horrible situation but at that point they already had Alex so they were like we're going to stay together for the kids let's make this work after they had Isabelle her dad started a relationship with another woman Maurice sits Isabelle down as a kid okay again mother of the year Maurice is like okay just so you know Daddy is planning on leaving the family to go be with this other woman and Maurice literally was like just so you know girly you can't trust men but then Maurice finds out she's pregnant with Max and he stays so Alec never knew this like Isabelle just grew up holding this guilt and this like lack of trust and this just instability in her life all by herself and she's 13 obviously that affects her relationships okay and she's never told anyone this except for Simon just now and Simon is like honestly I can see it in the way that you date like you always date people who could never be serious about you back you know Simon is like I genuinely cared about you I will always care about you I want you to know that like this didn't happen because I didn't take you seriously I'm just kind of a up and basically they talk it out they leave as friends okay they've come to an understanding now let's go visit the couple that doesn't communicate Clary and Jace were in the hospital infirmary the second Clary like opens her eyes Jace goes in for a kiss and Clary is like okay can we like not substitute talking with kissing like we only kiss I need to hear you speak words all right go he starts off strong blaming her um he's kind of pissed that she texted Isabelle for backup instead of him and Clary is like honestly I didn't know if I could count on you to show up you are so hot and cold you show up at weird times and just disappear or you shut me out I don't trust you to have my back anymore Isabelle is a girl's girl honestly Isabelle is kind of the MVP of this book spoiler I texted her and here I am safe and sound she's basically like tell me what's going on or get the out of this room he admits that he needs some help and that you know the war everything that happened in Idris Max Etc is weighing quite heavily on him so he promises that he will get help and try to get better and Clary decides that's enough and so they can go back to kissing now okay we get two and a half pages of kissing when all of a sudden there's a flash of silver in the darkness something cold and sharp cuts across clar's arm this is when Jace launches himself across the bed away from her Clary looks from her bleeding arm to Jace to the knife in his hand back downstairs with Camille Simon is there and Magnus and Alec have arrived remember she only wanted to talk to Magnus Once Upon a Time and this was a very long time ago because remember Magnus is Immortal okay about 130 years ago they were an item yes Magnus dated Camille and Alec I just don't know how he didn't think of this but like he's dating a man who is hundreds of years old and he like didn't consider the fact that Magnus had other relationships and Alec just kind of loses his and he's like I got to go I can't be here this is really weird I'm going to go find Isabelle and he leaves okay Simon also leaves he's like this is awkward but as he's leaving he's like I'm Immortal too he's really like understanding that like holy I'm going to watch all my friends die and the only people I'm going to be able to relate to are other Immortal people who I don't really gel with this is a shitty shitty book for Simon he's having a bad time the only thing that we learned from Camille is that yes she was behind the shadow Hunter deaths that we've been talking about in this book however she was ordered by a higher power to do it and she's like not going to lie I enjoyed it hate Shadow Hunters especially the shitty ones that were in the circle but I was doing it under orders okay and she tells Magnus this under the oath that he will fight for her immunity so that she doesn't get killed because that's definitely what the shadow Hunters would do to her so she waits in the dungeon but Simon isn't the only one having a shitty time let's go back to Jace with the knife in his hand okay he comes clean to Clary he's still way on the other side of the bed okay but he's like listen here's what's been going on tells her all about the nightmares and that's why he hasn't been around her he's like that's why I can't look at you that's why I can't talk to you because every time I do I'm reminded that every single time I close my eyes I kill you and apparently just now in my awake times I also stab you so what the and Jace again like the reason he didn't really come forward about this is because he thinks this is just natural like he's just got too much evil in him because of Valentine so he's like it is what it is like this is this is who I am Clary okay and Clary is like no Jace I know you this isn't you like you wouldn't be stabbing me for funsies okay because go back to the very first book when Clary was having these weird dreams and visions of the Shadow Hunter world that was like weird remnants of a curse that Magnus put on her to forget her Shadow Hunter memories right dreams are often ways of communicating and could be like spells gone wrong she's like maybe they aren't real nightmares maybe someone is trying to communicate with you this is the first time Clary has seen anything close to Hope on Jace's face in a very long time so they had to silent City because they're like who's going to know about weird dream the silent Brothers the brothers get to work apparently they don't have any going on so they immediately are like Jace sit down let's comb through your beautiful little brain they get right to it and when they start looking at him they notice immediately he has the mark of the angel on him and they kind of look at the two of them and are like how'd that happen talk to any Angels recently Clary so that Secrets out the brothers know that Jace has been killed and brought back to life with the use of an Angel okay brother Zachariah genius okay he immediately knows what's going on he's like listen technically he died and was reborn and so when Shadow Hunters are babies they go through a ritual that marks them with these protective runes to Shield them from any demonic energies but because he was reborn he like needs to do that again right those protective runes are likely gone from him so he's just been walking around Fresh open to disease demons can just come and go as they like into his psyche bad news okay but easy fix we just need to do that ritual the only problem is the ritual requires both the silent brothers and the iron sisters and the sisters kind of hard to get a hold of it's going to take one to two business days best that Jace just stays in silence City and he can come out once he's reborn and blessed and all that Clary is really concerned about this but jce is like no girl this is great news it was just a demon it wasn't me go be free have fun see you in a couple of days thanks so much for believing in me love you he also says if I'm able to not be afraid of being near you anymore I would spend a Thousand Nights in silent City so later girly now that Jason's problem is solved let's pop back to Simon who is in the middle of his tragedy Arc it just gets worse from here Simon back with Jordan Kyle in the apartment he hasn't moved out okay he's like listen we're both up let's hang Simon walks in Jordan is like bad news buddy and slides the newspaper over to Simon it says girl found dead police are pursuing leads in the death of 14-year-old Moren Brown whose body was discovered Sunday night and though no official cause of death has been released the deli owner who found the body says her throat was cut open and Jordan is like yeah didn't um didn't that note tell you that they were going to cut your girlfriend's throat I mean like what are what are the odds you know what are the odds flashback to the show where Moren got bitten okay they were using Simon as a trap so chances are the people who were targeting Simon saw that whole thing go down and maybe misinterpreted it a little bit and kidnapped Moren thinking that she was someone special to Simon Simon curled in on himself wrapping his arms around his chest as if he could make himself small enough to vanish completely Meanwhile we're back in silent City with Jace and Jace goes for a little sleepy sleep and surprise he has a nightmare but it's not the killing Clary nightmare that he's used to he is back in Idris and Max is there rest in peace Max we love Max okay and Max has a message for him Max is basically like hey jce I'm here to help you clary's right the dreams are a message they aren't trying to hurt you they're trying to tell you that you are in fact hurting Clary you still have evil inside of you and you can't be with her until you cut it out of you so he hands him a knife and tells Jace to stab himself and that will do the job Jace decides like okay I'll humor you and he cuts himself with the dream dagger right we're still in this nightmare just to see what happens and a little bit of his blood falls from the cut and immediately Max Dives for the blood and goes a little crazy like his eyes are suddenly totally black there's no white in them Max takes the blood and draws a rune on Jace's chest one that jaay has never seen before and then says something rather chilling and I quote as you have dealt pain so shall you be dealt pain as you have caused grief so shall you feel grief you are mine now Jace Lightwood and then there was blinding Agony and Jay stumbles Into Darkness babe never a break never a break a bunch of quick scenes happen the where wolves are having a kind of pre-wedding party everybody's there except for Jace obviously because he's in a bad place and while Clary is mingling she gets approached by a fairy named Kaye and she's basically like hey the cely queen told me to give you this and it's a tiny little bell and Clary is like no girl I know how fairy gifts work if I accept this it means that I owe you a favor no thank you and Kaylee is like no I I swear to you no strings attached she just wants you to have this and when you realize that you do actually need her ring it and uh we'll help you out so Clary just kind of puts it in her pocket and is like okay that was weird Simon has a moment with Maya again chillest chill girl she's like listen I get it like I know your personality I know you weren't trying to hurt me but you ended up hurting me more than if we would just been honest with me you know she's like I get it really wish that didn't happen but like let's just be friends Simon is kind of like by the way maybe you should extend that Goodwill to Jordan and maybe hear him out and talk to him because you might be surprised by what I heard we also get multiple Magnus and Alec fight scenes because Alec is still not over the fact that Magnus had previous relationships he was not celibate for his like 500 years of life okay but one person who is not supposed to be at the Party Pop Quiz said it literally two seconds ago who shows up who let him out of Silent City brother Zachariah Clary obviously sees him because she's like a weird Jace magnet okay so he heads out to the balcony and she follows him and he as usual is acting really weird he starts asking her questions about like so you really love me right like how much do you love me are you sure you love me he asks her if she would still love him if he was like Sebastian like a demon he knows that he has Angel blood but like what if I had demon blood how would you feel about that then he's like wow this is a really nice wedding party let me segue into talking about Shadow Hunter weddings he brings up the fact that during Shadow Hunter weddings Shadow Hunters Mark each other instead of rings they put runes on each other that binds them together similar to the parabatai Rune okay and Jayce is like would you do that with me like would you have a little Rune like a little promise Rune with me he says I want to Mark you in a way that will bind us together Clary it's just a small Mark but it's permanent are you willing Madam Madam and this is where I remind you that couple tattoos in the midst of a tumultuous young teenage relationship usually not the move okay Clary is like wow that sounds like a horrible idea but also she's been worried for many many months months now that Jace doesn't understand how much she loves him she's like I can't get it through his thick skull that I genuinely love him so much so maybe this is what he needs like maybe he needs me to get a tattoo ma'am a small but permanent ma'am tattoo nuh-uh so she whips out her arm and um well at first it seems lovely he's drawing the Rune so gently but then her nerves tingle with sudden alarm she looks at the Rune and the pattern didn't speak of love and commitment to her because remember girly can read runes right she gets the the feeling okay these runes weren't about love and commitment there was something else there something darker something that spoke of control and submission of loss and darkness so at first clary's like oh Jace is drawing this Rune wrong this isn't right maybe he just has bad handwriting but no Jace knows what he's doing before she can stop him he turns and is like I'm really sorry Clary I do want to be bound to you I would never lie about that she opens her mouth to be like what the are you talking about but no words came the darkness rushed up too fast and the last thing she felt was Jace's arms around her as she fell flashing back to Magnus and Alec they're having a fight again about what else immortality and Alec is just like I don't understand why you can't just make me Immortal like I know how to solve our problem and Alex argument is like is this just a fling to you like because his concept of time is so different from magnus's he's like I'm just going to be a little blip on your map you know like oh remember back in the day when I dated that weird Shadow Hunter what was his name that's Alex's understanding of this conversation of this situation so he's like if you make me Immortal we can be together forever right like is unless you don't want to be together forever like tell me now Magnus starts to explain why he doesn't want Alec to suffer through experiencing immortality when Isabelle shows up always the best timing and Magnus is like oh Isabelle my beautiful lovely wonderful Isabelle can you please go away and Isabelle is like so you don't want me to tell you that Camille just escaped from the dungeon sanctuary and that my mom needs you to come right away and Magnus is like yes I do not want you to tell me that off they go speaking of vampires Simon steps outside for a breath of air after having you know finally tied up all of these girlfriend loose ends or so he thinks because who approaches him comes just walking down the street Moren who is supposed to be dead turns out whoever kidnapped her and cut her throat they were like you can either die or you can become a vampire and she was like yes I am a 14-year-old girl I would love to be a vampire she has been sent by the same people who keep attacking Simon because what they're trying to do is like get him to come to wherever they're trying to kidnap him too okay we haven't figured that out yet so they decide to send Moren last ditch effort let's get this girl to just like ask him to come which I feel like they could have started that way instead of coming at him with knives maybe just be like hey man could we talk he's a pretty reasonable dude but such is life so Moren is like are you coming or what buddy and Simon's reasoning is basically like yeah they already killed someone who they thought I was close to what's going to stop them from killing another one so why don't we just nip this in the bud lead the way Moren Moren leads Simon to a construction site of an apartment complex on the Upper East Side they take the rickety elevator up to the top floor uh when they get to the top floor waiting for Simon is this very old but beautiful woman who has claimed to have walked the paths of the Garden of Eden she claims that she knew Adam before Eve did she claims to have many names but we can call her Lilith how on Earth did I not put her on the board I'm just realizing that now oh my God hold on deepest apologies to Inquisitor imagin I am reusing your photo because it's the only one that I have on hand okay Lilith and uh why does she need to talk to Simon she needs Simon's life blood specifically Simon because he's the daylighter and so Simon's like oh that's weird you're a vampire 2 how strange and Lilith is like no I don't need your blood for me okay she needs it for what's underneath this black cloth and she just goes and reveals the biggest plot twist underneath the cloth is a coffin it's a glass coffin just long and wide enough for a person to lie down inside and inside the coffin is a cloudy liquid and floating in that liquid naked from the waist up his white blonde hair drifting around him like pale seaweed is Sebastian now one thing that I didn't mention to you is that Simon has actually met Lilith before at that gig where this was a whole trap and he ended up accidentally almost killing Moren remember this right before he went on stage a woman approached him and gave him her business card she claimed that she was a band promoter and that Simon should contact her so that she could promote his band and Simon is self-aware and he was like who the would want to promote our band so he just never gave her a call no offense to Simon's band but luckily for him he kept the business card when Isabelle and the Gang realized that Simon is missing from the party they head back to the apartment and just tear his room apart for any kind of clue because they know I mean like regardless of who it is everybody's after Simon Isabelle MVP happens to find the business card and the name on the business card is satrina which is one of the 17 names that Lilith uses Jordan is immediately like damn you memorized all 17 names and just to show off Alec starts listing them he's like yeah it doesn't everybody and he starts listing them and then he gets to a name that sounds even more familiar and it is talto rewind yeah Isabelle's like ooh damn I knew the name of that church sounded weird because remember where she and Clary ran into that Hydra demon and Isabelle saved clary's butt and there was that weird like demon baby making scheme going on that was the Church of talto aka the Church of Lilith aka the Church of the mother of all demons so yes Jordan it is helpful to memorize all 17 names of Lilith okay you never know when it's going to come in handy but right now that business card is their only clue so they decide to head to the address on the business card and try to save their little vampire before it's too late Lilith explains to Simon that she needs his blood because she wants him to turn Sebastian into a vampire so that he can rise again and he's going to start this New Order of demon shadow Hunters so you thought we were done when we got rid of Valentine no ma'am Simon is basically like listen this is not my first rodeo with the weird villain having this secret Eugenics program I'm not into it it's a a little boring at this point I'm going to go I'm just going to head out okay is that fine Lilith is basically like yeah good luck with that Simon uh if you were a true vampire maybe you could walk out of here but you still hold on to your humanity and all those weaknesses like pride and greed and love and so he the true romantic is like you're wrong love isn't a weakness and Lilith just smirks and says isn't it Simon is like oh because he knows when he turns around there's going to be a plot twist and he's like I cannot deal sure enough he turns around and standing there is Jace right in front of him is Clary with a bon handled knife glittering at her throat jaay is completely blank-faced by the way no Sparkle in his eye he's very like robotic zombie Vibes going on as he's like marching Clary forward with the knife to her throat and he says I brought her lady Lilith just like you asked Clary takes in the scene she can put puzzle pieces together okay she knows what's going down she like sees Sebastian sees Lilith bad news okay and tail is Old As Time Lilith can't hurt Simon but she can hurt him by hurting Clary you get it she's like Moren clearly didn't pan out let's try again but clary's like oh don't worry that plan's not going to work out because Jace would never hurt me right right Jace Lilith says hm really draw a little blood wouldn't you darling and without even a hesitation just a little bit of stiffness Jace cuts into her throat Jace is completely under Lilith's power she has been in his dreams combing through his psyche to figure out exactly how to get him under her control and remember that Rune that Max Drew on him in his dream yeah kind of sealed the deal so Jace is also kind of part of this weird plan in a way so he got resurrected by the angel and that kind of messed with the scales of life right the light of the Angels the darkness of the Demons they have one extra angel now and so Lilith is like Bingo that means I get to resurrect a demon also a weird fun fact Lilith is the demon that gave her blood to Valentine to feed to Sebastian so in a up way Lilith is kind of Sebastian's mom and speaking of being the mother of a new race of demons the gang Isabelle Maya Etc they show up at the address they're downstairs they are all seeing the worst thing they have ever seen Maya throws up on the spot and Isabelle is almost right behind her and we we know that this girl has seen some okay so what we see they find an entire room filled with babies upwards of 50 of them that are dead and have demon claws they are mini sebastians at the same time that they are witnessing this upstairs at the top of the construction site Simon is agreeing to work with Lilith he's like I'm not letting you hurt Clary they've been friends since kindergarten he can't remember a time in his life when he didn't love Clary so biting back the urge to be sick he bent and sank his teeth into Sebastian's throat black demon blood poured into his mouth as bitter as poison back downstairs with Isabelle she manages to find a woman who is like wandering around and this is where we find out that Lilith has been basically starting a cult and targeting desperate people people who are currently without homes people who have addictions Etc and promising them strength and you know a bright future because she starts feeding them demon blood and at first they start to feel really strong they all join this Cult of Lilith and then they donate their babies to the cause the only problem is none of those babies survived right we're trying to make a demon baby apparently using Mortals just isn't going to cut it and all the parents are dying too from the poison so as the woman breathes her last breath she lets it slip that a vampire headed upstairs so they got the right address they just entered at ground level so they need to get up to the top floor for Simon ASAP and they don't even know that they also are trying to save Jay and Clary a lot of things start to happen at once this is a classic Cassie Clair action sequence we are at the climax of this novel okay uh the gang heads for the elevator immediately get attacked by the remaining Cult of Lilith members okay so now we got to fight through the crowd Clary is using her beautiful brain because I'm going to rewind a little bit remember when she created that Rune that woke up the shadow hunter from his death and he was in such extreme pain what I didn't mention is that Luke actually poured some like acid or something on the shadow Hunter's skin where she had drawn the Rune so once you kind of ruined the Rune tattoo its powers kind of go away so he put acid on the Rune and the shadow Hunter went back to his death basically so Clary really quickly grabs one of her knives and just stabs Jace where that new Lilith Rune is that's all it takes for Jace to be free of Lilith's mind control so they immediately jump into action Simon hasn't fully finished changing Sebastian yet so Lilith is like it send out the hell hounds meanwhile downstairs Alec fighting his way through the cultists he sudden suddenly recognizes a familiar face there's a woman tied in the corner of the room who is it Camille remember how Camille said that she was only following orders when she was killing those Shadow Hunters it was Lilith and basically because she kind of squealed to Magnus Lilith found out is punishing Camille and Camille is like listen if it comes down to a shadow Hunters versus Lilith Lilith is crazy I really regret working with her so I would join your side Alec could you please untie me please believe me let me go and I will help you guys Alec does start to untie her as he's doing this Isabelle runs into the room and is like we got through we got to go let's get in the elevator as Alec turns back Camille is gone upstairs is chaos because none of them none of these three will leave each other but not all three of them are going to walk out of this room alive today so of course like Jace almost gets killed trying to fight these hell hounds to get Clary to safety he like finally gets her next to the elevator and he's like go Jace turns to Lilith and says you can't hurt Simon and you can't kill me because I'm the tether between the balance right like if Lilith kills Jace then everything is equal and she can't resurrect Sebastian right and Jace thinks that Clary has gotten in the elevator by the way so he's like Checkmate lady what are you going to do you can't hurt us when Clary the one that she can hurt pops out of the shadows and both Simon and jaay are just like read the room girl like please leave but she's just like no I got to protect my boyfriends and when she jumped out of the Shadows Jace's face became a mask of horror he was pale his bravado gone his hands clenched into fists that were white at the knuckles I'll do what you want Lilith just let her go he realizes like clary's not going to listen Lilith is going to grab her we're basically Lilith is about to strike Clary with this like silver wire weapon I don't know bizarre and this is when Simon gets his first taste of how godamn fast vampires actually are before he even realizes it he is standing in front of Clary the long razored silver wire struck him across the face and chest there was a moment of shocking pain and he could hear Clary screaming but then Lilith froze she Drew went a long ragged breath and whispered Sevenfold because of Simon's curse she attacked Clary but accidentally hit Simon that little cut that she gave Simon yeah seven times for a moment she was a mass of burning filaments and then she was salt raining down at Simon's feet with a dreadful sort of beauty she was gone way to go Simon Okay save the day these two power couple let me tell you Clary has passed out uh for reasons I don't know um she wakes up kind of vaguely and all she can hear is Simon going like her pulse is steady but like not steady enough she was quite injured in the fight as well like fighting the hell hounds and everything and Lilith made Jace throw out his and clary's Stell so he can't even draw a healing Rune on her so jaay is like listen you pick her up bring her downstairs and Simon is like not you you don't want to pick her up and Jay is like H I don't think she really wants me to touch her right now and Simon is actually like yeah fair enough at this point Simon realizes that Clary is actually awake and can hear them and she's like no I can walk let's go at the sound of her voice Jace turns around and he's totally cut up and they're not used to seeing each other damaged because a Clary hasn't been in a lot of fights but also they're constantly using healing runes so they don't get visibly injured that much and so seeing like both of them seeing each other like extremely injured is really jarring for them and so Clary is looking at him like holy are you okay and Jace is sort of looking at her very blankly Clary is used to reading his face as if she were reading the pages of a book but she could read nothing on it for a moment his expression kind of cracks and she can see whenever he looks directly at her wounds like where he cut her he gets like really emotional but overall he's trying to keep like no emotions on his face so that's weird keep that in your pocket but turns out Clary can't walk she tries to stand up Simon's helping her and her ankle is broken or something so her and Simon kind of hobble towards the elevator the elevator doors open and as they're about to get on the whole downstairs gang rushes out and they're super surprised because they weren't expecting to see Clary and Jace right they were only here for Simon Simon is kind of like what the are you guys doing here and Isabelle is like we're here for you babe and Clary is like leaning on Simon so she can kind of feel his chest swell he's like what and Isabelle kind of blushes realizing what she said a cute little millisecond okay Alec immediately starts going to heal Clary cuz he has his stele and Isabelle is like Simon why didn't you tell us anything before wandering off you can't just leave following the creepy vampire Child by yourself and Simon is basically like like I didn't want to drag you guys into my problems like this doesn't involve you drag me into your problems Isabelle sputtered you and then to everyone's surprise clearly including her own she flung herself at Simon wrapping her arms around his neck he staggered back unprepared for the assault but recovered quickly enough Clary couldn't quite tell because Isabelle was speaking too softly but it sounded an awful lot like she was swearing at Simon under her breath yeah he's a dumbass upstairs gang gives downstairs gang a rundown of what happened okay Isabelle is like okay so what I'm hearing is that Sebastian is mostly dead but that's not enough for me so she starts heading over to the coffin prepared to cut him into a million pieces and Simon is like well hold on we've got a problem Lilith said that Jace and Sebastian are like creating a balance and that Jace is Sebastian's kind of tether to the world what happens if Sebastian is also Jace's tether like they both have that Rune Clary stabbed uh Jace in the Lilith Rune but his skin can heal so that Rune is going to come back they both have the mark of Lilith on them what if they're connected in more ways than we understand if you cut Sebastian up into a million pieces I think there might be consequences um so they're like let's leave him there and call up the clave the clave who has done nothing okay literally these five team teenagers are carrying the weight of the world and this government has done nothing but sure sure let's leave the Sebastian thing to the clave okay um just for funsies if you're wondering um Maya and Jordan are part of the downstairs team they stayed downstairs and Maya is like overcome with emotion or something and kisses Jordan and then she's like Anyway let's go find the rest of the team and um Jordan is basically just like now that the main crisis has been averted and they're going to call the clave to clean up Sebastian everybody gets ready to leave and gets in the elevator Jace is like listen I kind of want to stay up here for a second and just like have a moment so I'll be right down the elevator doors start closing when Alec just shoves Clary out of the elevator doors the doors cloes and through the window Alec just smirks at her because now they are forced to be alone and they need to talk which clearly neither of them want to but Alex is a little stir and uh we appreciate that about him basically we learned that Jace was aware of himself the whole time like even though he couldn't control his actions it was like he was watching all of this stuff happening which makes it even more traumatic for him and he's basically like confirmed girl we cannot be together like I every time I'm near you I hurt you and I just can't do that anymore so like this just isn't meant to be he says we can't do this Clary I don't deserve you to which Clary is like you what about what I deserve okay I deserve a hot boyfriend and that is you and Jay kind of laughs and he's just like of course I would fall in love with someone who is as stubborn as I am and Clary is like wait hold on could you could you say what what was that that you said again that you you fell in in what with me but he's like no no I I didn't say anything I you know we're done Clary we can't do this anymore but Clary says you know what too bad I love you Jace whan her Andale Lightwood whatever you want to call yourself I don't care I love you and I will always love you and pretending it could be any other way is just a waste of our time and then Jace gets really intense and quotes Dante in Italian which Clary doesn't speak so he's like oh it's the very last verse from Paradiso Dante's Paradise my will and my desire were turned by love the love that moves the sun and the other stars Dante was trying to explain faith and maybe it's Blasphemous but that's how I think of the way that I love you you you came into my life and suddenly I had one truth to hold on to that I loved you and you love me and he could have stopped there that could have been a really cute love confession but he continues he says but then the nightmares started and I realized you don't deserve that pain Clary sees the emo start to Bubble Up so she cuts him right off she's like shut the up for one second okay she's like listen everything that was happening tonight I knew one thing and that was that you would not hurt me the person who was hurting me was not you Jace I have an absolute incontrovertible belief that you are good and that will never change and when he tries to protest Clary is like respectfully babe your opinion doesn't matter she says and I quote you don't have to believe me I have enough faith in you for the both of us his hands slid into her hair and he kissed her familiar and tender and soft this is when the clave finally arrives we get a kind of reunion with all the parents show up and are like wow yay my kids are alive haha some good things we get out of this Simon kind of has a moment with Isabelle and remember this whole book specifically Camille has been feeding him this rhetoric that the shadow Hunters never really respect him they're always going to think he's like this lower dirty vampire but the fact that all of his friends came to rescue just him remember they didn't know that Clary and Jace were there they were only coming to save Simon and that he just like never thinks of himself as a person that's like important enough basically he doesn't have main character energy this like really kind of changes things for him so yay for Simon we get like a shimmer of Happiness which is exciting um Magnus and Alec go off in a corner to make out which good for them Luke also talks to Simon and it's basically like listen I heard that your mom freaked out and uh cuz remember whole book he's been living with Jordan because he's not welcome in his home and he's like listen if you don't want to live with Jordan anymore you can come live with me like remember his sister didn't accept him when he first turned into a werewolf but he's like listen your mom's going to come around it'll be okay but like you have so many people who love you you've got a family until she turns around right which is also nice to hear meanwhile Clary has come down from the rooftop to see her mom and jaay stayed up there um because nobody thinks leaving a half dead Sebastian alone is a good idea so he's just like waiting for the cleave to make their way up to the rooftop he's looking down over the city the East River a black snake slithering between Brooklyn and Manhattan and he's sort of just like playing out what's about to happen in his head he's like first the clave are going to come and they're going to be sympathetic right because I was mind controlled but then they're going to remember whose son I am they'll start to turn on me they'll start to question whether I was really mind controlled and he's especially concerned with how Joselyn like Joselyn already doesn't like him so he's like great Joselyn this is just like another mark on my record for why I'm bad for Clary and as he's thinking about all this he looks down at his hand he realizes he has a knife grasped in his fingers as he tries to put it back in his belt his hand doesn't obey his body doesn't obey he turns against his will towards the pedestal where Sebastian's body lay and you know where this is going so buckle up did you think you were free because Lilith is gone said Sebastian's voice the vampire's bite woke me and now her blood in my veins compels you so come here so yeah basically just like a tricky little loophole even though Lilith isn't here Sebastian has her blood so the Lilith Rune of Mind Control he can use it cool great for Jace J is fighting so hard to not walk towards that coffin that he's literally like biting his own lips and he bites through his lips he's thinking that like maybe the pain will distract his mind and then he'll be free of it no dice against his will Jay's hands begin to rise and words spill from his own lips he heard them as if from an immense distance they were in some other language that he didn't know and he cuts through his own Palm the second the blood hits the water in the coffin Sebastian's eyes fly open they fix on Jace like great dark mirrors eventually there's so much blood in the water that Sebastian moves and sits up water runs off him like tears his pale hair pasted to his forehead seem to have no color at all then as if this isn't already freaky as Hell Sebastian takes the blade and cuts across his own palm and then he does like a little blood packed with Jace which is so icky even if you aren't demons Jace can feel ice beginning to spread in his veins from his hand a shudder passed over him and then he starts to convulse he tries to scream but no sound can come out he's just stuck looking at Sebastian's yucky wet body and still probably looks Dead face okay as blood ran through their intertwined fingers and down their wrists suddenly his mind feels a sense of Peace which probably is not a good thing and then there's a voice in his head that's like this is good Jace this is what your father would have wanted the voice in his head now was a familiar one we're one now little brother you and I Sebastian said we are one and now on to book five city of lost souls our prologue starts off exactly where City of Fallen Angels left off Simon is walking home he's in Brooklyn and after having talked to Luke about like listen your mom is going to come around don't worry he decides to go talk to his mom and he walks in to the apartment and his mom is still fully convinced that whoever this is he is a demon not her son okay so once again he gets violently thrown out of the house then he gets a call from Clary which is weird because they were just together and they're friends but like they have boundaries Clary is like hey um what's up and he's sort of like uh you know the worst night of my life but nothing much and clary's like hey um sorry to bother you but you know how we left Jace upstairs to like help clean up and Simon's like yeah I vaguely vaguely remember that why and clary's like um yeah cuz we funny we just can't find Jace and Simon's sort of like this this isn't the first time we can't find Jace I'm not as worried as you are but like for your sake I hope we find your boyfriend and clary's like yeah I know that's kind of his shtick but what makes me worry is that Sebastian's body is gone too part one no evil angel this takes place 2 weeks later Clary has been going through it so little detail that she didn't tell Simon um when they went upstairs to go find where Jace and Sebastian's body should have been there was a ton of blood like all over the place um and then two missing boys so Clary is freaked out because we still have no trace of where Jace could have been and she's been having to give her testimony over and over and over again to the cave using the Mortal sword remember this is a shadow Hunter sword that if you're holding it you have to tell the truth the clave has been hounding her because they're sort of like look at the Optics they already don't really trust Jace because again he's got this whole like he was raised by an evil villain situation and Sebastian's gone like it seems very like that he's still under Lilith's control and maybe he's just an evil guy so they're basically just having Clary tell the story again and again and again until she cracks and tells the truth and one big issue at the center of this whole story is the secret that Clary and Jace kept remember which is that Jace died and he was raised from the dead by an Angel and that is illegal you are not allowed to perform any kind of magic that involves resuscitating a dead person Clary is in deep but they are currently waiting outside the doors of the kind of courtroom I suppose where the cave is considering what to do about this and Isabelle is basically like Clary calm down you didn't resurrect him the angel did so leave it to her to like find every loophole but she's like just chill out it's going to be fine Jace is okay this whole crew is very sure that Jace is still alive especially Clary she's like I would feel it you know so they are very sure that Jace has just been taken which isn't great either but they are very sure that the boys are not in New York City anymore because they would have found them they're pretty sure so no leads no nothing where are they Alex suddenly pops in and he's like listen great news sort of turns out that there's some weird issue with the wards around the Moscow Institute so priorities have changed we've been using magnus' tracking spells to get any leads on these boys and we've got nothing so the clave is basically deprioritizing it they're like listen this isn't going anywhere we've got demons attacking Moscow and other institutes we got to deal with that so basically they're being kind of put on the back burner Clary included and Alec even though he's like never been quite nice to Clary like he's warmed to her but not a whole lot he's like listen Clary I would know too like I would physically know if my parabatai was dead and he's not dead but something feels Raw actually Alex says there's definitely something fundamentally wrong with him and if Simon were here that would definitely be his joke Alex says I don't know what it is but I've never felt anything like it before the clave are basically like we just need to wait until Sebastian makes a move and until then continue on with normal life so Alec is like listen Clary like he's alive you're not alone we're going to tear the world apart to find him so we got you girl basically um which is quite nice and kind of offbrand honestly for Alec this is when we remember that at the werewolf Party a mysterious Fay gave Clary that little Bell from the cely queen Clary was like I don't do fairy gifts you know and she was kind of like just take it just take it seems like Clary needs some help right she fills Isabelle and Alec in on what this is and she's like I'm going to use it like I think it's really dangerous but also leaving Jace in the hands of a resurrected demon child is also probably not that great so are you in and Alec goes back into his like protective grumpy old brother mode and he says quote the potential for danger is literally unlimited and Jace would kill me if he knew I let you do this and Clary says well Jace understands Jace would do it for me and Alec just looks at her like jaay would literally burn the whole world down and sift through the ashes for you but that doesn't mean it's a good idea but no one ever listens to Alec so ring the bell girl they decide to head out before they like call on the Fay in in the middle of the Institute and as they're walking out a familiar face is in the Institute and it's none other than a Leen go back to a long time ago Alene was allegedly Sebastian's cousin you remember this alen penalo she's just like a vaguely their character she's going to be a vaguely their character in this book as well but Alene is here and she is with her girlfriend Helen her mom is on the council so that's why they came here to do this whole like is clar criminal trial thing this is kind of a random scene and we know that she like doesn't have a filter so she just runs up to Alec and is like thank you so much for making out with your warlock boyfriend in front of everybody because that gave me the courage to tell my parents that I'm gay and everyone's like nice to see you too alen but yeah basically all of the Shadow Hunter parents are homophobic and she knew that and so that's why she never came out cuz remember she was kind of struggling with her sexuality in the previous book she decided after seeing Alec and Jace she was like it talk to her parents her parents are basically just acting like she never told them which sucks but she's like I'm the happiest I've ever been with Helen thank you so much which is sweet I think like say what you want about Cassie CLA but like she really was the only person writing at this scale like a series with this amount of popularity and to write about openly gay characters and their struggles at the time that was pretty rare to see so yay elen glad you're happy and she then shares this cute story about Jace randomly like I think she's trying to cheer up the gang she's she's just a bizarre little character she says whatever's on her mind so she says back when they lived in Idris as kids the lightwoods Isabel Alec and also Jace they were like Playmates with elene and so she remembers one time they were playing in the woods and they got horribly lost Jace was Never Scared even though it took us hours he got us out of that Forest and when we were all thankful he looked confused because of course he'd get us out failing wasn't an option elen says he'll find his way back to you I know it they are interrupted by Helen who comes running back into the room and she's like My Little Brother Jules is destroying your Institute so we got to go like can you help me we got to dip so alen and Helen go rush off to save the world from jueles Blackthorn I wonder if we'll ever see him again so after that conversation they continue on their mission Simon is waiting outside of the institute for them Clary is like don't worry I'm not going to jail they just deprioritized my case and Simon's like damn the cave sucks isn't that their motto Basia kokum and Alec is like it's desens Sno fail EST The Descent to hell is easy you said kiss the cook and Simon's like I knew Jace was screwing with me even when Jace isn't around we get great Jason and Simon content anyway off we go to the fairy Court long story short because this was a long story they get to the fairy Court talk to the Cy queen of course this doesn't come free they need to do something in order for her help finding Jace so the sely queen wants these fairy rings that if you wear them they're sort of like you can talk kind of like the silent Brothers you can telepathically speak if both people are wearing the fairy rings and she believes that they are in the institute on display in the library because the shadow Hunters steal everything from the downworlders and Isabelle is like oh yeah yep I know where it is we can get those for you no problem see you in a sec but as they're leaving the queen always needs to leave us with like a weird riddle she says something to consider as is often happen stance with what which is precious and lost when you find him again he may not be quite as you left him then we get just a lot of kind of character building scenes a lot of fleshing out of these relationships we still have Alec and Magnus struggling with immortality basically as a topic they're tiptoeing around it they're getting better but they're really just avoiding the subject instead of talking about it head on keep that in your back pocket that's going for the entire book we also have Simon and Clary are back to being BFFs Isabelle saw how much Clary is really suffering about this and she's like Simon you need to support her like I as much as I'm a girl's girl we are not that close you need to be there for her so Simon's actually been like sleeping over at her house and just kind of distracting her and being there and it's just a I love their friendship they're good people and then also going on in the background is Simon ends up popping back into the apartment to grab some of his things and Jordan and Maya are there because they're something's up we don't know we don't know what's going on with them but they're both there and they're like Simon thank God you're here your phone is blowing up and it's his sister Rebecca who is away at college so during this whole meltdown with his mom she hasn't been there and she has not been caught up on the whole vampire thing and he's just not ready to have another conversation with a family member that is probably going to disown him so he just he's like Let it go to voicemail I can't I can't even though um these two are really pushing him they're like no she's reaching out like you should try but he's like no not today so that's all going on but we need to go get the fairy rings for the cely queen since we know exactly where they are this isn't going to be necessarily a difficult Heist so Clary decides to go at it alone so she sneaks into the library during an uh clave meeting so the Institute is pretty much deserted and she grabs the Rings score turns and is about to head out when she hears footsteps and a familiar voice you were right Jace it's deserted she looked down at the first floor of the light library and sunlight poured through the Skylight lighting the floor like a spotlight on a stage and there standing directly below her was Jonathan Christopher Morgan Stern AKA Sebastian Alive and Kicking man walking through libraries having conversations he's back baby Jace is there too both of the Jonathan Christopher Sterns are there and they seem to be looking for some kind of summoning book it's unclear but they're talking in a way that like is sort of friendly it's always hard to tell with Jace because Jace is kind of like lovingly mean to the people he loves but this seems like I mean they're talking similar to how him and Simon speak not like their enemies not like he's there under duress not in the way a kidnapped boy speaks to his demon kidnapper right what shocks Clary the most is that this whole time she's been picturing him locked in a dungeon starving not sleeping you know but he looks good like he looks healthier than previously in the past book when he was like freely able to make out with Clary whenever he wanted to but he still looked really upset he looks healthier and happier now but before Clary can do anything about that they vanish Clary immediately finds Alec and Isabelle obviously to catch them up on what happened and Alec is like well he's probably still under Lilith's control control like that's why he went there so easily without a fight and clary's like no I've seen him under Lilith's control he was robotic remember he would always have this like very blank face she's like he was fully in control like that was Jace that I saw Free Will happy but never quite happy sarcastic and full of himself Jace Lightwood Jace whan Jace harale the only thing they can think of is that perhaps Jace is like trying to get on Sebastian's good side like kind of a reverse Stockholm syndrome so that he might be able to find like a weakness in Sebastian's armor and is able to send us a message or something like that but either way they all agree they cannot tell the clave because that could be misconstrued easily as Jace is working with Sebastian like oh look he wasn't fighting Sebastian he was happily walking around the library with him of course they're in cahoots and that gives the clave authority to kill Jace on site because the clave sucks kiss the cook and on top of that Clary forgot to grab the Rings she was so freaked out about this she left the rings in the library so the heist that was like the easiest part of this book um she failed that one so they have to find a way to get the fairy rings back but for the moment she can wait they're basically like we're not going to go to the cely queen for help it's just not going to happen so they decide to Pivot and go to Magnus because of course these children are going to save Jace all by themselves a couple more rapid fire scenes for you okay Clary is at home just like staring at the walls because what the has just happened in this book she comes up with another Rune we don't know what it's going to be used for it looks like an open Rune but different and she's just like I don't know what this does but okay so keep that in your back pocket we also have Maya and Jordan who are patrolling together they're kind of also just like constantly looking for any signs of jce throughout the city and they finally talked to each other about that sudden kiss when Maya like everything was chaotic and she just randomly like jumps on Jordan they clearly still have feelings for each other they have like completely cleared up the kind of misunderstanding and the kind of tragic thing that happened with both of them being turned into werewolves they're definitely like on the same page with that now they just really love each other and Jordan makes the mistake of saying it and Maya bolts it like so obviously comes out on accident he's like yeah I I just I'll Always Love You Maya and she's like that's a little bit of chaos that is like swirling slightly off screen and then finally we have this weird secret meeting with Alex and Camille remember at the very end of the book it was quite chaotic but during the fight scene in the church Alec discovered Camille and helped untie her and she kind of said something I didn't really mentioned it at the time but she said something about like let's chat about immortality when you get the chance you know if you're curious let's talk and of course Alec is curious because this whole time he's been like trying to convince Magnus to make him Immortal so that they don't have to worry about like being together forever or anything so if someone says let's talk about immortality the boy's going to pull up he arrives at some creepy location of course because it's Camille and she's basically like hey so remember remember when I said I might be able to give you immortality I misspoke she says that if they work together she will tell Alec away to take magnus's immortality away so instead of them both being Immortal they will both be mortal that sounds Shady sounds real shady that night Clary has a nightmare in which she's in this weird wintry landscape and all of a sudden Jace appears and grabs her and they're like running down this frozen lake and they kind of skid to a stop and he turns and he's like Clary you have to promise not to scream Clary bolts awake and who is in her bed but Jace and what does she do she screams he of course grabs her hand over her mouth and it's like dear God woman like please I'm going to take my hand off of your mouth got to be quiet turns out he knew that she was snooping in the library he could sense her you know they can feel each other he kind of waited to see what Clary would do like would she go to the council and turn him in he has no idea what she thinks of him because he has no faith in Clary right he does not believe that she unconditionally loves him and believes that he is truly good okay so he's sort of like what will it take for her to finally turn on me but she didn't go to the council clearly she's staying quiet so he felt like he could trust her he's going to come talk to her he explains this to her and he's so thank ful that like she's proven her love so he leans in to kiss her when the door to her bedroom slams open and who is it brother dearest Sebastian all right somehow Sebastian's opening line is basically like hey sis oo are we kissing we did that once we should do that again sometime here we go Jay is sort of like Sebastian I told you to stay outside you're ruining the vibe I need to talk to Clary please go away so he steps back back into the hallway Clary immediately whips around and is like what is going on like the Jace that I know would not be like even talking to Sebastian he would be ripping Sebastian's face off so like what is going on you need to explain fast buddy and Jay is sort of like it's way more complicated than you can imagine nothing is black and white we are bound to each other we're brothers and before he can get any deeper into that we hear shouting from the hallway because why would we leave Sebastian just like standing in clary's home where Joselyn is known to just wander the Halls because she knows clary's up to no good all the time Joselyn finds her demon child just hanging out in her house she freaks out obviously they come out of the room Joselyn has a kitchen knife over her head and she's like I should have done this when you were born and she goes at Sebastian Clary notices that Jace looks really freaked out by this like he looks scared for Sebastian and when Joselyn stabs him in the chest she hears Jas go like and she looks down and there is blood pulling from his chest as well just like Sebastian so let's put this together shall we they're connected they share a bond Sebastian just got stabbed and now Jace is bleeding oh no so of course Clary launches herself in between Joselyn and Sebastian being like Mom hold on hold on I know you don't like my boyfriend but like you're going to kill him if you kill Sebastian you kill Jace this is when Luke pulls around the corner with a shotgun the situation is deteriorating very quickly it becomes this crazy fight where like Jace jumps over the sofa knocks Luke down Joselyn and Sebastian are like trying to choke each other eventually Sebastian somehow stabs Luke with a silver dagger and that kind of makes everybody pause and Jason Sebastian just dip into the night but like what Joselyn and Clary take Luke immediately to the magic werewolf hospital and we find out that Sebastian wasn't using a silver dagger he was using a dagger made of demon metal so most of these shadow Hunter weapons are made from like an Angelic metal Sebastian has the opposite so every time that they try to dig there's like the tip of the dagger came off in Luke's Stab Wound every time they try to dig it out it just like Burrows deeper into Luke's body and it's just like cutting him up from the inside out they're going to leave him in the hospital for people to figure that out and rightfully so Joselyn is like I do not feel safe in my apartment anymore we're going to go crash with Magnus for a bit so the fry women move in with Magnus which I'm sure he loves Magnus believes that the lupus prer have information on the demon medal so he's going to go talk to Jordan about figuring that out that's Jordan's new Mission and then of course Joselyn and Clary get in a big fight over Jace and how Joselyn just hates how obsessively in love Clary is with Jace and she's sort of like lowkey it reminds me of how I felt about Valentine so just you got to stay away from him leave this up to the clave to find him this is when brother Zachariah shows up and once again this man is a genius he has more brains than probably five of these characters combined he is like based on everything you've told me I don't think jaay is possessed what you described it seems very similar to a parabati bond so what him and Jace have they both share physical pain maybe not to the extent of like if you get stabbed I get stabbed pretty similar they can sense each other seems like a kind of demonic parabati Bond and on top of that he's like and based on my studies of said Bond I believe that there is always one of the pair that is more in control and the other one simply follows and so obviously Sebastian is the one in control but the kicker is Jace doesn't feel that like basically what the bond does is all of Sebastian's opinions and thoughts and feelings are basically transplanted into Jace but Jace doesn't think so they think that they are his own opinions if his favorite ice cream flavor used to be mint chocolate chip and Sebastian's is chocolate all of a sudden jaay is like wow yeah chocolate is the best flavor and he truly believes that that just like came from within him he has no concept of the fact that he's actually being controlled which is so dangerous but clary's like okay whatever like I don't give a about what his favorite ice cream flavor is I want to know what Sebastian wants like what is he getting out of this and also how do we kill him without killing my boyfriend we have reached the bottom of brother zachariah's well of knowledge he's like that's above my pay grade if you want to talk about weapons specifically demonic weapons we got to go talk to the iron sisters the iron sisters once again are the kind of female counterpart of the silent brothers and they make all of the Shadow Hunter weapons okay so road trip we get this random scene in Jordan's apartment where Isabelle shows up looking for Simon and he's not there and Isabelle just kind of gr and she's like G I think about him all the time and it's awful and nothing like this has ever happened to me before that scrawny little mundane bastard and then she continues to just talk about how she accidentally fell in love with Simon and Jordan just has to sit there on the couch like while she is Raging she's like pacing around like this Simon guy who does he think he is she's having a rough go of it and Jordan just has to Bear witness speaking of Simon he meets up with Clary at a diner this is where we learned that Clary lied she said that she forgot the fairy rings in the library that's not the case she kept them she just had a change of heart she doesn't want to work with the fairy queen so she was like telepathic Rings sounds like a good deal took them and has now devised her own plan that does not include the Fay okay so she whips out the Rings she has this horrible plan and I'm just going to read you the scene she began to explain but she she hadn't yet reached the end of her description when Simon interrupted out loud this time no absolutely not Simon she said it's a perfectly fine plan the plan where you follow Jace and Sebastian off to some unknown dimensional pocket and we use these rings to communicate so those of us over here in the regular dimension of Earth can track you down that plan let me introduce you to my good friend no I'll do it anyway she said if I can't use the Rings I'll still follow Jace to wherever he is I'm going to do it Simon I just have a better chance of surviving if you help me so of course Simon finally agrees he's like it like he even tries to get Clary to send him instead because he's indestructible so like let me go find Jace and no dice so Simon's like just remember when your mother is gnawing my ankle like a furious Mama Bear separated from her cub I did it for you Clary heads out to grab some supplies and she hopes that like when she's by herself Jace will contact her as Simon heads home he finds a note that Isabelle left basically being like I'm kind of freaking out and I would really like to see you I'm at magnus's apartment come as soon as you can and even before he's done reading the note he's on his way to magnus's house to get his girl she's just freaking out like Alec isn't really talking to her he's not talking to anybody who isn't Magnus Jace is missing like she doesn't really have anyone to confide in um and so she's just really having a hard time she can't get to sleep and she's just like Simon can you you just lay here until I fall asleep and just tell me a story where the good guys win and he's like okay okay I got it fairy tales here we go and she's like no we studied fairy tales in school I don't want that tell me something new and Simon's like okay I got a good one Simon stroked Isabelle's hair feeling her lashes flutter against his neck as she closed her eyes a long time ago in a galaxy far far away Leia is my sister back with Clary and her little suicide mission sure enough the second she's alone Jace finds her to his credit he does apologize he's like hey sorry about Luke that wasn't supposed to happen but I'm here to bring you with me and clary's like great cuz I was going to follow you anyway I will follow you anywhere Jace Jace leaned forward and kissed Clary and she tasted something bitter on his lips then a Darkness came down like a curtain signaling the end of the act of a plan part two certain dark things we start off in the car with Maya and Jordan they are on their way to try and find the head of the prer lupus basically the head guardian of the Guardian wolves because they think he'll know how to help Luke with his wound and it's the best time to have awkward conversations when you're stuck in a car together so Maya is like listen Jordan I'm sorry I freaked out when you said that you loved me I just I really really want to take this one slow okay so like how about we just we start off as friends expect everybody to do everything and Jordan is like uh respectfully no no I'm I cannot be your friend I'm not going to lie to you he says I'm in love with you I have always been and I always will be I literally cannot be your friend he says he's willing to take it slow and wait but he's not going to play around and like pretend he doesn't have these intense feelings for her but if she wants to just be friends and there's like no chance of this going any further Jordan's like let's just rip it off like a Band-Aid Maya like tell me where you stand he looked at her bracing as if for a blow but she simply unclipped her seat belt scooted across the bench seat towards him and kissed his cheek I feel like Isabelle and Simon think that they are the like one couple that communicates but Maya and Jordan are just like the two most uncomplicated people so I just feel like they're a breath the fresh air so one mess off the docket speaking of mess the girl in The Very middle of it all Clary she is continuing to have these creepy dreams about this winter escape and she's running on Frozen water but when she wakes up she is in an unfamiliar room she tries to use her fairy telepathy ring thing to talk to Simon and gets no answer because there was no guarantee that wherever the hell these people are hiding the fairy rings would even work so great start great start she is all alone but weirder still she's all alone in a super modern apartment that's like all White and chrome and black leather and there's like a fireplace that it's not described this way but I picture it as those fireplaces that use like glass instead of wood you know it's very cold but like some would call it Chic not my style she explores the whole place no one is there so it's multiple stories she's just free rain walking around trying to figure out where she is she finally finds a window and looks out and sees a bridge and people like walking near a canal and she's like where the are we she starts naming Canal City she's like is this Amsterdam are we in Venice like what is going on she of course bangs on the window and shouts trying to get the attention of the people down on the street but no dice now that she has explored the entire house um she heads back to the bedroom that she was in that she woke up in and she notices that there's a closet there filled with women's clothes that are all her size and like all her favorite colors very bizarre as if someone had planned for a long time that she would be here she manages to find Jace's room uh and she knows it's his because it's a mess and it smells smells like him then she finds another bedroom and she assumes it has to be Sebastian so she starts snooping around suddenly arms wrap around her tightly from behind and for a moment she thought it was Jace so she begins to relax what are you doing in my room Sebastian asks against her ear luckily Jace immediately shows up behind Sebastian and is like what are you doing get the back and Sebastian's like chill man just welcoming my little sis home I'm so happy we basically get a rundown that this apartment actually used to be Valentine's and he like set it up with the hope that one day Joselyn would forgive him and come back to him so that's why all the clothes in clary's room fit her cuz they're like the same size okay so really that's like her mother's wardrobe created by Valentine this is also a pocket Dimension so the apartment can move anywhere it wants to so right now they're in Venice but they could just like swirl a dial and be in Paris the next day um but Sebastian doesn't trust Clary enough to give her any more information about what are they doing these two boys and their weird like Dimension hopping apartment he's not going to tell us and so Jace is like listen if Clary stays here for a week and gains your trust will you tell her and and us dear reader what the is going on and so Sebastian agrees like yes she can stay trial period and you are not a prisoner here so you are allowed to go wherever you want as long as you are supervised which kind of sounds like she's a prisoner but whatever um and so Jace is just like great Clary get your things let's go on a date and sure enough they are in Venice he like puts his hand on a wall and it melts away and let's have a cute little Italian vacation are you sure you know how to drive this thing this is Roma nobody knows how D meanwhile remember how brother Zachariah said that the only way that they could find a weapon to fix this whole thing is to go to the iron sisters everybody has been congregating in magnus's house okay this is like headquarters so while they were there it was decd decided that Isabelle and Joseline should be the ones to go talk to the iron sisters because they're both women they're both Shadow Hunters they are the most likely to be welcomed with open arms what we learn is that basically they can't help they're like we can't make anything that would only kill one and not the other but we know something that might be able to they said that your best bet is to use a Blade of Heaven or Hell such as the sword of the Archangel Michael that has Heavenly Fire infused into to it that could do it but how the hell you get your hands on one of those puppies no idea the iron sisters are like if I know they're basically like our best guess is to summon an angel but if you summon an angel you get blasted by Heavenly Fire and you die so good luck with that that's I mean that's why Valentine died when he summoned the angel and then Clary was there to be like ooh I get his wish whoever were to summon an angel in order to get that blade to sever the bond would end up like Valentine crispy and dead and in the background of all of this stuff going on Alec just keeps meeting up with Camille he's really invested in this like immortality mortality thing and he's like if I were to get rid of magnus's immortality what would I have to do exactly and Camille is like oh nothing much just uh kill Raphael so that's going on keep that in the back of your head back in magnus's apartment where everybody is Simon finally wakes up and turns out the fairy rings actually do work Simon was just asleep so he's kind of like Clary are you there and she's like I'm not alone we can't talk now talk later good news on that front right he goes out into the kitchen and sees that everybody is there arguing over the news that Isabelle and Joselyn just brought back from the iron sisters that we need to summon an angel to get a Blade of Heaven to slice up this Bond okay and of course what we've already talked about you can't summon an angel without being killed by Heavenly Fire so Magnus is sort of like well hold on what did the iron sisters say exactly and if you remember they said you could use a Blade of Heaven or Hell and the theme of this book is really like taking everything that's slightly Angelic and producing a demonic version so Magnus is like it's easier to summon a demon like you you could die but you aren't guaranteed to die by summoning a demon so why don't we try doing that Joselyn being the mom uh of the crew is like absolutely not it's not something that we would do she is new to dealing with this crew so this is absolutely something that they would do Joselyn is like this is too insane for me I'm going to go wake up my daughter and check on her and remember Simon's whole job is to like hold off Joselyn before she realizes that Clary is missing and clary's only been gone for like a couple hours Simon is like oh no you can't go in the room and before he can come up with any kind of reasoning he's just like yeah she's not there he caves Joselyn just starts screaming at everybody Simon is obviously supposed to keep Clary safe but also Magnus she's like Magnus you have Wards around your house how did she get get out and he's like the wards are to keep evil things out not keep things in and Magnus is like and I also don't appreciate you yelling at me because Clary is an awful lot like her mother so maybe you should blame her and Joselyn is just like oh I can't deal with this she's going to go to the hospital to stay with Luke she expects Simon to give her 24-hour updates on her daughter and I feel like I'm I don't really have that much motherly Instinct but I feel like I would want more than just one update her day on like what my daughter is doing hanging out with a demonic psychopath you know like anyway joselyn's josin so she heads out Magnus closes the door behind her and whips around to his little posy in his living room and he's just like who's ready to raise a demon the middle of this book is just chaos so really quickly Maya and Jordan are on Long Island searching for the head Guardian werewolf they're doing great good teamwork thank you for your service meanwhile back with Magnus the demon r in crew they are gathering every single candle that Magnus has in his house which is a lot pretty easily summon the demon Magnus is half demon okay so I feel like he knows what he's doing and we quickly realize that this is not going to work out okay we're only halfway through the book first in payment the demon requests a happy memory from everyone which I feel like is not a good thing so he just like slurps up a memory from each person and so after all that the demon is like there's no weapon that I can think of that can do that but if you let me wander around until I find Sebastian I can take Sebastian into hell and so he won't be harmed he'll just be stuck in hell and Jace can hopefully then just like live out his life it's just a bad plan overall and also the demon demands to be like given Free Will and set loose onto the Earth and even these clowns are like you know setting a prince of Hell loose on planet Earth is like probably not the best plan so they swiftly just like banish the demon and they're like okay next plan that was a failure so Magnus turns to Alec and is like okay we're going to use your beautiful brain do you have any ideas and Alec just looks at him like who are you because remember the demon took their happiest memories right and Magnus is like and Alec is like just kidding but to be fair that's absolutely some that Cassie CLA would pull so I'm with you Magnus I was scared for a second there they are trying to decide whether or not it's worth it to let a prince of hell do his dirty work on Earth just to make sure that Sebastian isn't loose on earth when Maya and Jordan walk in the room back with Clary we get this weird scene where she's kind of like wandering the apartment at night she's having trouble sleeping because she's in a very weird situation ation and she stumbles across Sebastian who may or may not be having a threesome with a vampire and a human girl human girl may or may not have been aware that the person was a vampire before this all went down it's just a very icky situation but he just like casually waltzes into the kitchen to have a chat with Clary and he really wants her to know that he is not valent time that every time he has hurt someone it has been an accident against his will he didn't mean to Kill Max how do you accidentally kill a child I'm not so sure but he claims that everything is just a misunderstanding and he's really working hard to prove to her that he isn't his father just like Jace isn't Valentine Sebastian isn't Valentine either and one of his arguments is that like he also doesn't like using the name Jonathan Christopher Morganstern he prefers being named Sebastian so he's like look I'm just like Jace I don't like having the name that Valentine gave me either doesn't that prove anything weak but that's his argument speaking of vampires we're back with the demon raising gang they are out of ideas they're like we let's just take a time out everybody go get some sleep Isabelle again is like Simon I literally cannot sleep if you're not around so can you still hang out here like clary's gone so you don't need to babysit her please babysit me instead and Simon is like I would and I will but I need to go out and get something to eat if you know what I mean but then Simon's sort of like you know what I don't even know how I'm going to get human blood like this is just ridiculous I'm just going to go to sleep I can figure it out tomorrow I'm really tired too so they head to bed Isabelle leans in to kiss Simon good night and immediately his fangs pop out so he's like big mistake should have gone to get that snack and so Isabelle is like why didn't you say anything like I'm right here literally a b blood freshes can possibly be we get the classic I could kill you and the but I trust you to stop because you love me conversation and as always as we will find out every argument Isabelle wins Isabelle is basically like you fed from Jace and Simon is like I wasn't attracted to Jace and Isabelle is sort of like not even not even like a little bit not even a little bit girl after my own heart even she ships Simon and Jace like Cassie you stole so much from us Isabelle's literally like that's a bummer cuz that'd be pretty hot but anyway here you go I trust you and very carefully Simon takes a bite and spoiler he doesn't kill her we get a moment in The Institute where Maurice Lightwood has discovered something a little bit odd so Valentine put all of these different runes on his members of his inner circle and one of those runes is a tracking Rune so Maurice is suddenly like you know what I bet he put a tracking Rune on Jace too like his son so she checks the map that Valentine used to watch people's locations on and she sees his Rune popping up but like only for split seconds and all over the world so she calls brother Zachariah and is like listen this is the information I have he's alive so like yay but something's really bizarre and something tells me we shouldn't tell the clave this and even brother Zachariah silent brother who used to be a shadow Hunter even he is like yeah we're not telling the cave so let it be known that there is not a person in this world that trusts their government so now everyone is in cahoots we've got the silent Brothers we've got the of institutes we've got mothers demons and warlocks everybody is lying to the clave to protect this cutie speaking of the missing boy these three are in Prague now because Sebastian has an errand to run turns out he needs to buy Adamas if I'm pronouncing that correctly which is essentially the material used to make holy weapons which normally only the iron sisters can work with right in order to make Shadow Hunter weapons somehow he gets his hands on some but during the exchange the person he's buying it from is actually a demon and there's this whole huge fight that goes down in self-defense Clary actually ends up killing the demon and this is the first time she has ever killed a demon by herself remember like Isabelle or someone has always stepped in to kind of deal the final blow but Clary has made her first kill and she feels this high like no other this is when she's really like damn I am meant to be a shadow Hunter I love this good for her I guess you go girly glad you found your calling but speaking of hi because they ended up killing the person who was selling them this Adamas they ended up getting what they wanted for free so they're like we're going to go out and celebrate we've got all this extra cash Clary just made her first demon kill we're in Prague let's go have fun okay Prague is known for their night club scene so get ready pandemonium part two I don't know why but this scene is like burned into my memory like if I think about this series as a whole I remember this specific scene as if it were an entire book itself and I cannot tell you why so please let me know if you have a certain scene of this book burned into your memory because no explanation here we go they end up heading to a downworlder nightclub they're kind of dancing whatever and then Jace is like here why don't you have some of this not fairy wine like it isn't fairy wine but it's definitely some kind of downworlder spirit if you will Clary makes it very clear that like she has never done drugs she doesn't really drink other than that one time that her and Simon drank a lot of Kala and threw up and they were both like yep done with that um so she's hesitant at first but then she's like damn it I just kind of want to forget this whole mess for a little bit and it would be nice if I could just have fun and let go and Jace is very much like come on it'll be fun you know like pressuring her ma'am to try this ma'am sketchy silver liquid nuh-uh in a down worlder nightclub in Prague what could go wrong turns out we get our first like real hot and heavy scene between Clary and jaay we've gotten the make out the like kiss that transports her to a different dimension scenes plenty of those but now it's getting a little bit more serious Jay kind of leads her to a more secluded area I picture like a bunch of blue strobe lights I don't know why they're in this little Al Cove making out up against this grimy wall Clary is grabbing at Jason's shirt when she realizes it's sticky she looks down at her hands and is like that's not alcohol and when she goes to look up at Jace she looks past him and notices there is is a human pinata hanging from the ceiling dripping blood I don't know if she's having a bad trip or not but either way she blacks the out meanwhile as this is going on in another room Sebastian is meeting up with melor remember the bay that once kind of dated Isabelle but was the guy who the cely queen really wanted to get on the new downworlder Council and now he seems to be allying with Sebastian like it seems like the cely queen has decided to be on Sebastian's side of whatever war is about to erupt so that's weird later when Clary wakes up back in the apartment Jace is there being like I'm so sorry you were having a bad trip that was all your imagination but like I understand I'm so sorry you're safe now blah blah blah and Clary is sort of like off honestly like I need a little time by myself so Jace excuses himself she looks down at her hand and realizes her fairy ring is gone so any connection she had with the outside world that could potentially keep her safe she's stuck so she starts running around the apartment trying to figure out where it could be when she sees Simon start to leave the apartment like he puts his hand on the wall and it starts to melt away remember Clary has no access to the door like only Jason Sebastian can open it so she just like split-second decision decides to jump dump after him through the portal that he just opened which I just don't think is a great idea even Clary like for all of the shitty split-second decisions Clary has made because there's a reason there are six long books in this series even Clary is like oo I think I kind of made a mistake with this one because they pop out in Paris rather than just breaking free and finding a way to contact Simon or anything like that she just continued to follow Sebastian he ends up leading her to an apartment where they're having like a demon party like it's filled with just demons not even downworlders like straight up little children of hell and we end up getting like two to three scenes of Clary just being attacked like they immediately sense that she's a shadow Hunter and they just descend on her the second she walks in the room Sebastian eventually is able to grab her and save her uh but not before she gets bitten and poisoned by some kind of demon bite before she blacks out for the second time in less than 12 hours let me say the amount of like losing Consciousness that these young people go through in Cassie cla's Universe it's a lot so she's blacked out once again and the only thing that she can remember before she loses Consciousness is Sebastian drawing a rune on her arm and then everything's dark now let's head back to the demon raising team who are by the way calling them eles team good so I'm going to call them team good now they've decided that you know what the demon thing didn't work out the other option is summoning an angel when suddenly Simon is like wait a damn minute people I'm unkillable the whole issue with summoning an angel is that you are going to be dowed in Heavenly Fire and killed but my whole shtick is that I cannot be killed the Rune on me means that I cannot come into any harm so Bingo why don't I just summon the angel Magnus is sort of like hot damn that's not a bad idea only problem is that the angel is up to 60 ft tall Angels like the actual biblical description of angels is terrifying so Cassie seems to go like a little closer to the more biblically correct Angel so Magnus is like yeah we don't want to have this like 60ft giant winged multiple eyeballed angel pop up in the middle of Brooklyn so why don't we head to Luke's farm upstate as people in Upstate New York have seen things and they won't question it back with Clary she is still coming like in and out of Consciousness and all she knows is that she is being carried by Sebastian and she's having this kind of internal battle because for some reason she feels comforted she feels safe in his arms she says she knows it's weird but he seems to be trying really hard to walk carefully like to not jostle her and he did actually save her life so she's like this picture doesn't fit like this doesn't this isn't the Sebastian that I think of as like no feelings psychopath evil demon child right he ends up taking her to a park to help her wake up a little bit more I'm not sure and when she finally wakes up he explains why he is acting the way that he's acting and he's like listen I know that there is a war coming the clave are idiots which again everyone on this board agrees the clave are not prepared for a demon war and so Sebastian is trying to save the world in a kind of Twisted way where he thinks we're not prepared so I'm going to build my own Army like if the shadow Hunters aren't going to think of new ways to protect the world from demons I'm going to do it so that's what he's doing is like trying to create an army not to take over the world and destroy it but to save it so he wants to tell Clary more about his plan he's like listen will you just give me a second like can I just show you what I'm talking about and Clary says like shouldn't we shouldn't we tell Jace first like I want all three of us to be together for this and Sebastian's like no don't worry Jace is asleep I know that sounds like a throwaway pay attention Okay so if you thought that Jace was emo King Supreme hold on tight because Sebastian is coming for his crown as they are now walking around Paris Sebastian gives Clary a rundown of her family because clary's like you know what I'm a Morgan Stern I don't know anything about them like could you what is our family and she's like I don't understand how Jace plays instruments and knows about books and speaks all these different languages and Sebastian doesn't right like Jace grew up with Pian and all this stuff and Sebastian says Joselyn influenced Valentine to learn about books and music so Valentine passed that love of things on to Jace Sebastian held his hands up I on the other hand learned to play the instruments of war and blood I'm not like Jace we get a long scene where Sebastian buys Clary some hot chocolate and he keeps talking about his past and like the main thing is that he just wants to be loved like even though jaay had a up childhood he still had moments where Valentine clearly cared like let him play piano let him read books killed his pet Hawk but Sebastian was basically like just taught how to kill and taught how to like make people believe that he has feelings and he really wants to find someone who feels similar to him and he keeps pushing this idea on Clary and this is where it gets weird because he's like and I really think that that's us Clary we're the same because I don't really care about killing people and you don't really seem that shaken up of the fact that you killed your own father so like how many signs of the universe do you need girl we are soulmates platonic soulmates H anyway they finally get to where they're going remember Sebastian wants to show her his plan they get to an apartment and he buzzes his way up and a woman opens the door he introduces us to Sister Magdalena sister magdalina used to be an iron sister but she left The Sisterhood and you can't just leave The Sisterhood you need to be banished and how do you get to be banished Sebastian turns to Clary and says who do you think gave the circle all of their weapons yeah sister she's a bad none but remember go back to Prague Sebastian has just come into possession of a bunch of admas that material that the iron sisters Ed to make weapons so he is going to Sister Magdalen in order for her to make something out of that material that will help him build his army to save the world he basically hands her the material is like here you go please make that thing that I asked you to make okay bye we're going to go and sister Magdalena just takes the package looks up at Clary and Sebastian and it's just like God you look just like your parents the siblings head back to the apartment and this is where we find Jace who is in in the training room who is hot and sweaty and bothered because nobody left him a note but now that we're all together we're going to learn the full scope of Sebastian's plan the plan that these two teenage boys have cooked up to save the world okay they have asked sister Magdalena to create not a sword not a dagger but a second mortal cup stick with me here okay a cup is just a cup it's just a cup made from this fancy metal until you add blood that ends up making it a mortal cup so Sebastian has been working on convincing the demons that they want to make a demon version of a shadow Hunter which is an easy thread to believe because that's what his daddy wanted to do but what they're going to do is gather some of the greater demons who are going to come and put their blood into the cup but in reality they aren't going to put their blood into the cup while they are in this meeting Jace and Sebastian are going to kill them all so now the greater demons aren't going to hurt the world and the day is saved basically it's a big trap there are so many plot holes this is so dumb okay obviously cooked up by these two that is what their big plan is they're going to have a big old Conference of demons and kill them all in one spot shaky at best we also get many pages of Jace telling us how corrupt the clave is like just hammering that home in case we didn't get that from the other four books that we've read and Clary is basically like thank you guys so much for trusting me with your plan this is stupid as hell but now if you're thinking like wow this is great all three of them are working together Carrie you really had me worried about that whole incest thing like it seems like Sebastian's fine now what were you talking about Clary says that she's tired because she had a rough day she has again been knocked unconscious twice in the past 12 hours walked all around Paris for who knows how long and she just heard her brother and boyfriend come up with the stupidest plan of the century so she's like I'm going to go sleep this off she starts to head upstairs and Sebastian is like hold on can you give me my scarf back cuz when they were walking around Paris it was chilly he gave her his scarf like a nice brother and Clary is like oo yeah sorry and she's kind of like struggling to get it off Sebastian made an impatient noise and stalked across the room towards her his long legs covering the space between them quickly she stiffened as he put his hand on her throat and deftly undid the knot in a few motions to unwrap the scarf she thought for a moment that he lingered before unwrapping it fully his fingers brushing her throat she remembered him kissing her on the hill by the burned remains of the fair child Manner and how she felt as if she were falling into a dark abandoned place she backed up hastily thanks she yells and darts up the stairs not looking behind to see her brother watch watch her go holding the scarf a quizzical expression on her face so tell me why there is still some kind of sexual tension between these two tell me why but don't worry Cassie is going to balance that out with some good sibling content okay how siblings should act in case you're worried let's go back to Simon who remember has been dodging phone calls from his sister who is away at College who does doesn't know what's going down all she knows is that her mom is freaking out and she can't get a hold of her baby brother so Simon finally picks up he's like listen potentially going to die going to go meet an angel might as well talk to my sister who is now home for like Thanksgiving break or something they end up meeting in Central Park and Simon is just like here's my truth tells her the whole damn story and at first Rebecca is like come again like what did you just tell me Sebastian says listen I'm a vampire and I just wanted to see you one time before I disappear from your lives forever cuz I know you guys don't want to see me and he turns to walk away and Rebecca is like bro when did I say I want you out of my life like give me a sec to be fair she does scream and like stumble back when he whips out his fangs to prove to her that he's a vampire but she quickly recovers and is like listen you're my brother we'll figure this out we'll figure mom out but like I'm here for you I love you and I'll always love you and that's like exactly what Simon needs to hear right now because remember still at the back of his mind he's being told that he's not really he's like The Outsider of this circle and no one's going to love him forever he has like some blood family that still loves him he finally gets a little bit of happiness in this story some more sibling bonding just to truly balance the scale we are driving up to Luke's Cottage Farm in Upstate New York to summon the angel right and Isabelle and Alec are sitting together and they finally just kind of talk about their childhoods Isabelle kind of mentions like her daddy issues with her dad betraying her trust by cheating on her mom and Alec is like yeah well think of all the microaggressions I've had to deal with and he really goes into it like what it's like being out in a community that does not support its gay community members once again like books weren't really talking about this like teenagers dealing with fames not accepting them so in the little like multidim itional apartment things are going down the drain but in the human realm people are like dealing with trauma and getting closer and living their truths flashback to Clary she went to bed as we know Jace just like lets himself into her room and wants to talk and then wants to cuddle and then wants to hook up because what happened in that club did not finish in the way that he thought it was going to so he gets a little more physical with her than they've kind of ever done done before and she immediately is like no way no not into it not with my weird brother and like these memories of having kissed him still like freshen my brain we're not doing this here in my evil father's former apartment okay he ends up getting like kind of frustrated uh which really isn't Jace's usual like he's usually very very respectful about that because again he feels like he doesn't deserve so the fact that he's even allowed to like touch Clary he thinks is like the most amazing thing so he's he's usually very respectful but in this case he's really frustrated and he goes and takes a cold shower he ends up immediately apologizing to her after the shower and he reads out loud until she falls asleep which is lovely then she wakes up a little bit later because she never gets a full night sleep let's learn that right now and she overhears a conversation that Jace is having with Sebastian just outside her door when he comes back in she can tell that Jace is totally different she says that throughout this whole book pretty much he's never really felt like Jace he's almost like hearing a song that she knows but in a different key and now she looks at him this new Jace that just came in and is like what the that's him that's my Jace okay that's the correct key we finally got it and he like falls to his knees in front of the bed and he grabs her hands and he's Whispering really quickly he's like it's me it's me I'm here so even he knows that he hasn't been fully around cuz remember this whole Bond thing he's supposed to not know it's supposed to feel natural to him but however this bond has severed for like however long this is going to last he suddenly is like I haven't been myself and he's like I'm I'm back he says please believe me I have to go I can't talk now but in a few minutes after I leave really quietly go up to my room and hide don't let Sebastian know but I'll tell you everything when I get back famous last words right okay but anyway Jace he's free let's go find out how I don't know why she made that like super dramatic ending of a chapter like I'll be back when wherever he went he was only away for like a couple seconds because they immediately just meet up again in Jace's room and so what it turns out is that Sebastian has been sending Jace out during the day to like get in fights like a lot of what he's doing is dealing with demons because they're doing this whole like whatever whatever it is he is going out and about and he is often getting in physical conflicts and whatever happened today while Clary was taking a nap he injured himself on that Rune which we know is if a rune is scraped or broken in some way bond is also a little bit broken so it's just enough that he has snapped out of the bond until inevitably his skin will heal okay apparently today he got stabbed with a very specific type of dagger that actually takes much longer to heal he so normally if he gets a scrape he's healed really quickly so his kind of Consciousness is just like Zapped back under control really fast but this time he gets like a few more minutes of freedom and the kicker is this particular blade uses Angel blood and for some reason it seems like Sebastian didn't feel it like Sebastian is not aware that he got injured enough that he could be free because if Clary were to just stab Jace at any point in the Rune Sebastian would know right you can't just cut the skin off because Sebastian would obviously be aware so this is like the one time that he's free and it has gone unnoticed says this isn't forever I'm going to be back under that spell again but I need you to know what I'm like and then he just starts crying and this is not a boy that cries okay like he has been taught not to by Mr Valentine over here um but he is just like tears pouring down his face just like I'm so sorry I don't know what to do like I'm I'm actually stuck this is the the first time he's really felt like zero hope tears quickly turn to kisses which quickly turns into their first really really steamy seed I know that I keep saying that but like but now they're like very close to like a really intimate moment and right when it's about to get serious jaay pulls back and he's like hold the phone and his reasoning for this is that he's basically like I'm jealous of myself he says that he hates it when he is with Clary under the spell because it's it's like being behind a glass wall like he knows everything that's happening but like the main part of him the the real part of him isn't fully in control of his actions so he's like it's not really me anytime you're with me I don't feel like it's me and he says like if tonight we were to like really go all the way which he wants to he says what if my Rune heals and I change back under the spell in the process and that like really beautiful moment that he wants to have with Clary is ruined so he's like not tonight not until we really break Break Free of this Bond and also fun fact Jace isn't going to remember anything from when he was free once he gets back under the spell he will have no memories of what real Jace and Clary have talked about like he just kind of blacks out whenever he's free and so then when he's under the spell it's as if those moments of Freedom never happened are you following me so Clary decides like okay let's put that aside don't really want to be kissing somebody right now let me just clean you up you're covered in blood which I feel like she should have dressed before they considered having sex but whatever she starts cleaning up the blood and she's like by the way who did you stab who stabbed you like what was going on and he is just like oh uh you might not know her but you know Sister Magdalen her sister magdalina finished her work finished making the cup Sebastian sent Jace to pick it up and then made him kill her so that nobody else can ever make another cup again basically which was sort of alluded to because when they were in Prague they were talking about how there's this specific really beautiful Clock Tower and the legend behind it is that the King after this clock tower was made blinded the artist because he didn't want him to ever create anything as beautiful as the Clock Tower and so Sebastian was like what a great idea why don't I kill this nun so that she can't make any other holy objects ever again crazy guy okay he's not just crazy he's a dirty liar okay now we're going to get the real truth from Jace Sebastian told Clary that he's using the cup to lure the demons together and kill them all correct when in reality he's going to help revive Lilith because demons never really die they just kind of Sizzle out and then eventually they are reborn so she's sort of like there already but he wants to fully revive her to her full powers and then he will combine Sebastian's blood his own blood and Lilith's blood together using the cup and create a dark neili which is basically what his father had tried to do so we're just back we just have have another Valentine to deal with lucky us also this is when we learn the true Stakes we already knew that if we kill Sebastian we killed Jace right but we didn't really have a reason to fully kill Sebastian yet right like there wasn't there wasn't any time ticking he wasn't really doing much so we thought but now we know like he has the final piece of the puzzle this new Mortal cup and he is going to raise Lilith and take over the world and Destroy in a matter of days potentially so now suddenly we have a deadline and we don't seem in a couple of days it doesn't seem like we're going to get anything that is going to sever this connection and so Jace is like listen Clary you are a great Shadow Hunter your job is to kill demons and protect the world if you want to be a great Shadow Hunter you need to kill me right now we love a love that's doomed to fail part three all is changed it's time to summon an angel they finally get everything set up Simon the last thing he wants to do is just talk to Clary but remember clary's rings have gone missing so they can't communicate he's really freaking out he hasn't heard from her and he's like I'm potentially going to die in a couple seconds so I'd really like to talk to my best friend but it seems like it's not in the cards for our dear Simon Magnus comes up and like Pats him on the shoulder and it's like good luck buddy and Simon realizes it's time for his famous last words he turns to Alec and he says Alec I always liked you better than Jace to Magnus he says Magnus I wish I had the nerve to wear the kind of pants that you do and then he turns to Isabelle he saw the question in her eyes but there seemed nothing he could say in front of Alec or Magnus nothing that would enccompass what he felt so he says bye I guess love of my life Simon Lewis they walk away he raises the spell book and begins to chant back with Jason Clary Jace is still in control of himself so he's like Clary this is the plan he still is able to control the portal remember Clary can't control the door in the apartment but Jace can so Jace is like I'm going to portal us immediately to silent City I'm going to turn myself into the silent brothers and I'm going to give them the Mortal cup and then he won't be able to do his evil Deeds right and Claire does the most batshit thing she could have ever done okay queen of making stupid Split Second decisions this Takes the Cake she listens to what Jay says she thinks hm turn yourself into the silent Brothers you say the silent brothers and the shadow Hunter community at large that has reason to kill you on site because you might be a spy and working with Sebastian no I don't want that to happen what if brother Zachariah Cuts your head off before you even can say anything because that's something she thinks brother Zachariah could do no the right thing to do in this situation is to call Sebastian and tell him that Jace escaped his curse she starts screaming she's like Sebastian get in here Jace escaped his bond and Sebastian like immediately runs in and fixes the Rune and Jace is back under his control before he fully is under the spell he turns to Clary and he's like I don't know if I can ever forgive you for this he's like if he succeeds and raises an army and destroys the world it's going to be my fault and I would rather die than live through that so thanks a lot Clary thanks a lot back up State Simon proves himself to be an incredible Diplomat within minutes he summons the angel and has a nice little chat the angel appears Simon explains what's going down and he's like you know I don't really interfere with Earth stuff and Simon is like yes but Earth stuff is going to interfere with you and what if I promise that this is the absolute last time a shadow Hunter is ever going to bother you and it's kind of also your fault because Angels did bring Jace back to life and threw off the balance so you got to kind of have a little sense of responsibility here angels and when the angel hears like oh you won't bother me ever again sure have a sword because that is the stipulation of the deal is that you will never call on Angels because we're tired of you guys as an added bonus he also gets his Mark of cane taken off of him and this is a bonus for him because the Rune is sort of a blessing and a curse for him so the angel is like listen I promise I won't hurt you right now but give me your mark never dark in my doorstep again how does that sound deal and boom Simon now has the sword of the Ark Angel Michael apparently the word is too magnificent for human ears so you can just call the sword glorious and when he's done he walks back to his team Isabelle runs over huge hug she's like oh my God I thought you died I love you she didn't say I love you in words but like it was there so Simon is just doing real well in the third act okay Larry quickly realizes that the ceremony of the Mortal cup and raising Lilith and then raising an entire demon Army yeah that's taking place tonight which is why Jace wanted to stop everything and go to silent City she thought she had more time to like I don't know come up with some stupid plan no girl she starts running around the apartment trying to find at least Jace's Stell so she can start writing runes or anything but as she's rumaging through Sebastian's room which is where she assumes it would be she finds her fairy rings she like what the puts it on immediately is like Simon Simon are you there gets a hold of Simon downloads all the information to him she's like this is what's going down I need your help now this is where we are luckily Simon is like cool we got the sword we're coming for you don't worry but before they can say anything else Sebastian walks in his room because of course he does he's everywhere and he's like how dare you do you think I actually started to trust you of course not and they start kind of fist fighting and he says this Gem of a line which is he is fighting her and he's like wow you're so tiny before you came to the apartment I would have never thought that you were such a little Spitfire especially when you're in bed pardon all right she rightfully is like what the did you just say and Sebastian Just Smiles he leans in close to her and when he spoke his voice was low and rough everything that marks Jace marks me he said down to your fingernails he was great so every time that they got a little hot and heavy while he was under the curse Sebastian could physically feel all of that so like when they almost went all the way there were like Clary finger marks down Jace's back Sebastian has those marks too he was just like in another room sit with that Clary uses that Rush of adrenaline and disgust and anger to beat the out of Bastion which is very satisfying to read and she ends up actually smashing the fairy ring because he's been using it to talk to the fairy queen cuz they're in some weird Cahoots as we saw from the nightclub with mellor so she smashes that ring she's like I've got nothing else to say to Simon let's hope he figures it out and punches Sebastian so deeply in his stomach that he actually like hurls over and she has just enough time to grab his Stell out of his belt she gets as far in the apartment as where the door is supposed to be if she had powers to open it she's struggling to write a rune on the wall when Sebastian catches up to her he starts yelling at her about how she betrayed him and he's really upset that like she's intimate with Jace for some reason that keeps coming up that like he that's some kind of betrayal and he's also making fun of her cuz he's like haha you didn't even have time to finish your Rune and I caught you so now you're stuck with me blah blah blah and he keeps talking about her relationship with Jace and he's like well you know if you did go all the way anyway he wouldn't have remembered it so I hope you at least had a good time I would have Clary feels bile in her throat and she says like you're my brother how many times do we need to go over this and this is why it's apparently okay okay mhm he's like it's fine it's fine cuz we aren't humans so your weird like DNA rules They Don't Really apply to us and he says anyway just so stupid he's like anyway did you know that Cleopatra married her brother it strengthens the bloodline and he says like you belong to me you don't understand what love is you can still be with Jace if you want to but like you belong to me and he brings his mouth down on hers thought we were done with this no but luckily for us it only lasts about a millisecond because Clary bites down on his lips so hard that it goes all the way through blood is running down his cheeks she she kicks him in the stomach it's a fantastic moment Sebastian starts to fight back and while he's fighting he starts quoting the Bible about like my sister my spouse thou has ravaged my heart like weird no no she is fighting for her life she somehow finds a piece of glass that they must have broken during their fight and she starts like going all stabby and he just kind of stops and laughs and he's like yeah go ahead go ahead girl kill me cuz you'll kill Jace too and she just freezes and that's enough for him to grab her and be like come on we got to clean up we've got big things to do tonight got a demon Army to raise and that's that's that that's that meanwhile team good trying to find a way to help Clary and Jace they end up telling Maurice everything that they know because they need backup and Clary did manage to give them the location of the demon Army raising party and Simon and the Gang are basically like listen you can kill him later but we have 40 minutes to figure this out mace is having a little existential crisis because team good is like we're not going to tell the clave about this we have to go behind the clave's back because the clave wants to kill Jace and Maurice is like yeah but if we go behind the claves back they might kill us her like mother instincts are just not there sometimes she's like oh Jay's I love him like he's my own son but then the second she is possibly going to get in trouble for anything she's like ooh so so she like seems to be on board but barely she's she's Holding On by fingernails Simon calls in the werewolves as reinforcement he gets Maya and Jordan to go find as many werewolves as he possibly can and then Magnus kind of pulls Simon aside and he's like Simon and reader if you didn't already understand the stakes so we have Jace might die or an entire Army might be raised another fun fact to add is that if Jace dies yay Sebastian dies so like kind of evens out if Jace dies a hug huge chunk of Alec will be destroyed because they're parabatai in future books the parabatai bond is much stronger like these guys don't hang out that much in other Cassie Clair books in this world poai are like Inseparable so close we really don't get the scope of it with Jason Alec but like if you lose your poai you are like heartbroken for the rest of your life and it's like debilitating okay so Magnus is like we got to say Jace because like I like the kid he's fine but we have to save Jace because it will kill my boyfriend to lose him so just in case the stakes weren't high enough add that to our list once Clary is dressed and ready to go Sebastian produces a crossbow I don't know why he has like a crossbow to her back and is like marching her out the door they get to the door and he starts to open the portal when there is a massive explosion and Clary starts laughing turns out remember how she was like scrambling to get out the door drew a rune and Sebastian was like haha you didn't finish it he thought she was trying to draw an open Rune but remember a while back when she had this weird vision of a rune that she didn't know what it did she knows what it does now the Rune basically is like if you put it on a door the next time that door opens it will explode how specific but anyway yeah his traveling apartment Days Are Over the portal feature is is broken and as punishment for destroying his door Sebastian is like growling he's like you're going to be the first one to drink from the cup he is so like Mustachio twirling Villain at this point in the book it's not even I guess it is kind of funny but like it's just sad Sebastian we get to the ceremony there's about 40 Shadow Hunters there like remnants of the circle and we waste no time Lilith is back baby we raise her from the dead real fast and she's like perfect thanks Sebastian thanks sord of son um we need a volunteer for the first Sip and of course they're not going to test this Mortal Instrument for the first time on a loyal member of the circle they need someone under duress to take the first sip they pull someone out of the crowd with like a bag over their head and when they take it off it is the last person you would think of it's Luke's sister a Mattis I realized I was pronouncing her name wrong the entire last book book and I don't remember what the correct word is but anyway it's Luke's sister what the heck Clary watches in horror as am mantis is forced to drink from the cup she immediately succumbs to the demon blood and is like a super strong Shadow Hunter Clary is like begging in her mind she's like please amantis like maybe she's just faking it you know like maybe she kept her mouth closed really tight and didn't actually take a sip but as amtis looks at Clary she can just tell amtis is gone Clary is trying to figure out like okay has hit the fan what do I do when of course reinforcements arrive team good the werewolves alen and Helen show up everybody's here Sebastian is a cowardly piece of so he immediately hides behind all of the other Shadow Hunters that are there he desperately tries to get Clary to drink from the cup but no dice she manages to like fight him off and she just jumps into the melee the battle scene is chaotic so here's bullet points it's crazy okay the main goal of this is to stab Sebastian that is the goal Simon is actually holding his own in the battle and luckily he's able to quickly find Clary he gives her the Archangel sword that's what we're going to do right stab Sebastian specifically with this sword when Simon looks at her she's no longer Clary his friend since childhood but a shadow Hunter an avenging angel who belonged with that sword in her hand but before she can get anywhere jaay stops her and he's like you can't do this give me the sword they stare at each other she looks into his golden eyes and she says you know what Jace if you want it here you go and she stabs Jace through the heart he didn't try to jerk away she's now pressed up against him gripping the sword his blood began to spill from the wound in his chest there was a scream a sound of rage and pain and Terror the sound of someone being brutally torn apart but it wasn't Jace Jace didn't make a sound despite everything his face was calm and peaceful he looked down at Clary and his eyes Shone as if he were filled with light and then he began to burn Jace fell to his knees the sword burning a white gold flame fire filled his body like colored water filling a clear glass picture eventually the fire burned out and he collapsed on the stones below him she's like no I won't let the silent Brothers kill you I'll kill you myself what is going on in this girl's mind I love her but unhinged everyone starts gathering around and Clary is now on her knees holding Jace and she's like no no no no no no I thought this through he's not dead she says the sword Burns away anything evil that's that's what the angel Heavenly Fire does she said it burns away anything evil and she truly believes that Jace isn't evil so she's like he's good it just burned away the remnants of Sebastian's curse like it wouldn't hurt Jace and in her mind she just keeps going like come on Jace you're stronger than this like you're good you're good meanwhile everyone else is like where the did Sebastian go these I just I just don't know how we keep losing this man okay Sebastian has once again disappeared her mom and Simon and Alec they just kind of gather around Clary and they're like listen you got to let him go like he's this is it he's already died once strike to like please Clary just let's walk away but then she says wake up Jace Jace Lightwood come back she froze there was movement so tiny it was hardly movement at all so faint you could almost miss it under her fingertips the rhythm of his heart epilogue not the end of the series though guys remember we still have 800 pages and a missing body don't get too comfortable but here's the up Vlog Jace wakes up in the infirmary Isabelle and Alec are waiting for him Alec is super pleased because he can feel through the parbai bond that Jace is back baby he doesn't feel like off like Jace that Alec has been feeling this whole time they were still kind of scared though so that's why Clary hasn't been allowed in the infirmary for like in in case he woke up and was like wanted to go on a killing spree I don't know so they kept Clary away Isabelle informs him that he's been asleep for 2 days and he's going to have a giant ass scar on his chest where his girlfriend stabbed him and Jay says well damn I was relying on the money from that topless underwear modeling gig I had lined up so Jace is back safe to say for better or worse and then Isabelle is like Okay cool so one last thing not a big deal don't freak out but you're kind of glowing now and jaay is like come again and he looks down at his hands and sure enough the boy shimmers there is a Golden Glow emanating from his body Alec is like yeah we think it's like a side effect of being stabbed by an Angel sword and we hope that it fades but like it's a look you're pulling it off man and now we get the bombshell to end all Bombshells because we cannot know peace this little happy ending a sparkly Jace everything's good no never I have to read this because I just it's so much remember that Alec was in cahoots with Camille talking about potentially killing Raphael in order to get Camille to teach Alec how to take away magnus' immortality so that they can grow old together you know that whole thing that was not just some cute side quest okay he never got to like actually finish that deal and talk to her so now that the war is averted he decides like I need to tell her no like we're not doing this I'm not interested in this so he starts heading out to meet Camille when he is intercepted by Magnus and he's like yeah I heard it all like I understand like I know what you were talking with Camille about and Magnus is like and what pisses me off Alec honestly is that this whole time he's been looking for a specific spell book he's been looking for this thing called The Book of white and that book has a spell that would turn him mortal Magnus was like I was ready to grow old with you and die and like give it all up for you but knowing that you would go behind my back and potentially make that decision for me I don't think that our love is as strong as I thought it was like I don't even know you you know Alec is about to explain himself when Magnus Cuts him off and says Alec I love you but I can't be a part of this anymore and if I might offer you a piece of advice avoid Camille there's a war coming and you don't want your loyalties to be in question do you he turns and walks away his hands in his pockets walking slowly as if he were injured a not just from the cut at his side they broke up and Magnus is really hurt by it but he's just like I can't take this anymore like I'm just I can't so he disappears into the night but then because why would Alec listen to a word that his ex-boyfriend told him he immediately goes to find Camille to be like oh you up girl like you screwed my entire life over how dare you but instead of finding Camille he finds morine he's like hey little girl uh I need to find Camille and Morin kind of giggles and she's like ooh tough luck she's dead and Alec is like who who killed her and Moren Giggles again she's like oh me Clary comes to the Institute because the silent Brothers aren't like still aren't letting her see Jace because they want to run experiments on him to see like why the is he glowing though like she ends up running into Isabelle and they have a cute little conversation in which Clary is like listen Isabelle I don't want to step on any toes but you need to tell Simon that you like him because he never will you are so out of his League that he will never think that he's good enough for you and he will never be the first one to express his feelings okay so if you want him to reciprocate any of those feelings you need to be real straight with him and also remember Isabelle in the first book was like one of the people who voted to like keep Simon in Rat form permanently so clary's like yeah you should really like clear up where you stand and then we get the big reunion we have been waiting for Jace is Moody reading in his hospital bed because what else would he be doing and Clary starts off strong she basically walks in and she's like hey sorry I stabbed you jaay puts his book down and looks really confused he's like wait you're here to apologize to me he's like Clary you saved my life and maybe the world and Clary is like no but I think you missed the part like what doing that yeah I stabbed you I stabbed you through the heart with a massive sword and you caught on fire jayon is like okay so maybe our problems aren't quite the same as like a normal couple but don't apologize for what you did he said you also brought me back to life he said I heard you screaming like I ran towards your voice he says how can I possibly be angry with you I fell in love with you because you're the bravest person I've ever known how could I ask you to stop being brave just because I loved you and then when Clary Le in to kiss him he's like hold on I wasn't done so that Heavenly Fire stuff that burned all of the baddy bad stuff out of him hasn't fully left his body so people who touch him still get burned it's unclear this is not described well okay so just stay with me I think it's that his hands can't touch anyone it's unclear because clearly Clary can touch him because she grabs his cheek and leans in and he goes we're going to rip sebas into pieces and they make out Clary felt a spark that was quote not painful more like static electricity passed between them but Jace quickly Drew away and he's like that's enough we need to work on that our final scene we head to the library to see Maurice Lightwood she's talking to brother Zachariah and he's like I assume that you want updates on the son that you love but won't risk your life for and he's basically like yeah we don't know what to do but we're working on it we don't know why he's glowing or why he burns people that he touches but on our to-do list don't worry Maurice and Maurice is sort of like oh don't worry about it I pretended to care about Jay for 300 Pages kind of at my limit update me when you can not a big deal I have something else to show you I hate this woman so much she removes the rug in the middle of the library she like pulls it back which brother Zachariah has now realized was strangely lumpy a lumpy rug because underneath it there's a pair of angel wings clearly sliced from the back of an Angel and on top of the Wings is a note written simply I'm coming signed Jonathan Christopher Morgan Stern so my dear friends the story continues we still have 724 pages left to read I will be summarizing it we will finish this we will get through this together I promise but yeah so that's what happened slippery little guy this Sebastian he's always running out when we think we caught him so yeah who knows I don't remember like we're we are now departing fully from like anything that's in my memory so I have no idea what's coming for us in the next book I'm quite excited uh and scared so that will be coming up hopefully somewhat soon I have travel and stuff going on but it will not be another eight months I promise so thank you for sitting with me for all of this you are truly God strongest Warriors and I will leave you here once again because you clearly enjoy audio content uh I want to give a huge thanks to listening. comom for sponsoring this all the information will be down below but you can get a free 3 week trial of listen.com with my link down below go learn some things go fill your head with knowledge that is not related to demon hunting will do you some good go touch some grass go hydrate and I will see you guys next time all right see you then bye\n"