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425 pp.
| McElderry |
April, 2011 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4424-0354-3$19.99
(4)
YAMortal Instruments series.
Now that Valentine is dead, Shadowhunter Clary and company face a new threat: a demonic cult that's killing human infants. Meanwhile, Jace has violent dreams about hurting Clary, and Simon is having trouble adapting to life as a vampire. The reliance on grandiloquent literary devices and overblown romantic anguish distracts from (and inflates) this otherwise absorbing urban fantasy.