At last, after months and months of suffering, re-reads, and snippets that broke our fangirl hearts, City of Heavenly Fire has finally been released!
I was so excited when I woke up this morning and realized that today, TODAY, I could finally get my hands on the book that I had been waiting since last year (when City of Lost Souls came out and I read it in like three days) for.
I just about cried when my Mom gave it to me. And proceeded to stare at it with wonder for the rest of the car ride, barely able to hold back from starting it. Several hours later, as I write this, the book sits next to me on my bed. I'm already 399 pages in, and let me tell you- it's been one heck of a ride so far. Epic. I will not spoil anything as of yet, though, and my full review will come later, but I just wanted to post today and celebrate the release of the book. Some of you lucky people got the book delivered a day early, but every moment of waiting so far has been entirely worth it for me.
Alas, the last epic book in the series that began with City of Bones, has finally been released. It is with a great sadness that I read my book, knowing that it will be a while before we hear of the badass Shadowhunters again. For fear not, dear Shadowhunters, there will be more! Cassandra Clare plans to write several "Shadowhunter" chronicles, and the next series, which will take place in Los Angeles five years after the events of City of Heavenly Fire, has been named.
The Dark Artifices.
It will be released in 2015, starting with "Lady Midnight". Here is a summary of "Lady Midnight".
Los Angeles, 2012.
It's been five years since the events of the Mortal Instruments when Nephilim stood poised on the brink of oblivion and Shadowhunter Emma Carstairs lost her parents. After the blood and violence she witnessed as a child, Emma has dedicated her life to the eradication of demons and being the best, fastest and deadliest Shadowhunter since Jace Lightwood. Raised in the Los Angeles Institute, Emma is paired as a parabati with her best friend, Julian. As Emma hunts those who caused the death of her parents, the trail they're following leads back to those they've always been taught to trust. At the same time, Emma is falling in love with Julian-- her closest friend, and because he is her parabati, the one person in the world she's forbidden by Shadowhunter Law to love. Set against the glittering backdrop of present day Los Angeles, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches from the warlock-run nightclubs of the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica.
Okay. So, that sounds pretty epic. 'Course we've got about a year to wait, probably longer seeing as how Clare likes to torture us. But, in the meantime, we can be tortured by the amazingness that is City of Heavenly Fire, and (hopefully) the City of Ashes movie, starring Jamie Campbell Bower as Jace and Lily Collins as Clary.
 |
| My Copy of City of Heavenly Fire. |
Review of City of Heavenly Fire will come soon. Probably in a week or two, once I re-read it and fully grasp everything that happened in this 733 page book of epicness. Yes, I realize the word "epic" was used several times in this post. Sorry. I can't help it. I always use "epic" when describing a Cassandra Clare novel.. Anyway, in the meantime, feel free to sound off in the comments your thoughts about this book, and what you think of the Dark Artifices. :)
No comments:
Post a Comment