City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare – review
Audiobook reviews , Book Reviews / June 2, 2014

City of Heavenly Fire is the sixth and final book in Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments series. It is the final chapter in the fight between Sebastian and Team Good for control of the world itself.  There has been major hype and excitement about this book, closing off as it does, the adventures of much loved characters. For me personally, I found the book somewhat of a disappointment.  This is the final book in the series and far too often Clare took the easy road. What I liked Setup for the next trilogy.  It is perhaps a measure of my disappointment that the aspect of this book I found most intriguing was the setup for the next series, The Dark Artifices.  TDA is set in LA and is centred around Emma Carstairs and her friend Julian Blackthorn, whom we meet in this book.  At first I’d been unconvinced about the LA setting – for me vampires/werewolves/demons etc have an old world feel, and seemed better suited to the older cities of New York and London.  However Clare completely convinced me LA was a valid setting and I really loved the character of Emma.  She is still little more than a…