OK so I am finally done with this book. 
 Let's keep this simple: this book is horrible!!!!!! The story itself was absolutely interesting! Valentine, the Silent Brothers, the Nephilim, the new abilities of Jace&Clary. All these things could have been set into detail and turn the story into a wonderful entity. 
 However! The unnecessary and EXTREMELY boring dialogue between the characters KILLED the story! The way they would talk to each other was excruciatingly annoying!! And what is up with the small talk of "shutup" and "shotgun". ARE YOU CHILDREN???? YOU ARE SHADOWHUNTERS FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE! NEPHILIM! BLOOD OF ANGELS!! 
 Trust me anyone with the blood of the angels would never even THINK of "shot-gun!"-ing someone. 
 Now let me tell you something about this Clary. 
 She is BORING, she is unnecessary, whiny, horrible, weak and has absolutely no sense of responsibility. Her mind is DEAD! Her character merely popping up between chapters to either cry or whine or yell or despair! 
 The only thing she is good at is holding her stele and drawing a handful of new runes that magically perform some weird thing-or-another. 
 WHICH goes back to having her new ability talked about as if it were something normal AND NO ONE HAD THE COURTESY TO ASK WHY OR EVEN ANALYZE IT! 
 and Please... you know Jace is your BROTHER.. YOUR BROTHER!!! 
 WHY 
 ON 
 EARTH 
 WOULD 
 YOU STILL 
 HAVE 
 FEELINGS 
 FOR HIM 
 YOU SILLY COW 
 And what is up with Jace? I still don't even know what his ability is? Jumping from buildings? Is he a MONKEY??? 
 Alec and Isabelle? Ummmmm.... Who? What? I wouldn't even remember their characters! 
 MAX is an adorable child and his character was still written better than that of the main characters, although he was a minor! 
 The only characters I was mildly okay with are Magnus and the queen of the Seelie court. By the way, the Seelie Court scene could have been extended and explained in a much better way, but noooooo, I guess the silly dialogue with Clary was much more important. 
 My God I am FUMING because of this horrible story! I expected it to be more well-written than the first book, but I was sadly disappointed!! 
 However, I am now going to continue to Book 3, just because I am mildly interested in Jocelyn and to see how she would finally wake up. 
 I feel myself losing brain cells as I progress into this series more.. Yeesh..