3.5 stars. 
 I LOVED this series. Loved it! But this book... Well really this last half of the series... was less. We all know though, to have more books about our beloved characters, they have to have bad things happen to them, so I guess this is what we get. It wasn't awful. But it wasn't exactly what I was expecting either. On to the story. 
 (view spoiler)[I loved how BA Clary became. She points out several times how much she and Jace changed and her changes were welcome. Jace... Jace was the same but different. I think I liked the Jace at the end of the book better than the Jace at the beginning. 
 I loved how she tied together The Infernal Devices and The Dark Artifices, but I also hate it. I loved seeing Jem and Tessa and finally learning how Jem became mortal. But the stuff with Emma and Jules... It was a LOT of setup for TDA and it kind of put me off. I would probably read the series, but at the same time, I don't like feeling like I HAVE to. 
 I loved that Magnus wrote down his stories for Alec (which I'm assuming would be the Bane Chronicles.) Loved that they got back together! I heart Malec. 
 At the end, I felt like the whole Simon thing was a cop out. It was a very similar thing to Breaking Dawn and I hated it then too. You have this awesome way to make your characters grow... and you can't pull the trigger. It should have been enough for them to know he was actually alive. Maybe have them meet down the road in 10 years... and see if he has any recollection, ala Champion. I mean, I was super sad for Izzy, but still. 
 The last thing that was a little off to me... After Jace loses the Heavenly Fire... he and Clary have sexy times, but he had NO WAY of knowing he'd be able to touch her... and yet he has a condom in his pocket? I'm all for safe sex, but it seems a little far fetched. 
 Overall, it was good, but I think it could have ended with the last part of this epilogue in CoG and we get some glimpses though gossip or something in TDA instead. That alone, the promise of hearing even a shred of gossip of all my beloved characters from this series, would have made me pick up TDA, no tons of setup in COHF needed. (hide spoiler)]