First of all, I would like to say that I only read this book because I couldn't find anything else. I read all of the popular YA books the internet could offer. I read the Clockwork Angel books, and they seemed awesome. I wasn't planning to read this book, but I just had to. 
 This book was okay. That's pretty much it. Clary was kind of stupid to me, Jace annoyed me, Simon seemed much like the "only character that can redeem this book but gets sadly put in the background a bit" guy. :spoiler: The Valentine problem could have been solved within chapters if there weren't so many filler events in order to make the book longer. The two big fat stars are there because of Simon, probably the only character that I liked. He made me like the book just a little bit. :spoiler: It was so sad to see him heart broken by Clary that chapter!