The second book in The Mortal Instruments series failed to capture me at all. I actually kind of hate Jace, which is odd since I usually love a snarky bad body. Also, can have I some more similes, please? I don't think this book has enough of them. 
 Did The Infernal Devices have writing like this? I must have been so smitten with Will and Jem that I missed it. I also can't get over the fact that Clare mentioned Alec and Jace were parabatai and then never mentioned it again (so far). 
 And can we please stop having so much exposition via dialogue? At times this felt like I was watching a bad scifi movie. 
 And despite all of these complaints, I still picked up the third book. Glutton for punishment.