I am so glad to be done with this book. I've now read the first three books in this series and I'll be honest, I don't like Clary. Never liked her in the first book, still don't like her now. What's keeping me going is Magnus, Alec and the other secondary characters to Clary and Jace and the simple fact that I don't like to let a book beat me. 
 I don't know what it is, there's just something about this series I don't like. I've had to fight my way through each book. I will say once I hit Part Three (Chapter 16) then I got into the book and read through it easily enough. But I dreaded picking up this book. It just wasn't exciting to me, it didn't grab me and I have a hard time believing in the world sometimes. 
 One of the biggest disappointments I had in this book was when (view spoiler)[Valentine died. By having a hole blown through his chest by Raziel (hide spoiler)] it just seemed so anticlimactic and it left me with a "really? Is that really how that is ending? Oh...okay...I guess..." I didn't buy it then and I still don't buy it now. It just seemed so lackluster. The pages dragged on and it seemed like there were scenes that didn't really need to be written (view spoiler)[ plus, what was the point of Max's death?! Honestly, there wasn't a reason for it. He didn't catch Sebastian doing anything really, he was just a little boy and frankly his death I think was just a ploy to get us to feel emotionally. But in reality it just made me role my eyes. If you have a character die, have them die for a reason. Not just because you think it'll be sad. (hide spoiler)] 
 So if I really didn't like it that much why write a review? To let those of you that are like me, and haven't fallen in love with the Mortal Instruments, that they aren't alone and that yes, there are others out there that share your mutual feeling of "meh" when it comes to City of Glass.