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  • City of Ashes

  • Mortal Instruments, Book 2
  • By: Cassandra Clare
  • Narrated by: Natalie Moore
  • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (290 ratings)

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City of Ashes

By: Cassandra Clare
Narrated by: Natalie Moore
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Publisher's Summary

With her mother in a coma and her father hell-bent on destroying the world, Clary Fray is dragged deeper into New York City's terrifying underworld of werewolves, demons, and the mysterious Shadowhunters. Discovering the truth about her past was only the beginning. Now the fate of the world rests on Clary's shoulders, but can she master her new-found powers and control her feelings for a boy who can never be hers?

©2008 Cassandra Clare (P)2010 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Critic Reviews

"Fans of...Buffy the Vampire Slayer will instantly fall for this series." ( Publishers Weekly)
"A gorgeous fantasty that's so good, it's dangerous." (Holly Black)

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Loving this series!

Loving this series so far, the emotional turmoil is killing me though! Can't wait for the next book!

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Great book two

I found it a little hard at the beginning so fast forward until I came to the city of ashes and then from there I felt more comfortable with the story that it continued with the first one

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continued journey.

I'm caught not sure why or how. this series has me hooked. Same story same flow a little slow in sections.

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Loved it

Loved this. Cassandra Clare wrote an awesome series and Natalie Moore did an awesome reading of this book.

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City of Ashes

Wow! I must admit, this book absolutely kicked off from where the first one finished and raised the bar multiple levels! I had so much fun with this one!

The number of twists and turns in this book… the emotional impact of some seriously challenging situations and the roller coaster of feelings set up an epic series of events. Cassandra Clare has done an amazing job at keeping us in the edge of our seats, just when we thought Clarry and Jase were meant to be… we are hit right between the eyes with them being brother and sister, both siblings of the evil Valentine! Or are they? Cassandra does an incredible job in her writing with teasing us just enough to make us question whether Jase and Clarry are really related, or is there more than meets the eye?

It would appear that the love triangle with Simon has finally come to an end, which is much better than the outcome we thought had come to pass of Simon’s death! And what an amazing cliffhanger we were left on, an old friend of Jocelyn, Clarry’s mum, has returned with the supposed cure for Jocelyn’s sleep, and the little fact that valentine didn’t do this to her, she did it to herself! Incredible!

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Great book

The narrator for this book was better than the first one, great voice characterisation and flow.
Great series of books, am enjoying listening to them!

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One of my favourite series

I can’t fault this as I love the characters and the world building. I love anything even hinting at angels

Thanks s Carissa for a great read and reread I think this is my fourth time through 🤍🤎💙💚💜🧡❤️💛🩵🩷🩶🖤

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the story got very boring and repetetive.

main characters constantly whining and repeating plots . this is absolutely a children to teen book

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