• City of Ashes

  • The Mortal Instruments, Book Two
  • By: Cassandra Clare
  • Narrated by: Natalie Moore
  • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (9,880 ratings)

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City of Ashes

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

Clary Fray just wants her life to go back to normal - but that turns out to be impossible. For one thing, her mother is still in the hospital, in a mysterious coma. For another, she and her brother, Jace, have fallen under a cloud of suspicion now that the Shadowhunter world knows that Valentine is still alive - and that Jace and Clary are his son and daughter. Not to mention that someone in New York is killing Downworlders and draining their blood, creating a climate of suspicion that sends Downworld Manhattan to the brink of civil war.

When the Silent Brothers are murdered and the second of the Mortal Instruments, the Sword of Souls, is stolen, the terrifying Inquisitor is dispatched from Idris to investigate. She clearly harbors a personal grudge against Jace, and she drives a wedge between him and his adoptive family. When Clary's romance with her best friend, Simon, starts to heat up, Jace feels abandoned. But has he, as the Inquisitor accuses, joined up with his father?

Then Simon is turned into a vampire and kidnapped by Valentine, who intends to sacrifice him as part of a bloody ritual that will make the Mortal Instruments his own forever. Jace knows he needs to save Simon's life, for Clary's sake. But what if he's too late? What if Valentine has already made the Mortal Instruments his own?

©2008 Cassandra Claire, LLC (P)2008 Simon and Schuster, Inc.

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absolutely loved this book; how ever I am not fond of this particular narrator though

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Liked it.

I could have done without the love triangle come up with the story itself was good enough to keep going. I'm looking forward to book 3!

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I love this book. 3 read, 1st audio booking.

this is book 2 and the narrator didn't know that half the characters were British....

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As an adult now, listening to the books makes it it easier to enjoy all the stories I enjoyed in my youth, and being able to see them in a different view.

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Great book, terrible narrator

I love this book. TMI is a forever favorite. But this narrator? Awful.
I'm not sold on any aspect of her performance but what got me to write this review was her take on Magnus. Her reading of his dialogue was genuinely offensive. What was she thinking?

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Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes

The first book in this series was enjoyable. It’s a YA novel and you can tell in the writing, though the narration made it a little less obvious (I listened to it in Audio form). However, there were SEVERAL moments in this book that strongly reminded me of Twilight. The heroine spends parts of the book blaming herself for everything, acting oblivious to obvious danger (because she blames herself and feels so much angst that she ignores common sense), and several of the other characters also seem to overlook VERY obvious situations. I found that profoundly annoying and also thought there was a lot more of it in this book than the first.
The most interesting part of the book was the history of the Shadowhunters and their weapons and runes. We also get to meet actual Shadowhunter adults in the book, and while they were significantly more incompetent than a bunch of teenagers (not surprising for a YA novel), they brought some interesting angst that wasn’t a love triangle.
I enjoyed this book, but less than the first one. Interested to see how I feel about the next one!

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Good book

Pretty good story. I’ve read this book before and it was a bit confusing when the author switches perspectives. This narrator made it easier to follow and understand. The narrator makes the characters seem immature but they are 16 and up in the story. There was some questionable topics like brother and sister loving each other. There’s also a 17 year old and 19 year old warlock(really a couple hundred years old) I would probably read it again.

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great book boring va

loved the book. the va didn't do anywhere near as good as the one who did the book before but still did decent

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Just pick one reader

I wish there was just one person that was reading all of the books. The first book was fine and now the second book the person that is reading isn’t matching the accents that the reader of the first book had done 😡😡😡 it’s super annoying

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love

absolutely love the story... it's an amazing series,I look forward to continuing the entire series.

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