City of Fallen Angels

The Mortal Instruments, Book 4

By: Cassandra Clare

Narrated by: Ed Westwick, Molly C. Quinn

Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

City of Fallen Angels take up where City of Glass left off. With Valentine out of the way, Clary thought she and Jace could finally be together--but when someone starts murdering the Shadowhunters who used to be in Valentine's Circle and leaving their bodies around New York City in a manner designed to destroy the new peace between Downworlders and Shadowhunters, she realizes the past can never be left entirely behind. As the Shadowhunters scramble to find out what's really going on, Jace breaks off all communication with her, refusing to tell her why. Desperate to help him, Clary plunges into solving the mystery, coming ever closer to a secret whose revelation may mend her relationship with Jace--or rip it apart forever. Meanwhile, when Camille Belcourt, the elegant bloodsucker who used to rule New York's vampire clans with an iron fist, returns to the city determined to re-establish her control, a vampire war is born. Only Simon--the Daylighter who everyone wants on their side--can decide the outcome; too bad he's caught up in his own complicated love life and wants nothing to do with Downworld politics! Love, blood, betrayal and revenge: the stakes are higher than ever in City of Fallen Angels.

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Good but too mushy

I liked the book but it got too RomCom. They should have focused on the story and not have so much focus on relationships. Halfway through the book, it felt like 50 Shades of Grey which turned me off to it. It got better at the end but the middle kind of took away from the overall storyline

Not Sure... :-/ let down by narrators

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The narrators.... Hands Down the worst thing about this.

If you’ve listened to books by Cassandra Clare before, how does this one compare?

I enjoyed the story to this book. Seeing Simon's storyline grow was nice as well as the other characters points of view. I wasn't sure how there was going to be a villain or conflict with this one now that Valentine is gone and I was pulled into the storyline for sure and really like the whole Lillith and Jonathan/Sebastian return, eye for an eye, balance of the force thing. But all that said the narration really detracted from the story. Reading it in book form I loved.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

I've listened to all the Mortal Instruments audiobooks and this one was difficult for me. The first books narrator was annoying her voice was borderline valley girl for me it made listening hard to maintain a rhythm to the story. I enjoyed Natalie Moore on book two and three, she had different voices for each character and the flow of the story came out of her well. When I saw there were two narrators for this book I thought, "cool a guy for the guy voices and a girl for the girl voices" but it wasn't like that they changed off every chapter or so and that made listening to the story horrible. Their reading styles were so different and the guys British accent drew from the story. His New York accent for Jace was similar to Rocky and just odd. The female with her childish voice (which never really changed from person to person or storyline) just was hard to listen to and feel engaged into the story like in the past books. Like I said going from the one extreme voice to the other just made this an agonizing listen, very difficult to stay listening through it all.

Any additional comments?

Love the series.

Fantastic series that sucks you in

I loved all of the Mortal Instrument books and enjoyed getting into the story a lot. Cassandra Clare managed to create a world which I could well picture in my mind and I couldn't wait to hear how the story continued.

The readings of all books were very well and brought life into them. I had to get used to a new voice in a new book, but they all did a great job!

Bad Narration

One of my favorite series ruined by terrible narrators, first three books rocked this one sucked.

Grate book. Narration was not done well.

Grate book and I am hooked on the series. But the narration in the book is not as good as some of the others I have listened to.

Twists and Turns

I like the series and I think it is progressively getting better. I recommend sticking with the same narrator/narrators. It is distracting to have different voices, accents and pronunciation of words in the books. Mr. Westwick did a wonderful job. I like the accents. Mrs. also did a wonderful job but I think she should listen to the previous female readers. It will help keep some consistency.

Good job and great books.

Great story

I love this series, I started reading it after seeing the movie I was a little surprised by the ages of the main characters. I really expected them to be in their 20's. The characters express wisdom beyond the age they are portrayed. Overall a great read

The Good and The Bad...

I really love these novels and have listened to each of them on Audible. This is more a review of the narrators. I love Ed Westwick's narration of Simon! But I really really dislike Molly C. Quinn's narration. Period. Her voice is adenoidal at some points and croaky at others. It's almost like she was trying out different voices for each chapter. I found her narration cacophonous and it also ruined the story for me. There were pronunciation differences between these narrators and those of the previous books... Every time I heard the narrators say "Idris" I wanted to yell. I like the other pronunciation better. Great book, not so great narration.

Narrators need to go!

Great story in the series but the narration leaves a bit to be desired! Can't you stick with one for the entire series? These two butcher names and locations throughout!

Could be a solid 4 stars if not lacking in part on the narrators attempts at accents without feeling.

ther ones before were way better

What did you like best about City of Fallen Angels? What did you like least?

the story continues but is getting slowed down with too much lack of progress with Clarie & Jace.. get on with it already...The change in narrators was not needed & not as good.. Bring back Natalie Moore.

Would you be willing to try another book from Cassandra Clare? Why or why not?

Not with these narrators.

What didn’t you like about Ed Westwick and Molly C. Quinn ’s performance?

I did not. Ed is hard to understand & Molly sounds like a valley girl from Ca.

Did City of Fallen Angels inspire you to do anything?

Hope for the end...

Any additional comments?

Moved on to Allegiant!!!