City of Lost Souls

Mortal Instruments, Book 5

By: Cassandra Clare

Narrated by: Molly C. Quinn

Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

The New York Times best-selling Mortal Instruments continues - and so do the thrills and danger for Jace, Clary, and Simon.

Can the lost be reclaimed? What price is too high to pay for love? Who can be trusted when sin and salvation collide?

Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series.

©2012 Cassandra Claire, LLC. (P)2012 Simon & Schuster

Such a great series

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

This is the series that has me the most impatient for the next book to come out. The storey is so complete and the characters so well developed, they are like th real people. Once again Cassandra Clare has done it, has written a book that has left me anxious for the next one.

Any additional comments?

Her editor should have caught the fact that she says incredulously about nine million times.

Fantastic series that makes you addictive

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!

the narrator sounds young, which is okay

The young voice of the narrartor worked for the teens thoughts of the story, but was eh for the adults. reminded me when i read the first three books in high school though!

slower than the rest of the series

struggled to finish this one as it was difficult to keep my attention on the story

So much better then the last book!

I can’t believe I just have just one more book of this part of the story this is getting pretty exciting!! Looking forward to book 6!!

A bit better than the last.

You could play a drinking game with the word incredulous, as many times as it shows up in these books expecially this one. Narration was a little better but not as good as books 1-3.

Love these books!

Each book is a new adventure I look forward to! I tell everyone that likes books about magic and wonder to pick them up!

I love these stories

I love the series the narrator is horrible for 4 and 5. The way she read it really took me out of the story.

Awful narrator

I think this is one of the best books in the series, but Molly Quinn makes listening to it almost unbearable.

Molly is getting better...

Would you listen to City of Lost Souls again? Why?

Possibly, if enough time passed. I don't usually listen to most books twice.

What other book might you compare City of Lost Souls to and why?

I'd only compare it to others in the series.

Have you listened to any of Molly C. Quinn’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I have listened to Molly before and I think she's improving. I like her better when she reads the entire book.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

That isn't possible for me, so I'd have to answer no. I occasionally drive a couple of hours at a time and I would be pleased to listen to this book for several hours straight.

Any additional comments?

Molly could do with a little more practice separating the sounds of different character's voices. Unfortunately, writers are being encouraged to reduce the number of dialogue tags--he said, she said, etc--and that makes listening to a book more of a challenge if the reader cannot manage to make each characters' voices unique. I think Molly is up to it but needs a little more practice. She does well on the unusual characters-demons, for example. It's just the young people that seem to stump her. She's miles better than Wil Wheaton, though I don't know if that is any consolation to her.