City of Lost Souls
The Mortal Instruments Book 5
Readers rate it 3.9 (631 on Hardcover)
544 pages · Released May 8, 2012 · Simon and Schuster
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City of Lost Souls is the fifth book in The Mortal Instruments series and continues the dark urban fantasy with escalating stakes and emotional complexity. The narrative involves significant violence, demonic threats, and morally gray situations, including mind control and emotional manipulation, making it best suited for older teens. Core themes of loyalty, love, and sacrifice are strong, but the book's emotional intensity and darker plot elements require maturity to process.
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When Jace vanishes with Sebastian, Clary and the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world and Clary infiltrates the group planning the world's destruction. When Jace vanishes with Sebastian, Clary and the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world and Clary infiltrates the group planning the world's destruction.
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- tense
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ISBN 9781442416864 · Simon and Schuster