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City of Lost Souls

The Mortal Instruments Book 5

Cassandra Clare

Ages 14–18

Readers rate it 3.9 (631 on Hardcover)

544 pages · Released May 8, 2012

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What's inside

High confidence

What it offers

Educational value

A note for parents

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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From the publisher

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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  • Juvenile Fiction
  • Diverse Characters
  • Plot driven
  • Strong Character Development
  • Loveable Characters
  • Unloveable Characters
  • A mix driven
  • Weak Character Development
  • Character driven
  • Adventurous
  • dark
  • tense

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ISBN 9781442416864 · Simon and Schuster