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Okay so I have been spending the last few days Not Studying French. Instead I am trying to figure out how to stick magic into the US Civil War!

Mostly this has been unsuccessful because the more I think of the implications of them having magic the more I realize that the history would totally have twisted and possibly ended out differently and would slavery have still happened with magic? How far back does the magic go? Did it just suddenly start popping up in select people over the country right about when Lincoln became president and South Carolina went 'SECESSION TIME NAO'? How did they adjust to the new tactics? If the slaves had magic did they stage some hardcore rebellion a la Nate Turner and influence the course of the war? Or let's suppose magic's been around for awhile. Did it develop differently on the different continents? Is it tied to rituals or not? Did the North somehow industrialize magic?

And I kept going on in this vein and trying to make it all make sense and eventually I gave up and decided I want magical cities instead. Because at least I know Toronto better then I know Civil War era USA.

City of Glass thoughts, not dignified enough to be called a review

Oh City of Glass. First you sucked and then Alec and Magnus Bane had a scene together and suddenly you started getting better. Coincidence? I think NOT.

Which begs the question, WHY did I not get more Alec? Or more Magnus Bane? Or more both? Because while Clary did manage to redeem herself towards the end of the book (why were you so boring initially Clary? Why?) and I transitioned from 'eww Jace, what a lame Edward-like individual' to 'what did you DO Jace, how is it possible that I like you now?' Alec and Magnus still managed to be about a hundred times more awesome in the grand total of three scenes they had together. Sorry.

( Cut because just because I think it doesn't count as a spoiler if you can see it from a hundred pages away doesn't mean everyone thinks so. )

The whole book is kind of insanely predictable but after the first 200 pages that becomes less annoying (For real guys. The magic of Magnus and Alec: making literary flaws less irritating since 2007!). I kept reading unsurprised but still wanting to keep going. If you're willing to wait that long for it to get actually interesting it's a decent read. About a B overall.