Immediately when the book arrived in the mail at my home, I have anything stand and left and started reading. Within days I had it then by and was thrilled!
It's very emotional and tense!
The author understands it well work out their characters and breathe life into them so that they look like real people. You actually learn only as much as the characters and that's what makes the novel so exciting. Who is Sebastian really I had indeed a little faster than Clary and Jace out, but that did not take anything from the voltage.
The real villain Valentine is not just as undecided as a villain, as is the case in several other novels, but the author shows skillfully his reasons and feelings.
Stylistically, the novel has been some "mistakes", so the author repeated partially or is somewhat paradoxical, but on the whole it has a good writing style: Very compelling and often humorous, but also passages that thought (philosophy) stimulate.
Although the novel takes place in a fantasy world, but everything is as realistic as it could really happen or have happened. which lies mainly in the conflict of Downworldern and shadow hunters who could be transferred to our world.
Especially the end of the novel I liked because it was not simply just a bloody Gemetztel ...
The English language is very good to understand, even for those who can not yet much English!
I highly recommend this book like any fantasy, highly recommend, you will not regret it, and finally the original is still better than the translation!