

I actually liked Simon throughout The Mortal Instruments, but actually being with him through a book really helped me relate to him. First of all, I love that this was based on Simon, but included a wide arc of characters. I loved it, and I can’t imagine the Shadowhunter world without it now. This was one of those books I didn’t know I needed. At least Simon is trained in weaponry-even if it’s only from hours of playing D&D. And that differences-like being a former vampire-are greatly looked down upon. Like the fact that non-Shadowhunter students have to live in the basement. But the Academy is a Shadowhunter institution, which means it has some problems. So when the Shadowhunter Academy reopens, Simon throws himself into this new world of demon-hunting, determined to find himself again. And when Clary and Isabelle look at him, expecting him to be a man he doesn’t remember…Simon can’t take it. He knows he was friends with Clary, and that he convinced the total goddess Isabelle Lightwood to go out with him…but he doesn’t know how. But the events of City of Heavenly Fireleft him stripped of his memories, and Simon isn’t sure who he is anymore.

Simon Lewis has been a human and a vampire, and now he is becoming a Shadowhunter.
