Cassandra Clare teases ‘saddest happy ending’ for ‘City of Heavenly Fire’
We all know that Cassandra Clare has finished writing City of Heavenly Fire – the sixth and last installment in her The Mortal Instruments series – and that she is busy editing it right now. Today she took to Twitter to tweet the following:
What do you think of this tweet? How can a happy ending be sad? Sound off in the comments!
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Okay well i’ just going to assume the worst and say that Clary and Jace both died in each other’s arms during battle.
I think Cassie implied in an interview jace lives. I imagine clary does
What interview? Because I’m seriously worried for both of them…
Too
Hey Tirra, it was some interview she did when talking about dark artifices. she says that he was in it
I hope not, but that truly would be a sad happy ending
how about NO
Maybe her assistant just meant it was sad that the series was finished, but it had a happy ending? Fingers crossed that’s what she meant!!
How could there be a sadder happy ending than Clockwork Princess?
that is so true.. but this tweet still makes me nervous
I cried. I so badly didn’t want Will to die, and the when she was at Magnus’, I couldn’t deal. And Jem will die one day too.
ALLEGIANT, bitch please 😉
Damn straight! High five fellow Divergent ✋
I’m curious to read the divergent series!
I swear to God if she pulls a Mockingjay or Allegiant I give up. I simply give up.
Well she wouldnt possibly know the ending for Allegiant if she kills one of her main characters it will just be coincidence!
Truth.
You read my mind
…I thought last book out of that series has already been released? Why wouldn’t she know the ending??
I expect it will be a lot like Mockingjay. Lots of main characters we know and love will die or be gone, and we will be left with our protaganist couple picking up the pieces. I found Mockingjay to be a very moving, thought-provoking, and realistic ending, completely appropriate for the characters and themes of the series. Not all great endings are happy ever after.
Oh god, all those stories that breaks my heart~!
I could actually accept Jace’s and Clary’s death if they would die together, but if only one dies my heart will break.
literally me.
I agree!
Oh dear god! Ok so I think clave could survive but it’s still sad due to other deaths
I just CAN’T wait for the next book… I.just.can’t. I see all those sneak peek’s and I die a little bit inside every time…
I’m scared, now…..
Magnus, Simon, and Alec if any of those three people die I will enter eternal sadness. Sorry to say I don’t care about anyone else’s death. But I really need Magnus alive to keep up his record of being in all of Cassie’s books.
Same!
I dont care if Jace or Clary die, but i will if Cassandra splits Malec an even more if she kills one of them 😦 Please dont Cassie, im begging you D´:
Yes I need neither of them to die and to GET BACK TOGETHER BY THE ANGEL.
Honestly I am really really really worried! I saw the tweet and like freaked.
Jace is going to die i knew it! actually i`ll be happy if Jace dies they guy has been through a lot and the ebst way to defeat Evil is sacrificing himself!
No!! I don’t want it to have any sort of sad ending!! These books are so great, they deserve the most perfect ending possible 😀
It should be happy and satisfying, but not overly perfect or it will seem cheesy.
Many perfect endings to the greatest books ever written are sad. It is one of the deepest emotions of the human experience.
I am so nervous!! I wanna read it so bad, but I don’t, but I dooooooo!!!
Nope.
Champion, the final book of the Legend trilogy, is also a beautiful logical sad happy ending…
BY THE ANGEL! This makes me SOOOO nervous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As long as it has some logic I will be okay with it. None of that Allegiant nonsense.
Guys, please be considerate and do not allude to endings from other book series here! Thank you!
Yesss please!! I haven’t read any books in Veronica Roth’s trilogy, but I just bought them and will begin them shortly, so I’d appreciate not accidentally reading anything about the third book!
Impossible. The saddest happy ending was Dollhouse, obviously.
I’m scared!
have you thought that she means she is sad that the book has ended? it has a happy ending but she is sad it is all over ?
OMG I hope so! I hope that she is just teasing us!
I was just getting ready to say that. Think about it. I’m sure it’s a happy ending hence the happy ending part but the series is over hence the sad part.
I hope none of them turn into silent brothers like in Clockwork Princess. that made me really really really upset.
Okay if Malec dies my life will be in sorrow and please don’t talk about the Divergent series I’m on Insurgent and I would like to find out what happens on my own without spoilers. The reason for that was because I had gotten spoilers for Beautiful Redemption and another book and I was really mad.
if malec dies, my life will end, i will be in a literary mourning for the rest of my life and i wont be able to read a new book never again D:
WTF
I can’t breathe………………
Maybe her mom dies and Clary and Jace do get married after the death of her mother.
how can a happy ending be sad and a sad ending be happy?!?!
I guess I can add CoHF to my list of depressing end books…
Allegiant
Clockwork Princess
Mockingjay
City of Heavenly Fire
I’m really scared but really excited to find out what happens!!!! 😯😳😁 I just hope sabastion doesn’t die cause I feel sorry for him 😔
What!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope sabastion dies on hell
you wrote his name wrong, it’s Sebastian
Ok. Cassandra, you will kill me D’: .
Estoy muy ansiosa por leer el libro ya. Espero que salga como espero , aunque , bueno , también espero que me sorprendas. I HOPE SABASTIAN BECOME A GOOD PERSON AND HE IS STILL ALIVE.
ALSO, I HOPE MAGNUS ACCEPT ALEC AGAIN <33 xd
Same I love Malec
I am the only one who thinks that “saddest happy ending” means “calry and jace live, the others die?”
Ok I’ve been meaning to say this but if we’re going to have a somewhat or so called sad/happy ending lets at least do it the deathly hallows way have most of the principle characters live and the bad guy drop dead and then have an epilogue where everyone well at least the kids are all grown up and have families that would make me happy. Ok let’s have COHF have a deathly hallows risqué finale bc most of the good guys live 🙂 ok plain and simple or they will face the wrath of our fandom
Omg yea I hope that also!
I bet Simon dies to save Clary.
That would be so sad
The one and only thing I know is that I will die before I will have readen CoFH.
Seriously peeps for real for real if we really want to have mortal instruments go out with a bang and make it have a really groundbreaking epic climatic finale like the best of the best and at some point draw in some more new fans to give it some more much needed recognition lets do it the “Harry potter” way event though deathly hallows was the most mature and dramatic and emotionally driven installment of the saga it still had a very concrete and satisfying climax most of our principle characters were able to beat the odds and moved on but felt like something was achieved and that there was a battle worth fighting for and worth the pain along the way and give I
Us something to cheer for and feel that sense of fulfillment and triumph I mean that’s what makes a great story heck even the last movie did it justice but does it make sense. Isn’t that what we want after all hopefully that’s what Cassandra has in mind and that teases are what they are “teases”.
Just as long as Simon doesn’t die….he’s the best, and none of the things that happened were his fault, per se….it was clary who dragged him into the Shadow World….I would never forgive clary if simon dies….I just hope that cassie is not stupid like veronica roth. I wouldn’t want to see her butcher a perfect series by killing all her characters just for media attention
I hope that clary jace and izzy don’t die.I don’t wanna deal with a bad end. the TID was sad enough for me.
In a way i hope that they make all the movies to this series because when the last book comes out, i’m not going to be fully ready for their story to end. I mean who can get enough of Sizzy, Clace adn malec..
Oh hurry up! I can’t any longer lol
His name does not deserve to be spelt correctly
WHAAAT?! OH SHE MEANS SADDEST BECAUSE IT ENDED AND HAPPIY BECAUSE IT ENDED HAPPILY
THAT’S IT.
THAT’S IT.
EVERYTHING’S GOING TO BE OKAYY
See I read this on twitter and um like freaked. It’s like waiting for death at your doorstep.
the only characters that I actually care about are Magnus, Simon, Isabelle and maybe Jace, other than that I don’t really what happens to anyone else. Of course I’ll be sad if someone dies but I won’t be devastated unless it’s one of these characters.
If you care for Magnus you should really start caring for Alec, because if Alec dies or something bad happens to him then it would kill Magnus.
I’m so excited yet so nervous to read this. These snippets are making me even more nervous for the book, and I Freaked when I saw this! Clockwork Princess was the saddest yet at the same time kinda happy ending ever, and the ending to CoHF will more than likely top that. In a perfect world, I’d like Sebastain to die and everyone else to live, but it’s not so I’m preparing myself for some sad deaths 😦
Well if you give some thought to it… it says the saddest happy ending. Not the happiest sad ending. A happy sad ending would be what someone said previously up there in the comments, Jace and Clary dying in each others arms. Like the notebook. Now, I do think it could be something like The Hunger Games series, as some of you mentioned; a sad happy ending. They ended up together, forever, but lost everyone they loved. Since the main aspect that threads the story together is the intimacy between Jace and Clary (I’m not saying the other characters are not important, but more that Jace & Clary are mainly focused on) and 97% of TMI’s readers must be in love with their love. Cassandra knows that; just as Suzanne Collins knew. If she made Peeta die and Katniss live, or vise versa, there’d be an uproar in the fan base that wouldn’t make the fans feel happy and that’d just be tragic. (But an excellent book written in literary terms, to get such a large amount of people to feel something so strong about a book). I hope to God they don’t die in eachother’s arms, I hope they end up living… I’ve become so engrossed in the story in these books that Jace and Clary, as nuts as this sounds, have become my heroes and inspirations for when I feel down or lonely. And thinking of the intimacy in their relationship, it makes me feel that little butterfly feeling in my belly that gives me hope, it’d kill me to know they die… but then again, if it happens, it happens, and it will be part of the beautiful story. I don’t believe Cassie would kill off just one character, though. That’s unlike the style of the story… Agh. This post has really gotten me in my feelings. I feel like I’m going through a breakup. With a book. ugh