For me, love triangles are fabulous themes for character development because usually at a love triangle if you do it right, the two points of the love triangles you will have two choices that you can make.
fantastic
unreal
unbelievable
I will say a character who really only appears in the third book, although his appearance is sort of foreshadowed in the earlier books.
promised
signaled
implied
This is the first book in which he made his appearance, but my cover designer felt that his appearance was spectacular enough and he won the cover.
dramatic
good
striking
He is someone that Clary meets when she travels there, who helps her with her quest to find something that will save her mother.
promise
enterprise
search
The final question for you and this is asked with complete sincerity. Is it true you collect the tears of your readers?
truth
wholeheartedness
sentiment
I just have to sprinkle them (the tears) on me every morning.
pepper
water
spray
Why are you torturing us with this, uh, you know, romance of Clary and Jace, with these other unanswered questions
worrying
tormenting
abusing
I don’t enjoy the suffering of my readers, but I have always been a reader who, you know, reads books and get extremely invested in them and suffers when bad things happen to the characters.
hardship
pain
annoyance
That also compounds my enjoyment when the book is resolved in a satisfactory way. Without the pain, you don’t get that happiness.
settled
concluded
figured out
That also compounds my enjoyment when the book is resolved in a satisfactory way. Without the pain, you don’t get that happiness.
pleasant
all right
acceptable
You can mail all your letters of complaint to Holly.