City of Bones
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy
4.2
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Cassandra Clare
Discover this first installment of the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and “prepare to be hooked” (Entertainment Weekly).When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing -- not even a smear of blood -- to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know... Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare's ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end.
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Author
Cassandra Clare
Pages
512
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2009-04-14
ISBN
1416995757 9781416995753
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"*WARNING THIS REVIEW WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS*
This is not going to be a good series for me lol. I absolutely love her Infernal Devices trilogy and The Last Hours trilogy, those are the best written books I've read. And I can definitely say that Cassandra Clares writing improved drastically. This book was not that intriguing to me, at first it was within the 100 or so pages in the beginning. But then it got overly descriptive and it was kind of unnecessary to have. Sometimes, and I'm not sure if the editor didn't catch this or they just didn't care, some things would be said twice or talked about again as if they just didn't talk about it. That was annoying. The storyline, at least for me, was all over the place. The fact that they're were so much fighting between everyone and not alot was getting done, it felt like it was dragging. The main character, Clary, was annoying 🙄. She seemed like a whiney, "I want what I want now" teenager, and I kind of just wanted to slap her lol. Sometimes she would point out the obvious and still question it or she would be like "I know the answer before he even says it. I know he's going to say my mother did it..." and then proceeds to act shocked and hurt by the revelation. Jace on the other hand, I loved. He gives me the feeling of Will and James Herondale. The rest of the characters felt like they blended in with background. Having the "betrayal" by Hodge and Dorothea revealed wasn't really a "twist" for me. I basically saw everything coming. ASIDE FROM CLARY AND JACE BEING SIBLINGS!!! Although I should've seen it coming lol. I really hope it's not true, but I guess we'll see. I did watch the movie a while back and it was so bad that I fast-forwarded almost half the movie lol. Also, I love seeing Magnus Bane, I hope he stays in this storyline. Anyways, it's not going good so far, I only have the first 3 books in this series and I'm hoping that's all I need in order to read the Dark Artifices, of someone knows please tell me lol."
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