City of Bones
Books | Juvenile Fiction / Horror
3.9
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Cassandra Clare
Don’t miss The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, now a major motion picture. Discover this first installment of the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and “prepare to be hooked” (Entertainment Weekly).Enter the world of the Shadowhunters in this special edition of the New York Times bestselling City of Bones, complete with gorgeous cover art from the movie. 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. And she’s more than a little startled when the body disappears into thin air. Soon Clary is introduced to the world of the Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of warriors dedicated to driving demons out of our world and back to their own. And Clary is introduced with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a grotesque monster. How could a mere human survive such an attack and kill a demon? The Shadowhunters would like to know…
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Author
Cassandra Clare
Pages
528
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2013-07-09
ISBN
1442485388 9781442485389
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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."
Anna
"I flew through this book today and honestly it was crazy and action packed until the end.
Also no way was I teased like that with a plot twist at the end LOL"
Gabby Lucas
"This was a really good book I loved the show shadow hunters and was excited to read the books it's based on. I love Jace and clarys bond and I can't wait to dive into Cassandra clairs world."
Sunflower
"This one was my favorite book of the whole series because it starts out with her finding out that what she is and it's just so mesmerizing I love it"
Brandi Manning
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