City Of Bones - Cassandra Clare
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Re: City Of Bones - Cassandra Clare
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There were things I liked and disliked, of course.
I love Clary's innocent/not so innocent image along with her fiery red hair. I did find the demons to be a bit much. I feel they should've been a little more "realistic."
I do think the ages of the characters should've been in the late teens/early twenties range.
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i just had a question, maybe this is already like a known fact or something but was rereading the book and i noticed that clary has alot of dreams that kinda predict the future. For example when shes in the infirmary she has dreams of her mom being in a hospital bed unconcious, jace with angel wings and simon with crosses burned into his hands. and then later in her dream jace says something abput simon not being allowed into a place bc it was "for the living." and all these dreams make sense since well her mom does become unconscious, simon "dies" and jace is kinda an angel. so idk im just trying to confirm that she does see the future in her dreams, or if this is just like the authors way of forshadowing or something
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I admit that it was a little hard to follow with the characters being so young and living such accelerated lives but there is a back story explaining that and overall I loved everything about this world! Enough to want to be in it!
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The prequel series "The Infernal Devices " is also good I highly recommend reading those if you haven't already. If I'm not mistaken I think she wrote a novella for Magnus Bane? I haven't read that one yet but it's definitely on the to-do list.
As for the tv show, I'm very hesitant to watch it considering the movie was such a letdown for me (If it weren't for the beautiful Jonathon Rhys Myers I probably would have thrown my popcorn at the screen and stomped out of the theater. Because I'm mature like that).
PS- she's going to be at the Chicago Bookcon this year and I'm only having a panic attack everyday about it
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I felt exactly the same way. And I wanted to like it. I love Hunger Games, Divergent, etc. so I'm not sure where this book lost me. Maybe it was the hype? I won't be continuing the series.jlg wrote:I tried, I really did, to like this book. I don't know if I'm just too old for young adult literature now or what, but I found it predictable and I kept putting it down and not going back to it for months at a time. It was so formulaic. Girl meets boy she instantly dislikes although he's devastatingly handsome. Girl gets pulled into a world she never imagined could exist and finds out she was actually born into it/meant to be there. Girl and boy gradually fall in love. Meh. Maybe I'll like the movie, but I had to give the book to my little sister because I was over it halfway through. I'm looking for something a little more original and surprising.
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THE REVIEW
Alright, so I really was in the mood to start a series and since my boyfriend had bought me the first 3 books of this series for Christmas, I had decided to give it a try. If you’re going to read this series you can’t expect something as amazing as the Harry Potter, or The Hunger Games, or not even the Divergent series. I would recommend all three of those before I would recommend the Mortal Instruments series. That being said, however, I did enjoy it - I will keep reading, I just didn’t love it.
I have an extremely hard time enjoying a series if I dislike the main character. This was probably the biggest issue for me with this book. Clary annoyed me, she acted like a menopausal teenager. I understand that she is a teenager, but the whole story would have been much more enjoyable if Cassandra Clare had made her main characters a few years older – young adults would have been able to handle the events of this book much better. When the author uses the descriptors of “Clary snapped” every 10 pages or so, I couldn’t help but roll my eyes…Especially since Clary seemed to “snap” at people at the most random and ridiculous times for stuff that seemed so trivial. Also, it wasn’t until I finished reading the book that I realized that Clary is useless. She does something useful to help in her own quest maybe once or twice. The rest of the time, it is her allies that do all of the work while she just stands by and watches…
The plot line itself was enjoyable, although the book seems to end abruptly and randomly. It doesn’t really end on much of a cliff hanger or with any closure…readers are just left hanging there, with nothing. Some of the plot line is extremely corny, as is some of the writing. Multiple times, there were similes that came up that did not make sense, that were not necessary, or that were just brutal – it seemed like Clare just couldn’t think of a better descriptor and wrote the first thing that came to mind, when she could have just dropped the similes and described things for what they were. A lot of the dialogue is also cheesy, but we have to keep in mind that this is a young adult novel so I did ask for it a bit when I decided to read this book.
Favourite passage:
This book wasn’t a literary masterpiece. There weren’t any passages that stuck out to me as being extremely well written or that made me think. In fact, for most of the book the only passage I had in mind was some lame joke that Jace makes that made me smile (not even laugh, just smile). But near the end of the book this passage came up and it’s the only time that this book made me get somewhat emotional – when Luke is in trouble and we get a little scared for him. The entire book I kept telling myself that Luke seemed like Clary’s father figure and it is at this moment that Clary realizes it.She thought of Luke, Luke pushing her on the swings when she was five years old, higher, always higher; Luke at her graduation from middle school, camera clicking away like a proud father’s; Luke sorting through each box of books as it arrived at his store, looking for anything she might like and putting it aside. Luke lifting her up to pull apples down from the trees near his farmhouse.
Ending with a few positive notes:
[*]While Jace’s sarcasm is overdone and gets a bit old, I did find some of his comments funny.
[*]There are a few twists in this book that I did not see coming, I love it when that happens and that I’m not able to guess the twists before they happen
[*]I actually loved the influences derived from classic literature that I studied in school, such as Milton’s epic Paradise Lost. I love how Clare used some of the same demons by name and incorporated them into this modern tale. We can already tell this will end up in a huge angels-vs-demons battle, just like in Milton's poem.
[*]Magnus Bane is probably the most entertaining character, but we see too little of him.
Conclusion: I will read the next book of the series. Truthfully, I felt like the story could have ended in this book and it would have been good. The protagonists have the opportunity to take down the antagonist multiple times in the last few pages and don’t (I won’t tell you the reason for this). But I suppose that if the author would have ended the book there, she wouldn’t have had the opportunity to keep the series going and make more money. Maybe once I read the second book I’ll see why this plot line had to keep going, but as of right now, I don’t.
I rate this book 3 out of 5 stars
Anyone agree or disagree? If you liked this book let me know, if you hated it let me know. If you haven’t read this book do you want to?
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