📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
AUTHOR: Cassandra Clare
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: March 27 2007
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Alright, so I saw the movie of this a long time ago. Hated it. Thought it was a wannabe Twilight, which I hated even more. But, Laney had this on her Scribd account and I needed a book for my We Be Book’n facebook group. One I was supposed to read long ago. Okay. I guess I’ll bite the bullet…
Okay, Clari is an average girl who just happens to have secret blood ties to a group of half-angel exorcists called shadow hunters. Her mother stole the Mortal Cup from Valentine, who intended to use it to turn half of humanity into shadow hunters, killing the rest. I got all that from the movie. But now, I get to see how the original writer intended things.
Hey. This isn’t bad. In fact, Clari and Simon (the main character and her childhood friend) are totally likeable. The love triangle is resolved in a completely different way than the movie, and handled SO MUCH BETTER. In fact… this book is good. I am now looking on Wikipedia to find out who was responsible for that dumpster fire of a movie. Seriously, I haven’t seen an adaptation as bad as that since the Mario Brothers movie.
If you haven’t seen this book, give it a go. I think Cassandra Clare deserves a second chance.
You can see more in my video review:
Small Summary:
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…
*****
All thoughts and opinions are my own.