The
Mortal Instruments:
The City Of Bones by Cassandra Clare.
Publication
date
|
March 27, 2007
(U.S.)
July 2, 2007
(UK)
|
Genre
|
Fantasy,
Young adult,
Action,
Romance.
|
Number of
Pages
|
485 pp.
|
Fifteen-year-old Clary Fray, your average
artsy teenage girl with her gamer/comic geek best friend Simon Lewis goes to
the club Pandemonium . Inside, she sees a blue haired boy and a beautiful raven
haired girl heading for the stored room with two boys following undetected
behind them armed with what appears to be a knife. No one else seems to see
them so she gets Simon to go get help while she follows them. She listens to a
bizarre conversation about demons and watches the blue haired 'boy' being
killed and suddenly vanish.
Clary
being an artsy girl likes to draw and she can't seem to get a symbol out of her
head, later she finds out that the people she saw in Pandemonium and the symbol
are connected when she sees it again but on the blond haired boy she saw with
the knife. She then gets a frightening phone call from her mother and is sucked
into a world where every fantasy story she read and every nightmare she's had
is real…
I think people who are in love with the
fantasy world as much as I am can understand my intense love for this book.
It's the first book of the Mortal Instruments series, there are six in total.
Like all books there are flaws to the writing but I think there are really
great assets in this book. I feel like the friendship between Clary and Simon
wasn't developed fully and Clary was portrayed too naively.
I do like how the relationship between Clary
and Jace developed, the way Jace not only acts cocky and
reckless around her but sweet, caring and gets her to trust him. One of my
favourite parts of the book is the twist at the end, it not only gives an
interesting end to this book but gives you a lot to think about before you read
the next.
If you like fantasy, action packed romance novels then I can recommend you read this book.
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Link: Amazon
~M
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