City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Clarissa Fray and her best friend Simon go to Pandemonium, a
teenage club in New York, for a little fun on one fate-driven night. As Simon and Clary dance, she notices a boy
following a beautiful girl into a storage closet, but it just wasn’t a normal
make out session, she noticed that the couple was being followed by two guys
and one of them has a knife. She sends
Simon to get a bouncer and follows the group into the closet, what happens next
shocks us all, they can’t figure out why Clary can see them. As she witnesses a murder in that closet, she
can’t shake the feeling that there is something quite different about her life
now. The next day, her mom goes missing,
kidnapped by a dead man, Clary learns more about her life than she ever thought
possible. Will the truth set her free or
dig her deeper into the rabbit hole of a world she never signed up for?
I loved this book. I
bought this book last August, but my line-up for books has been too crazy to
get them all taken care of, so it has sat on the shelf for some time. When I decided to pick it up, I was so glad
that I did. There was mystery, suspense,
and a great love story. From the
beginning to the end I was addicted to the story and wanted to get to know each
character more and more. Clare expresses
this new world to Clary through Jace and the other Nephilim in a way that had
me hooked. I love it when a character
learns about their life that they should have been living in from birth, but
didn’t because of someone else’s decision.
Clary’s mom decided when she was born to hide her true identity from
Clary and everyone she has met. Whenever
she meets Jace he explains the new world that she has just started seeing for
the first time. As the audience goes
through the story, I know that I was eager to see what was going to happen.
I have read some reviews that talk about Clare’s writing
style, one person said that she switches tenses not only between the character’s
points of views, but within the same paragraph.
I usually have a keen eye for these types of editing mistakes, but I
didn’t notice at all, I think mainly because I was so enraptured in the story,
that the world could have blown up around me and I would have died happy and
never known the world was on fire. I
only feel sorry that the person whose review I read didn’t have the same
experience.
Without giving any spoilers, I’m just going to say that I
hated the development in the end. But I
wasn’t surprised. I guessed Jace’s true
identity almost from the very beginning and I hated it. I don’t want to give away too much, no
spoilers, I promise, just know how disappointed I was. I hope that it’s wrong in a future book, I
have a feeling that it’s not true, but I do go back and forth on my opinion.
I can’t wait to continue this series and learn more about
the Nephilim and how Clary will continue to fit into this new world of the
Shadowhunters. I hope that if you read
it that you loved it as much as I did and also that you can’t wait for more of
these books to come out. I haven’t done
any research on the Mortal Instrument Series, maybe it’s over, I don’t know,
but I can’t wait to start City of Ashes, TODAY! Keep reading my friends!***Side note, I wrote this blog 2 months ago, I have finished all of the Mortal Insturments that are released to date, and I have pre-ordered City of Lost Souls, which comes out in a few weeks!
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