City of Bones (Mortal Instruments, #1)

by Cassandra Clare

[Chelsea]

I absolutely love this book. I love how the author has created a whole new world and I love the world that she created. I was curious when I first starting reading. Like woah what is happening kind of curious. As I got further in I couldn’t put it down. I basically had to read it all within two days because I needed to see what happened next. I was a little disappointed to see that she added vampires and werewolves and stuff because those things are already made up and lots of books have them. I thought that her world was so different with the shadow hunters and the others kind of ruined it a bit. I still love it and they do play a major part but I feel like she could have been a little more different because she was already out there. I know a lot of people rate this book bad because her writing is very fanfictiony. It bothered me a little but I was so hooked in the plot that I didn’t really notice after a while. AND there are a lot of comparisons to Harry Potter, maybe that’s why I enjoyed it so much, because that’s the fanfictions this author used to write.

I wasn’t a huge fan of Clary in this one but that happens often for me. I like strong female characters ,like Isabelle, and Clary was a little too soft for me. I liked Jace sometimes. I hate his whole better than everyone thing but he’s just so hot! Alec is ok but whiny but I LOVED Magnus. The best character easy.