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Title: City of Bones (Mortal Instruments, No 1))
ISBN: 1416914285
Author:
Cassandra Clare
Publicate Date: 2007-03-27
Publish: 2007-03-27
List Price: $17.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: WhatMissKelleyIsReading: bookitty.typepad.com
Clary Fray doesn't know how much her life will change when she spots two guys, one with a knife, following a couple into a dark part of a Manhattan nightclub. More importantly, she doesn't realize that it's the fact that she can see them that is going to change her life. Soon, her mother has disappeared, the man who is like a father to her refuses to help her, and she must turn to those very guys, Shadowhunters, to protect her from demons and to help her find her mother.
City of Bones is part of the Mortal Instruments series, and in it author Cassandra Clare has imagined new worlds and new twists on old myths about vampire and werewolves, demons and angels, all while setting this first book in NYC. Many readers will see twists coming before Clary does, but that didn't take away from my enjoyment of this book. I'm going to need to finish the trilogy before I'll know if I can put this one out for my students, but I'll definitely pass it on to my interested adult friends.
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2: Twists that I didn't see coming
I just finished the book Mortal Instruments City of Bones. I really like the book a lot. There was a twist at the end that surprised me and I was hoping it wasn't true! But it was. The only thing I didn't really like about this book was the ending. Jace & Clary confront the bad guy, and that part lagged, it went on and on and I was like just do something already!
The book is about a 15 year old name Clary who happens to go into an all age club and follows a demon to three shadowhunters. After that, Clary's life changes. She is no longer the mundane she thought she was and finds out she is more like these shadowhunters then she ever wanted to be. She finds out her whole life has been a lie and her mom didn't tell her what she really was.
When her mom goes missing she teams up with the shadowhunters to find her mom. But not just the shadowhunters are helping, her friend Simon that she known all her life, who is a simple mundane (human) helps out as well. I really like the characters Simon and Jace.
I really like the twist and turns of the book. And now I just started the second book in the series and so far it is good as well.
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3: Like surly dirty-mouthed teenagers?
Then this book is for you. I had to stop after the first few chapters. If you are looking for something other than bad teenage language and behavior wrapped up in a "kill the demons" storyline, this book is not for you. A shame, too, since I think it could have been a good story and the author seems to have an imagination.
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4: expectations MET and surpassed!
As a TWILIGHT fan I needed something to captivate me again. I was skeptic at first thinking there isn't anything else that would give me the "i don't want to put this down" feeling. THIS was it. Stephanie Meyer recommended it and I can see why. You can't help but fall in love with JACE. But this has everything, love story? check, unexpected events? check! action? check! I read all three of the Mortal Instruments and it kept getting better and better! must read!
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5: Surprisingly awesome and wonderful
I've heard from many people that this book was basically Harry Potter meets Twilight, the later of which I was never a fan of at all. So I never thought twice about reading this book until recently.
The first page was enough to get me interested, and I fell head first into the rest. I really enjoyed it! The plot was fast paced, adventurous, the characters were written really well, and the entire thing was thoroughly enjoyable. It did have its rough patches where the plot made no sense, and there were times when the entire thing seemed to have massive plot holes, but they were few and far between. I will be reading the next 2 books and I hope that they are just as good, if not better than City of Bones.
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