{Review} City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Series: The Mortal Instruments #1

Publication date: March 27, 2007

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books

ISBN-13: 99781416914280

Synopsis

They always say there is a world out there, a world just waiting for us to explore it, but that is a lie.

The world, the real world is right in front of us, it’s always been in front of me but I had never really seen it, until that day I witnessed a murder that no one else could see. From that day forward my world got stranger and more dangerous.

The disappearance of my mother, the opening of this strange world and all its “new” inhabitants where a lot to swallow yet there wasn’t the time to digest everything that was going around when all I could think about was finding the woman that gave birth to me, helped me grow and help them blind me from this new world.

Review

Here is the thing with City of Bones, I feel that I started this book upon false pretenses, first of all there was the huge talk everyone was doing about the movie and even before that the amount of books that this series has sold; the second part was that a girl that attended the Mortal Instruments panel said that Cassandra Clare had said that the story was born from a fanfic she was writing about Hermione Granger and mister Draco Malfoy (you know before he went to the point of no return) which made me supper excited and gave me the grabby hands yet it did not deliver.

Second of all I get the concept of Jace the arrogant boy falling for the first time, but once you get your favorite arrogant boy/men it’s kind of hard for another to really take the spotlight so please feel free to blame Ethan Sullivan from Chicagoland Vampires by Chloe Neill.

Story wise I liked it, the way the different species come to work and how this world works, the story behind this world is interesting and I love the concept that the past comes back to bite them in the derrière.

But the characters really lacked for me, I don’t know if it was because of the Draco-Hermione expectations when it comes to the main characters but when it comes to the rest of the cast I just don’t feel like I got to know any of them or even made a connection except for Luke Garroway who didn’t have a lot of letter count on the book but even then he was the character I found myself most interested in.

I think I will be giving City of Glass a try to see if the characters get to grow, if they leave some of the clichés behind (sorry didn’t know who to mention there where some cliché parts without getting into details) and well you know an excuse for Luke time, but if it doesn’t cut it for me I may let the Mortal Instruments to rest.

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