This book is Book 1 in the Mortal Instruments trilogy.
sequels: City Of Ashes, City Of Glass
Synopsis:
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder - much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing - not even a smear of blood - to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?
This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know....
Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare's ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end.
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder - much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing - not even a smear of blood - to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?
This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know....
Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare's ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end.
Review:
Let me start from the kind of literature this book presents: It is beautiful. Age-appropriate is it indeed for young adults. The violence may not be to the extremes, but still you get the blood and gore. City of Bones is just the start of everything else, as what I see it to be.
The writing came smooth, beautiful and descriptive. The narration is at a normal pace, which is not too draggy and never too fast to catch up. The imagination was presented well through the writing itself, like I said, descriptive yet not too draggy. It's not like Clare swallowed a dictionary and started spitting big words, I believe in her ways to digest the words before they are written on fine paper.
The plot is extremely different, it dragged on the last chapter of the book, though. The receding point seemed awfully long, though it made more space for the sequel, City of Ashes. So I understood why Clare had to fix and present new things, this is definitely not the end, at least I think so.
Character-wise, Clare had created the set of characters I haven't read about for the longest time. They are created with uniqueness and personal identity. The author did not make a name without a story beneath who they are. The protagonist, as what I see her to be, is not as annoying as I thought. She knows how to think.
For everything else, City of Bones deserve every single good review it has received. amazing.
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