For my birthday this year my beautiful friend Carol bought
me the first two Mortal Instruments books
by Cassandra Clare. I’d been wanting to read the series for age but never got
around to buying them for myself. I finally got around to reading the first in
the series, City of Bones a couple of
weeks ago and couldn’t wait to have time to get on here and tell you guys my
thoughts on it.
City of Bones
revolves around Clary Fray, a girl who discovers that she comes from a family
of demon hunters called ‘shadowhunters’. She teams up with other shadowhunters
when her mum goes missing and discovers the world that her mum kept her
sheltered from her whole life. There are demons, werewolves, vampires and more
that Clary and her friends face. She also has to face Valentine, a shadowhunter
who was thought to be dead. He terrorises the shadowhunters in the search for
the ‘Mortal Cup’ and his self-assigned mission to eradicate the ‘downworlders’
(werewolves, vampires, etc.). Through her battle with Valentine, Clary finds
out more about her family’s past than she ever expected to.
I actually really enjoyed this book. I ended up watching the
movie when I was already about six chapters in and got really worried because I
didn’t really like the movie that much. I kept reading though and I’m so glad I
did. The book is so full of storyline and information that I was quickly able
to see why the movie didn’t work well. The story was intriguing and fun to
read. I really like these supernatural or post-apocalyptic types of books. I
love to see the different versions of the world that authors can create, mainly
because that’s the type of story I like to write myself.
Overall I think it’s a really great book for its genre. It’s
not anything ground-breaking, but it’s easy enough to read and the story is
compelling enough that it has me excited to read the rest of the series. If you’re
into this genre of book then I definitely recommend giving it a go!
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