City of Bones: Mortal Instruments, Book 1

Clary Fray is just your average fifteen year old girl, living in New York with her mum Jocelyn, right?Well that's what she had been led to believe all her life, but when she witnesses the murder of a `blue haired' boy in a closet of a night club by three attackers, and no one else seems to be able to see anything, she goes home confused.Out of the blue one day her mum announces that they are leaving New York, right away. Clary gets mad at her mum as she doesn't want to leave and takes off with her best friend, Simon.Whilst sat in the local café with Simon, she notices one of the attackers from the night club walk past the window, and goes out to follow him. He doesn't understand how she can see him. He tells her that he is a Shadowhunter and that he can only been seen by others from his world or if he chooses to be seen.Whilst talking to the Jace, the Shadowhunter, she receives a frantic call from her mum telling her not to come home. Doing exactly the opposite she races home, followed by Jace and finds it trashed, her mum gone and a strange hissing creature heading towards her. After a battle she manages to kill the creature but not before it has stung her.With Clary now in grave danger after being infected by a demon, Jace does the only thing he can think of - he takes her to the New York Institution, the home for Shadowhunters, so that they can help cure her.This is the start of Clary's journey into a world that runs parallel with the mortal world, a world full of warlocks, witches, vampires, werewolves, faeries, demons and of course Shadowhunters.If she's going to find out what has happened to her mum, she must first discover who she truly is, and learn to fulfil her full potential.ReviewThis is the first book in "The Mortal Instruments" series. The books are aimed at the YA genre, but I was so enthralled by the plot and the hype around the book that I decided to read it.I discovered a series of books that I love and that would keep me entertainment for a long time.This is Cassandra's first novel and it is well written for a debut, even if her use of metaphors in the first few chapters is a bit over the top, though that alone doesn't take away the thrill and ease of the read.Its a story of mystic, magic, romance, action, adventure, hate and anger all thrown in together. The plot develops slowly, chapter by chapter and we the reader, are continuously surprised throughout the book with each new development.Clary is the protagonist and even with her being only fifteen, I found her enchanting, full of energy and she clearly is a fighter.Jace is a very head-strong young man, who has had to fight all of his life making him quite stubborn and set in his ways. Then, along came Clary, giving him feelings that he's never experienced before, finding himself attracted to her.With the added bonus of a kick-ass female with a whip, Izzy, and her older, seriously moody brother Alec, along with geeky Simon, the book is full of well thought out characters, who work well together and are not overshadowed by the protagonists.I love this book, even though it isn't aimed at my age group I still found it engaging and mysterious. I love the idea of a world we can't see but exists along side us.The action and adventure fill the book and Cassandra's eye for detail throughout, make visualising the scenes easy. There is also the obvious attraction that Clary and Jace have for each other running ever present in the background of the story, creating that, `will they won't they?' suspension.I have since read the entire collection and have loved all the books, although when you discover the time that the whole series has been created in, it does seem a bit far fetched, for so much to happen in such a short amount of time.The book has since been adapted in to a movie, which I can honestly say I wasn't impressed with. The characters weren't how I imagined them and there is a lot of the plot missing, including many key parts of the story.

The City of Bones in a young adult book that is the first novel in the Shadowhunters series, also known as the mortal instruments series, written by Cassandra Clare. This novel focusses on our main character Clary who accidentally witnesses a murder in a local club by two mysterious boys and a girl. She quickly finds out that nobody except her can see these killers. The killers are the handsome, arrogant Jace and a brother-sister duo who all live together. Clary quickly becomes involved with these three as her mother is mysteriously taken by a villain and they help her to save her mother. In a nutshell.This book is something that was being raved about on Booktube. Emmabooks loves this series and thought that I should give it a go. First impressions were good. The opening of the novel was gripping and I enjoyed the different POV that it had in the start, but this did not continue on. This book is a fantasy novel that involves vampires, demons, faeries, werewolves etc. It has them all.The writing was enjoyable to read but often sometimes juvenile. As this is the first book in the series, I can understand maybe a lack of perfected skill in the writing process and I've heard the other books show a great improvement on this. I, however, still felt it didn't take away from the novel and I enjoyed it. The MC is also a teenager and so the language and storytelling were appropriate for the age of the MC and target audience.There is a lot of action happening in this book. It's very adventurous and has lots of "missions" involved in it. I felt it had maybe one too many missions in it as it was getting a little bit drawn out. The storyline of Clary's best friend becoming a rat and being stolen by vampires wasn't entirely necessary in my opinion, but nevertheless, the action was good. That is just an example of a part where I felt it was just added in for length and more action. Whilst there is action and fantasy there is also a little romance between Clary and Jace. Jace is such an arrogant character he made me laugh out loud for most of his dialogue. He was my favorite character just for being a bit of a jerk. I was really reading to see the romance subplot between them and I was so happy... and then so, so disappointed. There is a further storyline between these two that I honestly felt was unnecessary and annoyed me that it was added. It leads you into the second book, which is great to entice readers, but I just did not like the idea of that storyline. Especially when you know deep down it's going to unravel in the next or coming book anyway because it obviously will. It was kind of like a filler subplot - and it bugged me. It actually put me off reading the second one.I did buy the second and the third novels when I was halfway through this book as I was enjoying it. I don't read a lot of YA but felt this was a good series. That twist at the end between Jace and Clary did happen to put me off. I have started the second book a few weeks ago and I'm not further than 50 pages in. I think it might be because that twist at the end of this book detracts from the second and so causes the MC become all mopey etc. But, that was my biggest issue with the plot of this novel. I do love a romance, it's my primary fiction genre to read, and with that under my belt it did crush my love for this book.I think if you love twilight and things like that then you will enjoy this book. It has lots of creepy things going on. The characters are loveable. I'm still laughing at Jace's sarcastic comments, and I did like Clary as a female MC. She's headstrong and not a Mary Sue in my opinion. I also loved the "silent brothers". Damn... those guys are creepy. Just picturing them makes me shudder. The descriptions were in-depth and enjoyable to read. There is also a map in the cover of my book which I also found to be a nice touch.Overall, I would recommend this book to someone who likes Twilight and likes to read in the fantasy YA genre. I also bought this as a "good like new" book from the Amazon marketplace and it was pristine. There wasn't a broken spine or any dogeared pages. That thrilled me and my inner book nerd to its maximum. I felt the plot was sometimes a little too much, and that ending wasn't quite up my street, which in turn has put me off the second. But, I do still have the second and third books and will be reading them anyway out of enjoyment for the characters - and I know, I will put money on that ending being false.Happy reading!

A edição é linda!! Amei demais, o vendedor embalou bem então não veio com amassados, sobreviveu aos correios.

Books great! Covers in good shape too just not pictured. Only complaint is my copy has a handful of ink streaked pages near the end, but otherwise everything’s perfect.

Haven't read them yet but these editions are so beautiful!

La edición es preciosa. Este libro es un must para cualquier fan de cazadores de sombras

Articolo arrivato nei tempi prestabiliti e in buone condizioni, per il resto è stupendo e un ottimo pezzo da collezione