City of Bones ♥

Author: Cassandra Clare
Series: The Mortal Instruments, Book 1
Rate (On a scale of 1-10): Um. A million?

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...



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First off, let me say a few things. The Mortal Instruments is my favorite series. Ever. Jace Wayland is the best character that I have ever read about about this book was the main reason I started getting really fascinated with angels, and the whole bad boy/ sarcastic-snarky-with-a-really-sweet-side-for-one-special-girl thing. :)


I love this book. The writing, the characters, the plot, the author, the setting.. Everything. I named my cat after Chairman Meow, for Christ's sake. I loved Magnus, and Valentine was creepy. Still is creepy.


Clary, for me, was the first heroine that could actually do something for a change. She didn't put up with Jace's crap, she's funny, she's unwittingly beautiful, and she's incredibly brave. She loves her friends, her mom, more than anyone could ever imagine. There's a reason she won the heroine tournament at the YA Sisterhood blog. She's amazing.


Jace. Oh good God. Such a perfect boy. If only he were real. Sarcastic, arrogant, kick ass fighter (the best his age), and downright hilarious. My ideal. Is he good looking? Oh yeah. Does he know it? Hell yeah. I love him because he has quotes like this- “Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do,”  And then he has quotes like this- “And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.” He's just so perfect.


Okay. I think that pretty much covers that. I want to thank Cassandra Clare for being the first author who really spoke through her reading to me. That series is just so perfect. I love it. THANK YOU.


7 out of 5 stars. Definitely. No doubt. Wait. Probably more. 50. That should cover it.