false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255569465m/256683.jpg 256683 15 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?<P>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. . . .<P>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. 2267189 book 27 3 2005 City of Bones (Mortal Instruments, #1) total:10626|5:4701|4:3474|3:1780|2:490|1:181| 10626 43902 15819 2348 1 47 false true Sat Dec 01 00:04:54 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 00:09:41 -0800 2007
I had been looking forward to this book for months because I enjoyed her fanfiction (despite the controversy surrounding some of it), but this book is easily one of the worst I have ever read. Trust ...more...]]> 3 32 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 18:17:26 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 06 03:08:08 -0800 2009
If you've even dipped a pinkie toe in the online Harry Potter fandom, you've probably heard of the author (if not, just employ ...more...]]> 1 14 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 04 09:40:04 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 04 18:43:53 -0700 2007
I grant you, I was probably never going to give this a five star rating. I dislike Cassie Claire immensely from our time in fandom together - she is a liar and a documented una...more...]]> 4 7 false false Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 15:34:09 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 15:13:28 -0700 2009
Ok so I was practically splitting my head open thinking of what exactly I wanted to say about this book. In t...more...]]> 1 17 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 10:22:24 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 10:35:20 -0700 2007 Buffy, Harry Potter, and Star Wars that it sticks out like a sore thumb. It reads like altered fan fiction. And I love fan fiction, make no mistake, but it's not attempting to make a buck off someone else'...more...]]> 4 9 false false Thu Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 16:08:09 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 14:18:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 7 false true Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 10:15:39 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 19:58:31 -0700 2009
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I will say for certain that it's better than stephanie's Twilight series, but I wouldn't be willing to dedicate shelf space to housing this book.

The part that probably turned me off the most was Clary. Dumb as a rock. Beautiful but unaware of it. Object of...more...]]> 5 12 false false Fri Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 16 01:06:47 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 01:08:28 -0800 2008


A very good friend of mine has been nagging me for quite some time now about read...more...]]> 5 8 false false Wed Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jul 09 11:53:54 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 14 07:09:31 -0800 2008 1 City of Bones. I have been a fan of other huge series like Harry Potter and Twilight and this book captivated me as much as Harry Potter did at its greatest hype. I physically could not put it down. I would be in class at school, itching for a few moment...more...]]> 5 7 false false Tue Apr 29 18:24:39 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 18:24:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 5 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 18 20:26:37 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 28 17:50:41 -0800 2007
I will admit that I read this purely because Cassandra Clare wrote the ridiculously well-known S...more...]]> 2 8 false false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 09:53:26 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 11:00:33 -0800 2009 bad. And it takes really horrible writing to turn me off a book.
Seriously, a lot of those words don't mean what she wants them to mean in that context! She twists cliche's into unrecognizable gook...more...]]> 1 3 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 16:03:02 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 14:35:32 -0700 2009
Clary annoyed me as the typical-beautiful-girl-who-doesn't-know-she's-beautiful-and-is-shy-but-will-follow-strangers-into-a-club's-backroom-and-slap-someone-regardless-if-he-deserved-it.

And Clary wasn't the only one. Al...more...]]> 3 3 false false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 21 13:30:57 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 21 17:32:36 -0700 2009
I will start out saying that the book has an interestng plot. The action starts out right away and keeps building, so there aren't a lot of non-essential ...more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 12:00:16 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 14:12:26 -0700 2009
Welcome to the Shadow Worl...more...]]> 4 4 false false Wed Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 07:26:40 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 18:56:06 -0700 2008
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City Of Bones -
Clary Fray is your average teenage girl, arguments with her mother, staying out too late and a best friend who is in love with her--but she is too blind to see it. That all changes when Clary and her best friend visit the club Pandemon...more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Sep 12 15:04:13 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 15:04:20 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=256683