Laura's Reviews > City of Bones
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City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
by Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
Having read Melissa Marr's Wicked Lovely series, as well as Need, Strange Angels and a host (pun intended) of other human/non-human books, this book didn't stand out for me. It's good, don't get me wrong, but it just didn't W.O.W. me.
At times it felt as though Clare was tossing in all the images, demons and tropes she could remember from her previous reading and mashed them all together into something not-quite-new. For example, I figured out Jace's secret well before the reveal, Some of the names were really Potteresque, and the Silent Brotherhood was a little (in looks, anyway) too like Buffy's Gentlemen.
What saved it from the utter pastiche of, say, Paolini's Inheritance series, is that there is an intelligence there that might lead to something more in the next book (or books) in the series. We'll see.
At times it felt as though Clare was tossing in all the images, demons and tropes she could remember from her previous reading and mashed them all together into something not-quite-new. For example, I figured out Jace's secret well before the reveal, Some of the names were really Potteresque, and the Silent Brotherhood was a little (in looks, anyway) too like Buffy's Gentlemen.
What saved it from the utter pastiche of, say, Paolini's Inheritance series, is that there is an intelligence there that might lead to something more in the next book (or books) in the series. We'll see.
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Good review and I completely understand what you mean. I think Cassandra Clare is an author who has a lot of influences in a lot of shows like Buffy The Vampire Slayer. I really like City of Bones but there are a few things than she can do better in that book but when it comes to City of Ashes for me is clear that she grow a lot in terms of writing. I LOVE The Mortal Instruments trilogy and I always think the perfect key for series is that the reader can figure out the clues that the author is living behind, for me when a book in a final series have a lot of things that comes from nowhere is not ok. Let me tell you that I take a day off at my work to read nonstop City of Glass and I enjoy every single minute.
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