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  <body>making slow progress. been slacking on the reading front for the past week.  lazyness!</body>
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  <body>getting interesting. very much like it so far.</body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I could give it another half star, I would.  3 for the first half and 4 for the last.  Nothing about the story felt new to me.  I'm not saying that she isn't original, it's just that I read His Dark Materials, Harry Potter and Twilight all before this one so some of the battles and twists in the plot felt &quot;gently used.&quot;  My biggest complaint is that the character development felt a little shallow.  I didn't come out of the story feeling like I could really define any one character very well except for Simon and, maybe, Clary.  For most of the story, I enjoyed that you could see things from other characters' perspectives but it didn't help me with defining the characters.  I wish she'd spent a little more time on that.  I love nothing more in a good book than some witty and spiced exchanges in dialogue so I was disappointed sometimes when the exchanges went on with no significance to the characters or the story.<br/><br/>It took me a little longer than I expected to become really invested in this book BUT when it did grab my interest it was hard to put down, I give it that.  And in the end, aside from the hurried Clary-Jace resolution (not hard to see that coming but I was still peeved), I was mostly content with how the story left off.  I anticipate that the second in the series will resolve my little gripes.  ]]></body>
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