City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1) in The Mortal Instruments Series LOVERS! :P

Feb 15, 2010 Judit rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Existujú knihy so zaujímavou anotáciou, knihy, ktoré sú špičkovo spropagované, či knihy s nádhernými obálkami. A potom sú tu knihy, ktoré sú proste a jednoducho dobré. Séria Nástroje smrteľníkov patrí na úplný vrchol knižného potravinového reťazca a s prehľadom požiera všetko okolo seba. Ukáže vám, ako to vyzerá, ak píše niekto, kto má talent od Boha. Predstaví vám nový svet, ktorý sa nachádza len jedno otočenie hlavy od nás. Ukáže vám, že upíri nie sú len trblietavé mľandry, že anjeli nemusia o ...more

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Dec 23, 2010 Jen rated it really liked it

Shelves: favorites, own

If I was to describe City of Bones, I would say that it is the lovechild of Harry Potter and Twilight. Why do I say this? Well, I feel that City of Bones could appeal to both the Harry Potter and Twilight fandoms. Harry Potter fans would love to read City of Bones because like Harry Potter, City of Bones has intricate world-building. Twilight fans would love to read City of Bones because it has the complex-love-triangle-romance dynamic that so characteristically defines Twilight. In addition, Ci If I was to describe City of Bones, I would say that it is the lovechild of Harry Potter and Twilight. Why do I say this? Well, I feel that City of Bones could appeal to both the Harry Potter and Twilight fandoms. Harry Potter fans would love to read City of Bones because like Harry Potter, City of Bones has intricate world-building. Twilight fans would love to read City of Bones because it has the complex-love-triangle-romance dynamic that so characteristically defines Twilight. In addition, City of Bones has a lot of paranormal and fantasy elements. Within this book you will find vampires, werewolves, pixies, magical elements and newly created creatures, lands, and groups of people who live in a secret world totally unknown to humans (whom Cassie Clare has dubbed 'mundanes')

What I liked about City of Bones was learning about this whole new world Cassie Clare has beautifully created where you have shadowhunters (humans who hunt demons and have angel blood in their veins) and downworlders (who are hybrids of humans and demons and include: werewolves, vampires, faries, warlocks etc). Clary the main character, suddenly finds herself being a part of this world by a series of events which change her life forever. Clary is a likeable main character. She is clever, artistic, and strong willed. She also has a secret past that not even she is aware of and it was great to go along with her on her journey to discovering who she truly is.

The best thing about City of Bones are the secondary characters. They are all very well developed and all have very unique personalities. For instance, you have Jace Wayland, a shadowhunter teenager, who is so sarcastic and funny. He's your typical bad boy but he insists on doing the right thing. You also have Simon, who is Clary's best friend and he is just a delight to read. He is so witty and smart. Loved him. Magnus the warlock - oh there are no words. He is so awesome. He has so much personality and so much fun to read. Also, the villain in this book is just wow - there are no words for how evil and twisted he is. And those are just a list of some of the characters. There's much more and they are all very unique and fun to read.

City of Bones is really action packed which I loved. You also have a complicated love triangle and Cassie Clare throws such a big twist towards the end of the book. And, I was not expecting it at ALL. I felt like I got book smacked when I read it. Way to surprise us Cassie. Such a huge cliffhanger, can't wait to see what happens in the rest of the series. Overall, you can't go wrong with this book. Its a a great read.

And what I loved the most in City of Bones, I have to say, is Cassie Clare's word usage. She just uses the most interesting words I have to admit that I had a dictionary next to me the whole time while I was reading this book. That never happened to me even in college, and I read some tough stuff in college (Anyone up for reading a Saskia Sassen essay? Yea I wouldn't like to be in that spot again either). But yea I kinda loved the word usage of Cassie Clare. I learned a bunch of words I have never heard of in my life before. I was kinda always looking forward to the next cool word Cassie would use. And that may be a geeky confession but I like to keep it real. So there you go :D ...more

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Mar 17, 2010 Lore rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: magic, legends, supernatural, fantasy, blew-me-away, vampire, read-more-than-once, favorites, werewolves, angels-and-demons

Before, the first time i read this book I had accidently read a spoiler *gasp*. It ruined my perspective of the book, and I kind of hated it. Then I read it agian (after months of it just being a book sitting around). I rediscoved the world and fell in love with it. But that was after I read COG and could understand the whole thing better. Believe me.

So, after reading that book-wreaking spoiler, I read the book anyway. And then became completly disguted by the romance. But romance aside, it was ...more

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Mar 25, 2010 Sara Payan rated it it was amazing

One of my favorite series ever. Jace a mysterious handsome guy and Clary, a beautiful, interesting, and hardworking girl. Then there is jealous Simon- a sweetie. All the characters are unique and interesting.

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