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City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

Cassandra Clare

Start date: September 1, 2011

Finish date: September 30, 2011

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Oct 08, 2011 S.L.J. rated it really liked it

Shelves: angels

I found this book very entertianing. I know all the talk about how it's a rip-off of Harry Potter etc but it contains all the elements that I loved about Harry Potter so I'm happy.

The only realy peeve I have isn't directed at the book, but rather the author and the scores of other authors that decide to base their books on Nephilim just because angel/human hybrids sound cool.

The old scriptures say that one of the reasons God flooded the world was to kill all the Nephilim. In the original tales t ...more

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Nov 30, 2011 Everly Anders rated it really liked it

At first, I was not sure about this book because I am 29 and the book is about a 15 year old girl, but I quickly got over that. What I loved about it was that there was a young Gay character and I think that is important in YA books, but more importantly there was a lot of action and I never knew what was going to happen next. It took me a little while to get into but once I finished, iw as so interested in the story that I had to run out and buy the next one.

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