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May 07, 2011 Jessica *The Lovely Books* rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, tbr-challenge

Dec2011-going to try reading this book again!!

Feb.2012
I liked city of bones the second time around. I actually finished the book ha.
Wtf moment.
Please Jace and Clary, don't be brother and sister!!!!
So gross:P ...more

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Aug 08, 2010 ♡Meme♡Reads love♡ rated it really liked it

Shelves: young-adult-reads, angels, vampires, all-kinds-of-monsters, surprising-twist

I thought this was a good exciting story It kept me inthralled from page one. It was full of action and some mystery. Although I was hoping for more of a romance fell to it, it was still good, in ways it reminded me of Harry Potter. The author kept you on your toes waiting to find out what happens next with each page.

The reason for the 4stars is...
As much as I like YA books I just don't like it when their girl characters are made out to be so naive about certain things that are right there in fr ...more

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Jan 04, 2011 Nurlely rated it it was amazing

I always love everything about Jace...:)

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This book captured me once I read the first pages. I swam into the adventure right away. The cover is great. The tattoos are intriguing. I loved Jace and Clary. Well...mostly Jace. He was so gorgeous and wit. Slim but yet powerful. Who will not love this Nephilim boy? I am pretty sure it will only apply one who has not yet known him.

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Jul 08, 2011 Julie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: bookclub-reads, outdo-yourself-challenge-2013

This book started out a little generic to me with the girl doesn’t know she’s anything special and is trying to live a normal life when all of a sudden in her teenage years she learns that monsters exist and she’s part of their world. Something happens and a family member is in trouble and she has to learn about her place in the world she didn’t know existed in order to go to the rescue. But that is pretty much where the cliché teenage fantasy novel plot building ends. The world in this novel is This book started out a little generic to me with the girl doesn’t know she’s anything special and is trying to live a normal life when all of a sudden in her teenage years she learns that monsters exist and she’s part of their world. Something happens and a family member is in trouble and she has to learn about her place in the world she didn’t know existed in order to go to the rescue. But that is pretty much where the cliché teenage fantasy novel plot building ends. The world in this novel is unique and exciting with a lot of aspects I haven’t read about before. I admit the first part of this book took a while for me to follow because of the complex world building and learning about the Shadowhunters (demon hunters), the Downworlders (vampires, werewolves, fae, warlocks, etc), and everyone involved. There are items and concepts I am not familiar with and it took a while to grasp everything and have the world come together in my mind. But that is to be expected in a first book in a series, so I was patient with it.

This is a story where the people who you think are dead might not really be dead, family connections are not what they initially seem, and everyone has secrets. I’m not going to include any spoilers in this review, so I will try to keep everything vague. Clary is learning about her new Shadowhunter friends: brother and sister Alec and Isabelle, and Jace, who is an orphan and has been raised by Alec and Isabelle’s parents. Also, her best friend and mundane (completely human) best friend Simon refuses to be left out. These are our main characters. Jace is instantly super protective of Clary and that doesn’t get explained until later in the book when all the bombshells are dropped. And let me tell you there are some pretty cool bombshells. There’s also a bit of a Star Wars parallel between the characters but any more details than that would be spoilery. There’s also a lot of unrequited love between many of the characters so we can’t even really say there is a love interest or a love triangle because it is quite complex. Once the action gets started, everything moves pretty quickly with a lot of mystery and final realizations toward the end.

I gave this book 4 stars but it might be more of a 3.75 rounded up. The world building does take a while and all the major plot development happens at the very end of the story. It definitely builds up and makes you want to read the next book to know what happens. ...more

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Dec 09, 2010 Emma-Louise Turnbull rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, magical, realism

I loved this book. I couldn't put the book down and once i had read the first i knew i had to get the others in the series. This is a book that i can read over and over again and never get bored. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves reading fantasy stories twisted with love.

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I loved this book. I couldn't put the book down and once i had read the first i knew i had to get the others in the series. This is a book that i can read over and over again and never get bored. I h ...more

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Oct 12, 2010 Emma-Louise Turnbull rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

This is my favourite book, i love the series :) i prefer the first three because they're the best :D and i prefer to read books with female main characters because it helps that i understand them better :P anyhoo, great book i love it! once i started i could not put the book down. Cassandra Clare created one of the best storylines with some of the greatest characters ever. i highly recommend anyone to read this because they will enjoy it :) and i've heard that they are making a movie of this boo ...more

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Aug 16, 2010 Carri rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-2011

I liked it. I did not love it, but I have been reading alot of series lately and found that I usually think the first book is ok and then end up totally falling in love with the series after 2 or 3 books! So I am optimistic. I am looking forward to loving the rest of the books!

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Nov 02, 2010 Julie rated it it was amazing

I loved this series. They are about an exciting world going on all around us. I love the characters. The Author keeps you wanting more and never lets up.

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