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The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare
Fanatic here.Love this series. It has a decent UF type action/plot, but really...I just love this series because of Jace.
I also love that Clare had me rooting for a relationship that was taboo.
Same here! This is by far my favorite series of all time. I can't wait for her Infernal Devices series and City of Fallen Angels. :)
I'm hoping to finish City of Ashes tonight. I'm really enjoying this series. Will be sad when I'm done.
yeah i am totally so much more excited now =) I was thinking no one but me liked The Mortal Instruments series since no one had posted a discussion about it yet. So i figured i would give it a try. Especially since there's alot of upcoming events thanks to cassandra clare. We have the 4th book coming out City of Fallen Angels March 2011. The prequel to this series The Infernal Devices is big news =) Clockwork Angel will be out August 31st & also Cassandra's book signing where she will be making a big announcement on Aug. 4th (i think correct me i have any dates wrong i'm going by my memory which isn't great *shrugs*) or that may be when the paperback for city of glass will be out and will have the 1st chapters of the 2 up coming books. I already have it in hardback but i will be buying the paperback just for the previews =)
I think there are quite a few people in this group who don't like it, but I love this series! It is most definately in my top 5.
I read this series at last year and I thoroughly enjoyed it! It is taking way to long for he next book to come out, it may be August 31 but it still feelslike a year away,lol
Yeah, the one coming out in August is going to be part of her prequel trilogy.
Magnus will make an appearance in it somewhere.
Book four in MI won't be out until next year, unfortunately.
I also liked these books. Action, romance, intrigue. The Mortal Instruments series has it all.My teenage daughter also loved them .
Add me to the ones who LOVE this series. I have read them all twice (found I missed so many little things the first time in my desire to find out what happens). My granddaughter has read them all four times (she is 16) and keeps loaning my copies to her friends so I finally bought another set. I bought her a Jace ring for Christmas that she wears all the time.
Mortal Instruments was my 2nd seires which I directly started after finishing the Twilight Saga. I really much loved the series. It was 1.5 weeks with less sleep and reading long after midnight... There were a lot of crying moments, a lot of assumptions of which some turned out to be right... and I firstly got that feeling of wanting to throw out a book out of the window after finishing that as I just couldn't believe it :) Of course I didn't *LOL*
Good story, Jackie. I was getting ready to go to TwiCon in Dallas in June 09 when these three books I had ordered came from Amazon. Leaving on Thursday and they came on Tuesday. I had like a zillion things to do and instead I sat down and read those three books before I left! I was so glad because I met so many at TwiCon who had read them and they were darn sure fresh in my mind!
Yes, this was an amazing series. I love all the twists it has. it really caught me. I couldnt put the books down, hehe.
I am glad to hear this series get a little love because I really enjoyed them and I feel like they get picked on a bit too much!
I have a daughter in law who said she could not get into these and then has finished them and said they were just "okay". I just look at her and shake my head. Her daughter is the one who has read them four times, her husband (my son) loved them as did my other son as well as my brother. There always has to be someone who just doesn't "get it".
Terry, I have to agree with your daughter in law. I tried to read City of Bones, but I just found myself hating the main characters. The premise sounds good, but I didn't like the characters at all.
I understand that we don't all like the same books. It just always makes me sad when my friends don't enjoy something so special. I have a friend who is on Goodreads who I harassed into reading them when she couldn't get into them. Now she is as obsessed by them as I am! But I won't harass you! LOL
Thanks for your non-harrasing-ness.
Don't feel bad for not liking it. I think that book 1 was the weakest of the series though, and book 2 is quite a bit better, with 3 being the best so far.As far as heroines go, I really don't like Clary. Isabelle is a much better character. Jace (my favorite) and Magnus are the reasons why I love the series.
I do think each book is better than the one before and the climax scene is incredible. I liked Clary enough to name a dog after her. LOL A really good dog too! LOVE Jace and pretty much really like all the characters. But the story and dialogue is what makes the book special to me. I love the witty remarks between all of the characters. Jace and Simon's relationship is just so funny and of course changes somewhat as they go along. It is one of those books with a lot of cool quotes throughout.
Speaking of funny quotes and comments (and this series has a lot of them), does anyone get the reference (I think in book 2) to Simon's t-shirt that had a guy with headphones dancing with a chicken?I feel like an idiot if this is supposed to be an obvious reference, but I was totally going "huh?"
LOVED the series, but really hated the fact that the author fooled us for about 2.5 books. I *really* wanted to know, so I had to google for spoilers. I'm sorry, I'm really close to my brothers and it was just really creepy.Now I can't wait for the next book (next year!! *Cries*) since apparently they'll be together and in love! Awww...
At Stacia: I don't get the reference, either...
I never do spoilers or look at the last page of a book. Sometimes it kills me not to, but I figure the author wanted me to agonize over the same things the book character(s) were. I have a brother too, but I don't think many people have ever thought about the idea of finding a brother you did not know you had when your mother (only parent you have ever had) is kidnapped and that brother is the only chance you have of finding her. The whole scenario that they go through is totally unique and not like a brother and sister who grow up together. It is creepy, but the situation was so "out of this world" that it made a darn good read.
*semi-spoiler I guess, just a warning*Like Terry said, it's not the same as if they had grown up together. The feelings came first before any knowledge/false knowledge. I liked the taboo aspect because it didn't feel creepy to me in this circumstance.
Stacia wrote: "*semi-spoiler I guess, just a warning*Like Terry said, it's not the same as if they had grown up together. The feelings came first before any knowledge/false knowledge. I liked the taboo ..."
I totally agree. For one thing it made me think and not just react. It is really beautifully written. I never considered it from the brother/sister raised in a family scenario, and it made me look at the whole taboo thing. Spoiler here: It made me consider how one changes the way one loves a person when in the midst of it they find out that what they thought was not the way it is. How does one change romantic love to brother/sister love? Walk away? - she can't do that with danger, demons, and her mother's kidnapping. One does just what she did/they did, and try with all that they have to turn an entire relationship upside down in the midst of turmoil beyond anything she ever knew existed. It's great. I felt their pain every inch of the way and fell in love with Jace myself.
I agree completely, it was beautifully written. She made you feel their torment and longing for eachother. Out of all the books I've read, Cassandra's characters are the strogest and most believable I've encountered. It's as if the pages have hands and they pull you into the world of Clary and Jace and the shadowhunters.And to think, I picked up City of Bones because Holly Black was on the cover...
My son (grown) bought it first because it has Stephenie Meyer on the cover. He read it and called and told me to buy it. Actually he is the one who had me buy Twilight back in 2007 before we had ever heard of it.
Ah, Twilight...I won't say anything here, it's not the right spot. I wish my cousin would give it a chance, she couldn't bring herself to because of the Jace/Clary thing.
Hi Everyone! Another TMI fan in here! Its been more than a week since I finished this series and I still can't get myself to read other books. I started with other series but everytime we have discussion with my friends about Jace and Clary, I just go in a daze. I always ended up putting down the new book am starting to read. Definitely one of my top 3 fave series! Just hope that Jace would still be as witty as he is in the sequels.
Jackie wrote: "Mortal Instruments was my 2nd seires which I directly started after finishing the Twilight Saga. I really much loved the series. It was 1.5 weeks with less sleep and reading long after midnight... ..."it was the series i started after twilight as well. I honestly thought i would never love another series more than twilight but The Mortal Instruments proved me wrong & i'm actually more into this series than i ever was twilight =)
Henna wrote: "I'M going to read them today cross my fingers its good ! :D hopefully it is !!"have you had a chance to finish the 1st book yet? City of Bones was kinda slow in the beginning for me but it picked up pace quickly. i hope you love it as much as i do =)
I'm about 1/4 of the way through City of Glass and just read something that made me so sad. :(
There are a lot of highs and lows in City of Glass. It is the best book of the three. There are two parts in particular that I have re-read over and over again.
Call me sentimental, but there was also a part of the book about 1/4 of the way also that I actually cried!
I cried too in more than one part. This won't be a spoiler but the part from page 328 to the end of the chapter just about killed me. The "like children in a fairy tale" phrase finished me off. Beautifully done. Then the climax scene of course. So give me a hint - which part 1/4 of the way in.
**POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT**
Terry - Probably where Jace yells at Clary. Made me tear up. And then a part not far past that when they were together and he had to shield her. The aftermath of that about did me in.
Terry - Probably where Jace yells at Clary. Made me tear up. And then a part not far past that when they were together and he had to shield her. The aftermath of that about did me in.
I was just talking with a friend about these books. There are so many wonderful book heroes that we fall in love with...but once in awhile an author creates one that is to die for. Jace is for some reason I really can't define, the one for me. Glad age doesn't matter when you love a guy in a book since he could be my grandson. It really doesn't matter at all!
I read the first book of this series a while back ago and enjoyed it. But when I wanted to read the second one, I couldn't remember all of what happened in the first! So I got the first three audio books out of the library and I am proud to say that I am right now listening to the first one again!I'm enjoying it very much and it always weirds me out to hear the narrator say "Clarissa" since its so close to my name!
Can't wait to finally get to the third so I can join in more on these convos!
Can't wait for The Clockwork Angel! The Mortal Instruments were absolutely epic. I can't believe how amazing they were written. Jace especially I'm completely obsessed with. Sarcastic, witty and dangerous, the boy's the whole package.
Just curious. Do you see Alex Pettyfer as Jace? I am one of the ones who totally does. The minute I first saw his picture I "recognized" him. I had of course already read all the books.
Alex Pettyfer is my ultimate Jace of all time.
I didn't have a clue who Alex Pettyfer was until I looked him up. He is totally how I have pictured Jace!
I didn't like Pettyfer for Jace until someone posted a modified picture of him in this thread. It's about halfway down the page.http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/3... He has the markings and wings and the pic is...wow. That one pic changed my mind and made me want Pettyfer too.
Normally I'd just throw the actual picture up for viewing but it's not my pic, so that's why I put the link to the thread it's in.
Alex Pettyfer is pretty good. I'm really looking forward to Beastly. I've heard people want Molly Quinn for Clary. I love her cause Castle's my favorite TV show of all time.
I think Emma Roberts looks good as Clary too
I really don't like Emma Roberts. I don't know why though.
Oh, I guess it's kinda like the way I don't like Alexz Johnson as Clary even though a lot of people want her as Clary
I've already posted this pic a couple other times today but I like her as Clary : Dakota Blue Richards. Someone originally put this pic up on one of the other GR groups and I felt this look was even better than Molly Quinn's for the role.She's standing awkward in this pic which is how I picture Clary.
She would work for me. To be honest, if Alex P is Jace, I can handle whoever they cast as the others. Not that I don't want them to be exactly right, but that one is a "must have".
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This is my favorite series by far. I am so looking forward to the prequel series The Infernal Devices and the 4th book coming March 2011 City of Fallen Angels. I suggest this series to everyone i meet. I am hoping to find other book reading addicts and especially eager to meet people who share my fanatical addiction with this series.