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376 reviews for:
The Mortal Instruments Boxed Set: City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
4.07 AVERAGE
376 reviews for:
The Mortal Instruments Boxed Set: City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
4.07 AVERAGE
its not that these books were bad... they were pretty awesome actually. Maybe I could have found themmore interesting had I started them directly after Percy Jackson series. The characters were good but there traits were not clear. You could not really connect with any of them. Except Simon. The plot remained interesting overall and there were big shocks.
I found the world that Clare made pretty attractive
I found the world that Clare made pretty attractive
Why was this taken out? it explains so much about Jace, and it's things the readers kind of need to know. His insecurities hardly ever shine through, we can only guess at them - yet, here, they are out in the open, and it's nice to know that Jace can feel vulnerable too.
Merged review:
Sometimes, I actually wish more stuff would be from Jace's POV, this was good!
Merged review:
Sometimes, I actually wish more stuff would be from Jace's POV, this was good!
I liked this book until the end. The whole brother/sister romance thing literally made me nauseous. I hate Starwars too and it might be for the same reason. It is not a clever plot twist, it is gross. I really liked the story, the world and the characters, but I am not sure I can get over this and push through to the next book. The only reason I might is that I am hoping that we find out Jace really is Waylands son and Valentine took him to replace Johnathan, but that wouldn't really make much sense. I just hate that now any affectionate moment between Clary and Jace is creepy and gross. Why did she have to ruin something good at the last chapter! Ugg I am so mad lol
After reading The Infernal Devices series and completely loving it, I knew I had to start The Mortal Instruments as soon as possible. I knew I'd love it as I had loved the other series. But City of Bones wasn't my favorite out of them all. That's probably not fair considering that TID is one of my favorites series. Ever. I read TID first for a couple of different reasons. I'd read a sampler chapter on Amazon and was immediately pulled into the story. And it was set in Victorian London. It being set in the past was what swayed me to pick up Clockwork Angel first.
This book only ended up being 4 stars for me because it was missing, I don't know, something. It didn't hold my attention very well, not until well past the halfway point. I ended up taking over a week to finish it.
I have to say, even I made comparisons between the two series. I hate to say it, but I did! It was so hard not to do. It was hard to get used to a completely different set of characters and a new setting. But as I dropped the comparisons and focused solely on the characters and story-line I was reading about, I loved the differences I found, and the similarities.
I loved the characters, but it took me awhile to warm up to them. I ended up not really loving anyone until later on in the story, when I learned more about them. I also didn't see that many personality similarities between these characters and the ones in TID. They had their own stories and trials, own attitudes and way of thinking.
Oh, and I cannot forget about the reappearance of Magnus Bane. I love him! He's more jaded and cynical now, but he's still the same wonderful warlock. <3
As always, I love Clare's sense of humor. It's that sense of humor that really brings out the personalities in her characters and makes them more three-dimensional. She knows when it use it, and when to not use it. Except for Jace, who sometimes like Will, attempted humor in the worse circumstances.
I also enjoyed the world-building. I absolutely love this world of Shadowhunters and Downworlders that Clare has created. She manages to infuse their world with the one we live in now, and still make it all fresh and new and exciting.
The story-line is so inventive, with wonderfully told characters and an intricately woven plot throughout the book. It's no wonder that these series have accumulated such a huge fan base. Clare is one author who knows how to bring the imaginative world that she created to life.
This book only ended up being 4 stars for me because it was missing, I don't know, something. It didn't hold my attention very well, not until well past the halfway point. I ended up taking over a week to finish it.
I have to say, even I made comparisons between the two series. I hate to say it, but I did! It was so hard not to do. It was hard to get used to a completely different set of characters and a new setting. But as I dropped the comparisons and focused solely on the characters and story-line I was reading about, I loved the differences I found, and the similarities.
I loved the characters, but it took me awhile to warm up to them. I ended up not really loving anyone until later on in the story, when I learned more about them. I also didn't see that many personality similarities between these characters and the ones in TID. They had their own stories and trials, own attitudes and way of thinking.
Oh, and I cannot forget about the reappearance of Magnus Bane. I love him! He's more jaded and cynical now, but he's still the same wonderful warlock. <3
As always, I love Clare's sense of humor. It's that sense of humor that really brings out the personalities in her characters and makes them more three-dimensional. She knows when it use it, and when to not use it. Except for Jace, who sometimes like Will, attempted humor in the worse circumstances.
I also enjoyed the world-building. I absolutely love this world of Shadowhunters and Downworlders that Clare has created. She manages to infuse their world with the one we live in now, and still make it all fresh and new and exciting.
The story-line is so inventive, with wonderfully told characters and an intricately woven plot throughout the book. It's no wonder that these series have accumulated such a huge fan base. Clare is one author who knows how to bring the imaginative world that she created to life.
Enjoyed this a lot. YA fantasy with some excellent characters - especially Magnus Bane (who I would have enjoyed the entire book being about tbh). The only problem I had with this book is that it needs to be more tightly edited. Clary will be worrying about something three pages after it's already been solved or will suddenly realise something that she also realised... the page before. Other than that though, solid effort.
This is another my my newly beloved "YA Supernatural Novels" genre.
There was a lot of exposition in this novel (which isn't a bad thing, as far as I'm concerned) but there was plenty of action, too.
General gist: humans (or "mundanes," as we are so charmingly called) don't see Downworlders (vampires, werewolves, faeries), demons (self-explanatory) or Shadowhunters (the people who fight demons and rogue downworlders--the rogues kill humans). Except now Clary can and the day after she discovers that she can, her mom disappears. So she and a few Shadowhunters are trying to figure out why.
If you read a lot of these types of books, you're probably not going to be shocked by what happens in this one. There are twists and turns, yes, but you'll probably see almost all of them coming a mile away (I will admit that one of them actually was a shock, but most of them weren't).
This isn't to say, though, that the book wasn't fun--it was extremely entertaining. I'm going to read the second now, and I'm psyched to get the third one in a couple weeks.
There was a lot of exposition in this novel (which isn't a bad thing, as far as I'm concerned) but there was plenty of action, too.
General gist: humans (or "mundanes," as we are so charmingly called) don't see Downworlders (vampires, werewolves, faeries), demons (self-explanatory) or Shadowhunters (the people who fight demons and rogue downworlders--the rogues kill humans). Except now Clary can and the day after she discovers that she can, her mom disappears. So she and a few Shadowhunters are trying to figure out why.
If you read a lot of these types of books, you're probably not going to be shocked by what happens in this one. There are twists and turns, yes, but you'll probably see almost all of them coming a mile away (I will admit that one of them actually was a shock, but most of them weren't).
This isn't to say, though, that the book wasn't fun--it was extremely entertaining. I'm going to read the second now, and I'm psyched to get the third one in a couple weeks.
This was a reasonably interesting tale. I liked a lot of the concepts but the coincidence revealed toward the end was a bit much for me, very reminiscent of the Star Wars reveal (hope that wasn't too much of a clue to the spoiler haters) I was interested to hear this was going to be turned into a movie. Probably another teen sensation ruined by Hollywood. We shall see. Definitely liked it enough to read the sequels