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City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
3.5

 
Actual Rating: 3.5 ✰
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2023:
What can I say? Reading trashy YA novels is a toxic trope of mine.

No, but in actuality, despite all of the stereotypical tropes that live in young adult culture, this wouldn’t have been a bad book. (view spoiler)

I still did not like or care for a majority of the characters. Clary is just your typical young adult fantasy heroine. Jace is an asshole. Simon is the whiny friend. Alec is a brooding asshole. And Isabelle did absolutely nothing wrong. She is a queen. But everyone else is on thin fucking ice, I swear!

Anyway, I heard there’s new books coming out. And there’s books in the series that I never even picked up. So I decided to pick up this series again. Just because. For funsies. (view spoiler)

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2016:

Well, that ending was awkward.

I wasn’t even sure I was going to finish this because the story just seemed so slow and I wasn’t into any of the characters. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to enjoy the other books in the series because I really want to give them a chance.


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✰ 3.5 ✰ I enjoyed reading it, but it didn’t have quite the impact that I thought it would.
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