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A review by aprildiamond
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
3.0
First of all,
WHAT WAS THAT YEEHAW ALABAMA NONSENSE AT THE END?!! WHAT WAS THE REASON??!
I mean, if you were gonna makeJace and Clary siblings, then WHY WOULD YOU MAKE THEM A COUPLE?? Or vice versa! Pick a struggle!
Well, I can't say that I felt this book was very action packed. It seemed like barely anything happened, but not in a "i'm so bored how many pages left" kind of way, more like a "somehow i'm almost done with this without noticing any progression" kind of way. It was like being stuck in a time loop, very weird.
With that being said I didn't have any major problems with it, other than Jace, who is a whiny baby character the entire time and NOBODY calls him out for it. Honestly this guy acts like a 6 year old, if a 6 year old knew how to be "brooding" and "mysterious" and "a bad boy". Notice all of these are in quotes because, yeah right. He always has to have his way for no reason, and it's so annoying. The book would have been 10x better without Jace.
The other main characters were all kind of strange for me because sometimes I liked them and other times I really didn't. Alec was fine basically the whole time, Isabelle wavered (I feel like she wasn't written very strongly), Simon was good then got really lame for a while and then redeemed himself, and I liked Clary except for when she was "in love" with Jace. (See, so much better without him!) Usually I have to call out YA books for the main female characters sucking but I was pleasantly surprised that Clary didn't (ignoring Jace parts!) Yes, she didn't do much but then again nobody really did, and she had some good lines and acted normally. I thought she was decently funny and had morals, which is the basic criteria for my friends so she passed.
A minor nitpick was that Clary and Isabelle bordered on senseless girl hate for a while (as in they weren't friends and hated each other for no good reason) but they patched it up at the end so hopefully we see a good friendship later on. Tbh Clary and Isabelle would have been a better couple but oh well.
I think this series could go either way. Hopefully with the thing about Jace and Clary, their "relationship" stops (if it doesn't I'm going to go INSANE because WHAT), and the next books are better. And maybe there will be more intense plotlines, too, because the premise of the world is really cool. Or everything could go south and it gets worse. We'll see.
Also there is NO WAY these characters are 15 LMAOOO
WHAT WAS THAT YEEHAW ALABAMA NONSENSE AT THE END?!! WHAT WAS THE REASON??!
I mean, if you were gonna make
Well, I can't say that I felt this book was very action packed. It seemed like barely anything happened, but not in a "i'm so bored how many pages left" kind of way, more like a "somehow i'm almost done with this without noticing any progression" kind of way. It was like being stuck in a time loop, very weird.
With that being said I didn't have any major problems with it, other than Jace, who is a whiny baby character the entire time and NOBODY calls him out for it. Honestly this guy acts like a 6 year old, if a 6 year old knew how to be "brooding" and "mysterious" and "a bad boy". Notice all of these are in quotes because, yeah right. He always has to have his way for no reason, and it's so annoying. The book would have been 10x better without Jace.
The other main characters were all kind of strange for me because sometimes I liked them and other times I really didn't. Alec was fine basically the whole time, Isabelle wavered (I feel like she wasn't written very strongly), Simon was good then got really lame for a while and then redeemed himself, and I liked Clary except for when she was "in love" with Jace. (See, so much better without him!) Usually I have to call out YA books for the main female characters sucking but I was pleasantly surprised that Clary didn't (ignoring Jace parts!) Yes, she didn't do much but then again nobody really did, and she had some good lines and acted normally. I thought she was decently funny and had morals, which is the basic criteria for my friends so she passed.
A minor nitpick was that Clary and Isabelle bordered on senseless girl hate for a while (as in they weren't friends and hated each other for no good reason) but they patched it up at the end so hopefully we see a good friendship later on. Tbh Clary and Isabelle would have been a better couple but oh well.
I think this series could go either way. Hopefully with the thing about Jace and Clary, their "relationship" stops (if it doesn't I'm going to go INSANE because WHAT), and the next books are better. And maybe there will be more intense plotlines, too, because the premise of the world is really cool. Or everything could go south and it gets worse. We'll see.
Also there is NO WAY these characters are 15 LMAOOO