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A review by readerturnedwriter
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
3.0
I read the first three of this series. These books were fine. I didn't love them, but I think I would have if I'd read them when I was in high school. They felt very Twilight-esque to me. It was set in our world/time, but there were vampires, werewolves, faeries, warlocks, demons, and shadowhunters (humans who had angel blood, tasked with fighting the demons). For the most part, I liked the characters and the character growth. It had a happy ending, which I always like.
Things that bothered me about them: there were parts of the plot (particularly in the third book) that were just annoying; the main bad guy was messed up and when they talked about some of the things he did, it bothered me; as far as I could tell, nobody slept together, but there were some times they were close and it definitely was a theme throughout the book; a child dies, which always bothers me (I almost stopped reading then); and finally, the fact that the premise of the book was about demons versus angels, I just don't really like stories based on that usually.
I won't be reading the rest of the series. It didn't draw me in enough (though I have read The Clockwork Angels series and liked that more).
Things that bothered me about them: there were parts of the plot (particularly in the third book) that were just annoying; the main bad guy was messed up and when they talked about some of the things he did, it bothered me; as far as I could tell, nobody slept together, but there were some times they were close and it definitely was a theme throughout the book; a child dies, which always bothers me (I almost stopped reading then); and finally, the fact that the premise of the book was about demons versus angels, I just don't really like stories based on that usually.
I won't be reading the rest of the series. It didn't draw me in enough (though I have read The Clockwork Angels series and liked that more).