Name: City of Bones (City of Bones
Rating: 3.9227959697733 (3176 reviews)

Mike Raicht

City of Bones (City of Bones

 Cassandra Clare

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know...

City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1)

Kasey Crewse

---Negative Review---<br /><br /><br />I did not like this book. I found it at Wal-mart and decided to try it even though I've been duped by buying books from there before. Yet again not happy with this book. 200 pages of wasted time to get to something that seemed credible or exciting and wasn't. I thought this book was a waste of time and pages. Enough said. 

Priyanka

The book was quite interesting. It reminded me of Harry Potter and Twilight both. It was really predictable at times, like I was correct when I guessed Clary to be Valentine's daughter. But Jace is her brother?! That was the biggest twist! (And very unpredictable) They were having such a chemistry! :( I didn't like Alec much and Isabelle was good. Simon was probably friendzoned but now that Jace and Clary are siblings... he might have a chance. The plot was really unusual and a mixture of wolves, vampires, faeries and shadowhunters is quite a thriller. The book is really addictive. Worth reading! 5/5

Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.

City of Bones

JC M

Just as good as the first time I read it...

I am currently on a mission to read all the books that I missed in my early to mid teens and for what it is, this was a great read. In my current stage of life it obviously isn’t a literary masterpiece but given it’s age category I really enjoyed the read. It’s fun and quick but honestly gave me some icks pertaining to Clarys self descriptions. It’s just very 2010’s: (à la I hate that I’m so small and thin and tiny 👉👈). Also the sibling complex just really didn’t need to happen and even though I know it’s not real it still gives me the ick. 

Noumbé Diop

Mouth was gaping wide open during the last part! Finally started this series and very motivated to finish it! 

ophelia ross 

There wasn’t a moment where I wasn’t pissed the fuck off. They ALL annoyed me. If Cassie wants to hunch her siblings, she should just say that. It was gonna be 3 stars until that incest shit happened. 

🥔

Anna 

wow. prostě wow. musím uznat, že cassandra clare mi v celém čtení nadělala pěkný guláš, se kterým jsem ani v nejmenším nepočítala. jediné, na co jsem přišla, bylo to, kdo je clary otec, ale zbytek... uf, snad ještě nikdy jsem nebyla takhle zmatená z toho, co se v knize stalo. vážně autorce smekám, protože teďka vůbec nevím, co je pravda a co není.
další věci, které se mi kromě konce líbily, byly třeba hezké popisy. autorka popisuje až poeticky, používá hodně uměleckých slov. pro někoho by to bylo až moc, ale mně to nevadilo. postavu jace zatím nemám moc ráda, ale nevadí mi to, dokáže být vtipný, takže ho překousávám.
trochu mi vadila ER-forma vyprávění, ale na to si taky brzy zvyknu.
takže abych to nějak shrnula.. překvapilo mě to. příjemně. hodně jsem se bála, že se mi to nebude líbit, že se do čtení budu nutit, ale k mému překvapení se to četlo vážně moc hezky a je to originální nápad, celé to zabíjení démonů. ještě jsem to v ya knize neviděla.
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dávám 4,5*/5* a doufám, že další díly budou jen a jen lepší :)

Been going through a reading slump of sorts so I decided to revisit the series I used to love at 13 and I’m pleasantly surprised at how well this book reads despite its age. While there are moments in the book that is very telling of the book’s age, overall I didn’t feel that it totally poisoned the well.

I heavily enjoyed the world building and the consistency of the characters’ personalities although it was quite hilarious how Cassandra kept trying to insert random Latin phrases to evoke the feel of “old magic.”

Of the many things I’ve come across and rediscovered from this book, it’s probably my love for sarcastic banter and brooding male leads with a massive hero complex that I have this book to blame (or thank).

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Been going through a reading slump of sorts so I decided to revisit the series I used to love at 13 and I’m pleasantly surprised at how well this book reads despite its age. While there are moments in the book that is very telling of the book’s age, overall I didn’t feel that it totally poisoned the well.

I heavily enjoyed the world building and the consistency of the characters’ personalities although it was quite hilarious how Cassandra kept trying to insert random Latin phrases to evoke the feel of “old magic.”

Of the many things I’ve come across and rediscovered from this book, it’s probably my love for sarcastic banter and brooding male leads with a massive hero complex that I have this book to blame (or thank).

Moonchild

Ellie M.

This wasn't so bad like how people tell it to be. I was very hesitant to read TMI considering all the hate and criticism this gets from most of the readers on booktok, but I surprisingly LIKED it, and regret putting it off for a year, but not like enough to give it 4 stars. I've always loved fantasy books and this was a fresh start for me. 
I also now I perfectly understand why you had to start with this book first before proceeding to any of Cassandra Clare's other Shadowhunters series (like what I did, reading TID and TLH first). It provides explanations to her world-building such as the Clave, Downworld, The Accords, etc.

Just some parts I just didn't like: 
1. Clary lowkey being a pick-me girl. (I understand that this was a trend back in the days of early fiction books, but it's gotten old, and shouldn't even be written anymore) 
- though it's completely understandable since this was written back in 2008, and this was one of Cassie's first published books, so I'm looking forward to Clary's character development. 
2. Girl-on-girl hate. (Again, this trope is perfectly common in the early mid-2000s fiction books, but it shouldn't be here anymore because Clary was sarcastically referring to Isabelle like a slut MULTIPLE TIMES for dressing in her own girly style and for having a beautiful body and being an expert with boys)
- Cassie should've just described Izzy differently. She didn't have to "lowkey" sexualize her. SHE'S 16.
3. The Incest Trope. (I knew what I was getting myself into, so I'll just make fun of this trope till I find out why Jace and Clary are not really siblings and only she is Valentine's daughter because I'm aware that he is a Herondale and is SO MUCH like Will) 

What I liked: 
1. MAGNUS BANE 
2. Alec being annoyed with Magnus (their banter and THE SPARKS OMG) then Alec just smiling, laughing, and making jokes with Clary 
3. Jace and Alec's parabatai bond is cute and I can really tell that they're very close in a sense that they grew up together and knew each other very well. 
4. Isabelle's personality is very intimidating and I'm starting to like her for it. 
5. Simon Lewis. He's someone I would want as a bestfriend. 
6. Valentine is actually an interesting name for a villain and I really want to know his plans for The Mortal Instruments, now that he got away with the cup. 

P.S. 

I don't understand why Clary gets so much hate with the implications that she's very annoying. I was simply irritated that she was a lowkey 'pick-me girl' among other things, but she really wasn't as I anticipated and her reactions and constant questioning about everything were valid and accurate for a 16-year old girl whose life was suddenly turned upside down by the fact that she's not entirely human. She is still a CHILD. Her immaturity and impulsiveness is natural. She will grow and learn, so let's just allow her to act like a child and not get mad at her for it.

Sarah Sammis

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare is the first of the Mortal Instruments series. It opens with Clary Fray seeing something unbelievable at the Pandemonium Club. Her eyes open to a parallel society that involves vampires, werewolves and other magical creatures opens her to danger. To make matters worse, her mother goes missing.

For the first 2/3 of the book I enjoyed figuring out the mystery along side Clary as Jace tried to show her the ropes. Much of the world building is done through Clary's education.

And then it goes pear shaped, becoming a Frankenstein's monster mashup of Scooby Doo, the Wonder Twins and Star Wars. Except for the first two seasons of Scooby Doo, I'm not a fan. This mash up was not a good thing for me. Seriously, the YA twin trope has to die a horrible death. The sooner the better.

I have the remaining books in the series because my husband read them first. I do plan to finish the series, but I'm not as enthusiastic about that prospect as I once was.

Lindy

A list of every awkward simile (and a couple metaphors) in Chapter 1 of  City of Bones by Cassandra Clare


He had electric blue dyed hair that stuck up around his head like the tendrils of a startled octopus.

It bent as easily as a blade of grass bending sideways.

The boy slid past him, quick as an eel.

[….] where the sun hung limp in the sky like a burned cinder.

[….] long hair nearly the precise color of black ink. [Note: normally i wouldn’t flag this, but the author could’ve just said that the character had inky black hair and been done with it.]

He could already feel the power of her evaporating life coursing through his veins like fire.

The girl was a pale ghost retreating through the colored smoke.

[….] their colored hair extensions tangled together like vines.

The blue-haired boy straightened up suddenly, snapping to attention, like a hunting dog on point.

Through the darkness, smoke, and artificial fog, her pale dress shone out like a beacon. [Note: I would have written that the dress beaconed through the darkness, and so on.]

In the faint light she looked half-transparent, bleached of color, wrapped in white like an angel. It would be a pleasure to make her fall…

Her smile glittered like poisonous water. [Whatever that means]

His tawny eyes glittered like chips of amber.

[….] her black hair hanging down her back like damp seaweed.

[….] whose hair gleamed like brass in the dim light coming through the windows high above.

It was oddly translucent, the blade clear as crystal, sharp as a shard of glass [….]

Jace turned the blade in his grasp, the edge sparking like a line of fire.

[….] the blue-haired boy tearing at Jace with hands that glittered as if tipped with metal.

Swift as a flick of Isabelle’s whip [….]

and that was only the first chapter...

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