Fifteen year-old Clary Fray thinks she’s normal until she goes out clubbing and sees three teenagers with weird tattoos murder a boy who then proceeds to vanish into thin air. Oh yeah, and no one else saw anything. After that, things start to get weird. I don’t know, I guess it’s pretty hard to carry on with your life after something like that. Just to add on to the crazy, Clary’s mother is kidnapped, and her house trashed, and she's swept up into a world of demons, monsters, and shadow hunters. Teamed up with three hard-core and slightly crazy shadow hunters, Clary has to beat the evil villain to the ultimate weapon, rescue her mother, and, you know, save the world
“I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them."
"Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.”
Hmmm… How do I describe it without using the word “awesome?”
City of Bones is really well written, everything is described in incredible detail, and you can imagine what everything and everyone looks like. The fight scenes are all really well described, and man, they have some of the coolest weapons. Also, the characters are really well rounded and believable, and everything they do is consistent to their character, even if it’s a little odd, especially the supporting characters. Clary’s a really good, feisty heroine, and has the mystical and magical power of sarcasm! Although Clary does say that “Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
Despite what some of the reviews say, the book really does translate well into audiobooks. While the first and the second books have different respective narrators, (yes, I’ve already started the sequel) both are very good and don’t make everyone sound like freaks.
So there you go, not a single “awesome” to be seen. Well except in that one sentence, but that doesn’t really count. I apologise for reviewing another book that I loved beyond measure and promise to review a book next week that I liked at least a little bit less than this one.
Feisty chick-o-meter: 10/10
Age Rating: 15+
Rating: 10/10
Book or audiobook: Audiobook
Stand alone or series: Series
Last word: All
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