This is
the first 3 in the Mortal Instrument series....
(read: April/11)
City of Bones
Mortal Instrument series, book 1
Pub: 2007, Walker Books Ltd.
Author: Cassandra Clare
Cat: fantasy & Magical
realism/fiction
Format: paperback (mid); 442 pp w/ 24
chapters
Age Range: YA
Synopsis
it’s after dark in New York City,
and Clary Fray is seeing things. The best-looking guy in the nightclub just
stabbed a boy to death – but the victim has vanished into thin air. Her mother
has disappeared, and a hideous monster is lurking in her apartment. With her
life spiralling into darkness, Clary realizes that she has stumbling into an
invisible war between ancient demonic forces and the secretive Shadowhunters –
a war in which she has a fateful role to play...
my Thoughts (review)
Okay so this book was awesome, I got
it when they were all in the smaller book and all sitting there waiting to buy,
so rather than having to wait, I got to read on after another, it was awesome.
She’s a great writer, like best, hadn’t read something like this in... since maybe
Harry Potter.
It’s got a great hidden world, and
even better characters. Like all the main ones in this book, awesome. Clary was
very much a teenager. Jace the bad boy with something in his eyes that makes
her body melt, or maybe it’s more that she sees him, Simon the best friend who
loves the one person that doesn’t see him that way, not even when he tells her.
The siblings Alec and Isabelle who are two totally different characters and
even though they don’t get that great
role in this book, they are there, and they are awesome. And then the wizard
Magnus, a very guy, very open male who likes what he sees in Alec’s blue eyes.
☼☼☼
City of Ashes
Mortal Instrument series, book 2
Pub: 2008, Walker Books Ltd.
Author: Cassandra Clare
Cat: fantasy & Magical
realism/fiction
Format: paperback (mid); 442 pp w/ 24
chapters
Age Range: YA
Synopsis
with her mother in a coma and her
father hellbent on destroying the world, Clary Fray is dragged deeper into New
York City’s terrifying underworld of werewolves, demons and the mysterious
Shadowhunters. Discovering the truth about her past was only the beginning. Now
the fate of the world rests on Clary’s shoulders, but can she master her
new-found powers and control her feelings for a boy who can never be hers?
my Thoughts (review)
This book was the best out of them
all, I thought. It got you laughing until you cried, made you pissed off at
adults and the fact that they treat someone who hasn’t anything to do with the
past like shit just because they are scared and don’t like the fact doesn’t
mean an innocent should be blamed.
It makes you feel sorry for three
different characters for three different reasons and even though it’s not got
that much info into the whole trilogy, or any more then you really need to get
you through this book and into needing to read the next, it’s great, and my
fav. Like really I laughed so hard at one part that I had to stop reading the
thing so that I could calm myself, it really was that great; there wasn’t a
part that wasn’t worth reading.
☼☼☼
City of Glass
Mortal Instrument series, book 3
Pub: 2009, Walker Books Ltd.
Author: Cassandra Clare
Cat: fantasy & Magical
realism/fiction
Format: paperback (mid); 442 pp w/ 24
chapters
Age Range: YA
Synopsis
Amid
the chaos of war, the Shaowhunters must decide to fight with the vampires, werewolves and other Downworlders – or against
them. Meanwhile, Jace and Clary have their own decision to make: should they
pursue the love they know is forbidden?
my Thoughts (review)
This book was great, like a finish
to a series we know goes on, and it’s what I truly meant about the trilogy
thing. All three books are written that way.
But this book had everything that
you needed to be able to put the thing aside and forget about it, sorta, if you
could truly forget something like this book.
So explanations are told both by
Clary’s mother and father, Jace learns to truths about himself, and one about
Clary. And it ends with fireworks that light up the sky and fill the hearts
with love. But still there are questions that I’m sure won’t be answered until
the next set of books, which make you need to read on. It really is a great set
of books and you would be kicking yourself if you have left them on the shelf,
truly they are worth the money.
Series
City
of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost
Souls, City of Heavenly Fire
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