Book Review: The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones (by Cassandra Clare)
ACHTUNG ACHTUNG! BEWARE! WARNING!
CONTAINS SPOILERS TO BOOK 1, 2 AND 3!!!!
I bought it, started reading.. couldn't put it down!
At some point, i was laying in bed and i said to myself just 1 more chapter.. that soon became 3 chapters.. when i finally did put it down, i couldn't sleep i kept on thinking what would happen now that Hodge (their 'mentor') had dissapeared and Valentine had kidnapped Jace and what Clary would do, since she loved him SFM.. I turned on the damn light again and finished the book..
so here is what i think..
In the beginning you get to meet Clary and Simon, as being good friends.. from the beginning it is obvious to the reader that Simon is in love with her, to Clary this isn't, apparently, obvious. Clary witnesses the murder off the blue haired demon, which she thought was a human, by our new friends: The shadowhunters.. Isabelle, Alec and Jace. Which is all good and great.. well written chapters and very detailed characters written in a third person perspective.. at some point in the book Clary finds out that her mother, Jocelyn Fray, was a shadowhunter and with that, so is Clary.. Jace tells Clary that his father has learned him that 'to love is to destroy' so that he has never felt love before.. Simon decides this is a good time to start making Clary jealous and starts drooling all over Isabelle, Clary still doesn't get it.. (madam has got 'the sight' (read: she can see shadowhunters, Demons etc while normal humans can't) but something such as obvious as simon's feeling she is blind too).
It's the evening of Clary's birthday and Jace knocks on her door for a midnight birthday picnick in he roof garden.. my inner fangirl starts going all hyper and i squeel like a pig when they finally kiss.. Jace brings her back to her room and in the hallway they kiss again.. *squee* Simon, who crashed on Clary's bed, opens the door and starts freaking out.. Jace tells Clary that the whole kissing thing wasn't a big deal.. Clary is hurt, Simon is happy to be (somewhat) rid of Jace..
Then you read a couple of pages from what Jace is feeling/thinking and you can see he's falling in love with Clary, but he doesn't recognize the feeling, since he has never loved before..
They find the Mortal Cup, a cup which can make normal children into shadowhunters, one off the three mortla intruments that Valentine is trying to find, and Alec is badly injured in the whole fight.. Back at the institute Jace and Clary are more concerned over how Alec will hold up than over the cup, so they forget they even have that thing.. Jace and Clary stand in a hallway, heads and noses touch eachother, Jace says: 'Oh Clary, what is happening to me' (you're in love dipshit!) and then Hodge walks in to ruin the freaking moment! they go to his office, they talk, clary says 'oh but i do have the cup', Hodge is happy, Valentine comes to get the dang thing, knocking Jace to the ground, Clary had hidden herself.. Valentine takes Jace with him, Hodge makes a run for it..
Luke, the werewolf 'uncle' and good friend off her mother, who is actually called Lucian tells Clary that (to make a long story short) Valentine is her father *dun dun dun duuun*.. so Luke and his pack go with Clary to Valentine..
Clary sees Jace in new, unbloody clothes, his wounds are in bandages,.. the boy's been looked after.. so they are all happy to see eachother.. and then.. Jace says that there's been a mistake.. andit's all flowers, bees, honey and sugarplums now.. yes because, guess what, his father wasn't death, no.. his father is here.. ZOMG i think.. Michael Wayland is still alive, isn't that great.. Clary tells him that Valentine is Lying to him, and Jace says that he's seen his father so it's the truth, because his father has given him the clothes he's wearing.. than VALENTINE walks in to ruin the moment.. and.. ugh.. Jace and he go all 'yes father' 'how great son' *puke*.. Clary tells Jace that Valentine is lying to him.. and valentine tells Jace is his sister.. Jace is shocked.. (who isn't)..
Valentine, the smart guy, figured out that Clary is in Love with Jace and tells Jace this.. blah blah blah.. Valentine goes trough a portal to Idris, Clary and Jace go home... They still love eachother like maniacs.. and at the end Clary convinces Jace to come with her to see Jocelyn, her mother, whom is also his mother..
i loved the book, it's well written, detailed and an addictive story..
but, Cassie ruined the book by making those two siblings..
The sexual tension between them was utterly perfect.. and at the end all i could think off was not to throw up..
So i threw the book aside..
when i got home (i read it on vacation) i read the synaposis off book 2 and 3 on wiki.
great way to spoil it, but i just had to know, was she going to keep up with this bullshit?
apparently so, in book 2, Clary still madly in love with Jace, and them being siblings apparently doesn't stop them from making out, starts dating Simon for awhile.. and at some point not anymore.. and in Book 3, yes people, she saved her own damn book series! It is said that Jace was the son off two other peepz and that the woman killed herself and Valentine cut her preggerz belly open and raised jace himself.. and apparently we do meet the REAL Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern, Clary's brother..
Oh and Alec, is gay and in love with Jace.. lol... just brilliant..
So short version:
Read this book, it's awesome, BUT do read all 3 off the series to get ur Clary/Jace fix.. because if you just read book one (like me) the whole thing will suck..
Tonight, i will start in book two.. so.. i'll review that too.. Hollah!