Back from the Dead & Book Review
Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.
Rumours of my death have not been greatly exaggerated as I am, in fact, not dead. Blogging silence reigns when you have no internet access at work and when Twitter insidiously begins to take over your online life. Also when you’re in New Jersey playing wifey for Bear while he studies himself to the bone for med school exams: cleaning his apartment, buying groceries, dropping him off at school, and taking his computer to get fixed at the Apple store.
Nevertheless, I have been meaning to review Cassandra Clare’s CITY OF GLASS for a while; I bought it Tuesday and finished it that night but haven’t yet gotten around to organising my thoughts on it. I gave it another read Wednesday and Thursday because I admittedly skimmed large portions of it (especially the battle scenes) to find out what happens.
Review of CITY OF GLASS by Cassandra Clare
City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
I’ve mentioned before that I have a long history with the author, stemming back to when I used to read her HARRY POTTER fanfiction when I was 15. (Say what you will about fanfiction, but online fandom is an awe-inspiring and mighty thing.) While I was excited to read CITY OF BONES, I have been less excited about each subsequent novel, CITY OF ASHES and CITY OF GLASS. My buying the books on the days of release is part author loyalty ( such as it is), part obligation, and part curiosity. Curiosity is the major motivating factor of course because I don’t care much about the characters or the story but by gum tell me once and for all whether or not Jace and Clary are siblings so I can stop reading them whine all the time.
Spoilers to follow.
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