City of Ashes ~ Cassandra Clare

[ganimede]

Book #21: 5 June, 2009 to 28 June, 2009

City of Ashes ~ Cassandra Clare

This is the sequel to City of Bones that I finished recently. I'd been assured by Blue, who'd read both of the books before me, that the second one was much better than the first. I tried to bear that in mind as I started to read but it is much easier said than done.

Comments

[hobbitblue]

oops, feel I steered you badly there, it was an improvemtn though still mind candy..

Not disagreeing witn any of your points, but if you disliked the first one so much and didn't find the second one improved it, I'm suprrised you finished it and want to bother with the third! I'm picky these days, if I'm not getting on with a book I give up - Stephen Deas The Adamantine Palace has got rave reviews and is very well written but the complex, almost machieavellian (sp) plot and the many charcters and intrigues just don't do it for me so its going back the library. Actually, you might like it, definitely several steps up from Cassie Claire!

[ganimede]

Oh, it was definitely an improvement! I know, it sounds bad but I think because I look on her more as a writer of fanfic, I accept that her writing is going to be of fanfic level. Maybe that makes me able to put up with it a bit more, I don't know. I generally don't like giving up on a book unless it's really absolutely appalling or I can't get into it.

I've seen that book in the library and I wasn't sure about it. It sounded rather complex which is a shame because it has dragons in it.

[hobbitblue]

Yes, the dragons didn't really outweigh the politciking for me... recent books I've loved you might also like are Brent Weeks Shadow trilogy, Gail Z Martin's The Summoner and I just finished the first Jim Butcher Codex Aldera book, so much more fun than his Dresden Files (which I'll read but don't really get drawn into). All three of these had me staying up well past bedtime for "just one more page.." which is pretty rare for me these days. No dragons, sadly.

[ganimede]

Ooo, recommendations! Which is the Shadow trilogy? I'm looking on Amazon and there's a series by Brent Weeks which all have shadow in the title, but there's also a Shadows of the Apt series. The Summoner does sound interesting, I'll certainly add that to my list of books to get. I'm not sure about the Jim Butcher one, it sounds a bit too much about war and politics for my liking - is that the case or not?

I'm just about to start The Shakespeare Secret, have you read that one?

[lilacfaeryboy]

I have to say I'm really enjoying the books...so I have nothing to add :) But thought I'd say hello anyway!

[ganimede]

Oh hello stranger!

[lilacfaeryboy]

Hello, how are you? *waves enthusiastically*