Review: City of Ashes-Cassandra Clare

Title: City of Ashes
Author:Cassandra Clare
Release Date: July 2008
Publisher: Walker Books
Page Amount: 416, Paperback
First Line: 'Are you still mad?'

DONT READ THIS REVIEW UNLESS YOU'VE READ CITY OF BONES!!! SPOILERS!!!!

Synopsis...

Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it would mean more time with her best friend, Simon, who's becoming more than a friend. But the Shadowhunting world isn't ready to let her go — especially her handsome, infuriating, newfound brother, Jace. And Clary's only chance to help her mother is to track down rogue Shadowhunter Valentine, who is probably insane, certainly evil — and also her father.

To complicate matters, someone in New York City is murdering Downworlder children. Is Valentine behind the killings — and if he is, what is he trying to do? When the second of the Mortal Instruments, the Soul-Sword, is stolen, the terrifying Inquisitor arrives to investigate and zooms right in on Jace. How can Clary stop Valentine if Jace is willing to betray everything he believes in to help their father?

Review...

Yet again, Cassandra Clare hasn't failed to capture our imagination and moulded our minds to her preference. A fantastic way to continue the series. Gripping from the very first words. We as readers have the pleasure of watching the characters grow into fierce fighters who can control what goes on and have the power to stop it. A roller coaster ride of a book, never stopping for you to step off until the last page. I must admit, this book is more gory than City of Bones, its not very graphic but still....there's quite a substantial amount of blood in this one. At times in this book, I literally gasped out loud because I was just completely in awe of the plot and what was happening.....page 180:'( Another fantastic flick through, can't wait till City of Glass. 5/5 A* once again:)

Review: City of Bones-Cassandra Clare

Title: City of Bones
Author: Cassandra Clare
Release Date: July 2007
Publisher: Walker Books
Page Amount: 448, Paperback
First Line: 'You've got to be kidding me'

Synopsis...

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing -- not even a smear of blood -- to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know. . . . 

Information: Goodreads

Review...

Well, what can I say, this book deserves more recognition than it has now! I'm not saying it should be Twilight/Harry Potter famous but people should know about the Mortal Instruments series!! This book was so easy to get into! Once you pick it up, you're hooked and you can read so much at a time. I read the majority of this in a week in France. Reading by the pool, sun beating down with a MI book, perfect:) This book combines romance & mystery with abnormal creatures such as vampires and werewolves. The storyline is nowhere near cliche and is completely original. To be quite honest, I prefer this series over Twilight and maybe even Hunger Games because of how unpredictable the plot is and the quirkyless of the characters. Speaking of characters, Clary is our main girl, we discover her and her friend Simon in a nightclub, Pandemonium, in New York. She spies an odd boy with bright blue hair and is enticed; she follows him. Clary sees that two men with weapons are closing in on the blue haired boy, Clary warns Simon but he is unable to see the men. Clary follows the boy into a spare room where a girl and two boys stood facing the blue haired boy. They killed him. They were shadowhunters. Shadowhunters are a breed of people who can only be seen by people who have the sight; the job of a Shadowhunter is to kill demons. The main storyline is about Clary's search into the Shadow world and their discovery of an evil man plotting against them. City of Bones is the first installment in The Mortal Instruments series of 5 books with a new release in 2014. I score this book 5/5 A*! Fantastic!!!!