Book Review:The Mortal Instruments-City of Bones

The Mortal InstrumentsCity of BonesCassandra Clare

505pages

“City of Bones” is the first book in the fascinating row “The Mortal Instruments” by Cassandra Clair. The book is about a fifteen year old girl named Clarissa Fray, called Clary. Clary is a totally ordinary girl, or actually not…

When Clary and her best friend Simon go to “Pandemonium”, a dance club in New York City, she witnesses three teenagers following a blue haired boy and apparently without any reason they kill him. Clary is terrified. But then she realizes something, Clary is the only one able to see the mysterious young people with the woven ornaments tattooed all over their beautiful, muscular bodies. Shadowhunters.

When suddenly Clary’s mum is gone, Clary is attacked by a snakelike looking creature, called Ravener, a demon and Clary somehow wakes up in a Shadowhunter institute, she realizes that her mum wasn’t exactly the person she seemed to be. At the institute Clary gets to know Isabelle, Alec and Jace, Jace the young Shadowhunter who rescued her after the Ravener attack. She also meets the threes’ trainer Hodge and their slightly creepy cat church. Clair needs to find out where her mum is and Jace agrees to help her. Together with Isabelle and Alec they experience many spooky adventures that give you goose bumps.

Also interesting, I find, are the relationships between the protagonists. Simon and Clary are best friends but when Simon falls in love with Isabelle, Clary is not very happy with that. Isabelle is a very beautiful young Shadowhunter woman with shimmering long black hair. Clary doesn’t like her. She is too pretty Clary thinks. And I think the most interesting character is Jace because to the outside he is very hard and inapproachable but when he is with Clary, and only then, we get to know his gentle, caring side. Clary is attracted to him and Jace also likes Clary very much and in the beginning of the book you would gess they get together but ***SPOILERALARM*** in the end they find out that they are siblings. Which I personally found a bit of shocking, I really wouldn’t have awaited that.

The whole book is written very catchy and is an absolutely must-have-read for fantasy-fans. I think the book really shows situations in Clary’s when everything changes and I think Cassandra Clare did a very good job describing her reaction.

I would give the book                                               from five hearts.

I hope you enjoyed reading and found my review interesting.