City of Bones

Death is scheduled on the calendar; not interrupting anyone too much, creating volunteer charity work to do. Solving various problems at crime scenes and tying up loose ends in the days afterward. The victim is always the area the crime scenes are in; the deceased has a first & last name. Money is a bit separate from area company supply stores; therefore, is directly applied to a person's worth. The calendar is first priority set by companies for their supplies and employee schedule; money is for worth. Emotional language is reserved for the weather and never agrees well with characters. It usually their scene and they want to use their words for the area; weather ones just don't fit. They always lose their argument.

I understand that this was the author's first book but seriously. Did they not have any editor or proof reader to support before publishing? The amount of times I found the lack of description is so annoying that even though I'm interested in the story itself, I won't give another chance and read the next books. They were standing in the hallway, now suddenly there is a desk and it's a room?! I am a person who visualize everything they read and this is so annoying for me. It ruined my enjoy.

I find City of Bones and its following sequels (City of Ashes, City of Glass) entrancing and lyrical. The characters are realistic and each of them are known for their own distinct character traits. Clary - The arty, self concious girl who tries desperately to rebel against her mother, yet also be more like her. Is confused to her feelings about Jace. Jace - arrogant, confident and extremely good looking. A skilled shadow hunter and hell does he know that. Is used to people doting on him. Tries to maintain an angsty teenager outlook so he can have excuses for being sullen. Isabelle - beautiful and sexy, she is used to boys falling at her feet. Isn't used to being around other girls as she has grown up with only Jace and Alec as friends her entire life. Tries to take the attention away from her brother's sexuality. Alec - the gay older brother of Isabelle, desperate to look good in Jace's eyes and be recognised as an equal. Simon - Clary's best friend. He has been in love with her since they were ten and has kept it to himself until now. Does not get along with Jace at all. As you can see, all the characters are completely different from each other, and none of them are just half completed. You know exactly who they are meant to be. I really enjoy these books as the fantasy in them is completely believable. Most fantasy books like this use old fashioned language to get across the idea of it being set in another world, however Cassandra Clare has cleverly created her own world somewhere in the middle of a twenty-first century American city. The characters really relate to teenage readers as they use 'teenage talk' and act like themselves. Minus the whole slaying demons thing, perhaps. Unless you do that, too. Overall, this series by Cassandra Clare is a brilliant trilogy, and readers will await the follow-up series The Infernal Devices that follows the adventures of shadow hunters one hundred years before The Mortal Instruments takes place.