Sunday, 24 January 2016

City Of Bone Book Review


Hey guys! I’m back with another book review for you guys. By the title I think you know what book I’m going to be reviewing.

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare is the first instalment of The Mortal Instruments series. It’s the second book I read from my TBR and I’m quite proud I finished this book because it’s been a long time since I’ve read a book this long (its 506 pages for those of you guys are wondering). It’s actually nice to read this book when I didn’t have access to the internet since there was no distractions and I could just focus on the book. I’ll just be honest and say that I watched the movie before reading this book (obviously) and because of that, I actually know what is going to happen and what to expect. At first I thought the movie was really good but now that I’ve read the book, I can understand why some people thought that the movie could be better. There are scenes from the book that I would love to see in the movie but thank god there is the series. Hopefully they don’t cut the scenes that I want to see come to live. Thanks to the movie, when reading this book, I pictured the actors from the movie portraying the characters in the book (I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing).

The book itself is fantastic. It was a drastic genre change from my previous read but it feels nice to be reading a fantasy book. Reading fantasy books makes me feels right at home since my favourite book genre is definitely fantasy books (I grew up reading tons of them). This book is a more of a mature read in my opinion since there are many sarcastic remarks that I feel not many people under the age of 13 would understand. I love it, all the sarcastic remarks and banter that Jace and Clary exchange. It’s a nice change from what I’m used to reading.

I would say that I have high hopes for this book since there are a lot of good reviews online and I am not disappointed. It meets my expectation and maybe even exceeded it. I’m giving this book a 5/5 rating. My next goal now is to save up enough money to buy the second book. Hopefully that would be soon, even though the cliff hanger at the ending is subtle, I WANT MORE.

-Natalie :D

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