City of Bones by Cassandra ClareMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Clary Fray is seeing things: vampires in Brooklyn and werewolves in Manhattan. Irresistably drawn towards a group of sexy demon hunters, Clary encounters the dark side of New York City - and the dangers of forbidden love.
Ok, first things first: I read this purely becuase of the hype. And I was expecting some epic tale about battling demons to find your love, taken away when you were still in that cutesey honeymoon period.
Well, they do say to never judge a book by its cover. So, Clary's humdrum life become suddenly intersting when she meets a fit guy, snogs him, and imagines herself in love with him. Let me list a few problems with this:
1. this is not an epic love tale.
2. a snog in a greenhouse in the middle of the night does not constitute a realtionship
3. HE'S HER BLOODY BROTHER!!!!!!!!!!!
way to go, Cassandra Clare. Not only have you name your female protagonist after yourself, you save her a lot of heartbreak by conviently revealing that snogging love interest no.1 is very, very incestuous. (You'd think one would have a natural aversion to snogging one's own brother, wouldn't you? I mean, the whole gene pool thing) also what creeps me out is that they don't talk about it. It's like: "oh, you're my brother, how cool, never mind that I unwittingly had an incestual relationship with you". This is utterly unrealistic and idiotic. She should be completely and utterly weirded out by swapping saliva with her brother.
Complaint no. 2, the 'mystery' of her father is sooooo predictable. I mean, couldn't you have made it so that her mother had been having a torrid affair with a werewolf? Just to add a little interest?
I can tell this is going to end up with a Twilight-sized DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU WANT TO DIE sticker slapped on it, with red warning lights stationed at strategic positions to make you jump the highest, so I shall stop.
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