City of Bones By Cassandra Clare

Synopsis/Summary:

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.

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⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

If I have to describe this book in one word, it would be: fascinating.

City of Bones is the first book of the first saga of the well-known author: Cassandra Clare. During this novel, you will be introduced to the shadowhunter’s world; with all its darkness, powers and, new relations. Clary Fray was just a normal girl living his sweet fifteen until she starts seeing things most people can’t. Strange tattoos, peculiar eyes, and… magic? From one day to another she will be forced to know the downworld in order to save her mother and answer all those questions she can not find an explanation for.

I loved this book and the experience of reading it. I consider that anyone could read City of Bones and be fascinated by it. It is not a difficult read, and if you are worried you are going to be overwhelmed by a whole new world, believe you will not. The introduction of it is well executed and it will be just as easy to understand, as immersing yourself in the story.

From the beginning of the book, you are absorbed by the supernatural aspects of the world. The shadowhuntes have their own political organization, and even though they live around the world with mundanes (humans) shadowhunters live in secret. You are nourished with details that made me want to devour the book. They have a country in the middle of Europe called Idris, where it can not be seen through the eyes of the human, and only entered by shadowhunter’s members. They are part angels, part humans and their goal in life is to kill demons. Every bit of information given about the world and the characters is mindblowing. You are consumed by it, as you were consumed with Howards. Cassandra Clare contributed me the same experience I had when I first read Harry Potter-- both YA novels in where the main character will have to know a new secret world, and prepare to comply with his/her role of the special kid, that until one minute ago they did not know about. Don’t get me wrong, they are nothing alike, but City of Bones will be a good read if you miss Harry Potter as much as I do.

Clary will be involuntary pushed to the darkness that New York’s streets embrace, and her world will make a rotund flip of 360°. She was just a normal girl who only wanted an ordinary adolescence, but that was not what her future had planned for her. I really could establish a connection with Clary. She has a great personality with the right amount of braveness and curiosity. All that stuff that she has to go through made me want to cry for her, but you do not cry because you know she is strong, she has to be strong in order to survive, in order to find all those answers that seem to be nowhere to be seen. Next to Clary is Jace Herondale, the pretty, narcissistic boy who is sarcastic all time ;) He is interested in the peculiarity of Clary and finds himself attached to her in more than one way. Cassandra gives you space in order to fall in love with him, even though you try hard not to.

The plot of the story is so well planned, and the fights in it make you believe you are really there, fighting all along with the characters, sweat on your forehead, and blood on your clothes. I know the end will leave your mouth open and with such a desire to read the next book.

To conclude, I am grateful I had the oportunity to read this fascinating novel and be able to comment about it with you :)