City Of Bones by Cassandra Clare

This book tells the story of a girl who thought she lived a normal life until her mother was kidnapped and she was thrown into a world she didn’t know existed a world her mother hid her from. A world filled with vampires, werewolves, fairies, and hunters. Clary discovers that she is what they call a shadow hunter, a race of people that exist to keep the balance of good in the world; they fight against the demons that threaten to kill the world and keep order between the vampires and werewolves. With Clary’s mum gone she is forced to stay with the hunters and help to try and find her mother. Clary also searches to find out who she really is, why her mum hid her away from it all, who her mother was, and her father whom she thought had died. They discover that a shadow hunter turned bad, named valentine took Clary’s mum in hopes to find the mortal cup, a cup that can create shadow hunters.  Clary needs to find where they are hiding and figure out how to save her mum.

There is a love story in this one, between Clary and the boy who saved her and brought her into the shadow hunters whose name is Jace. They have a complicated relationship as Clary likes him however he is resistant to let anyone in and tries to push her away. Also it makes it hard when Clary’s best friend Simon gets involved in this world and has a massive crush on Clary and tries to win her heat. It is like most love stories a girl faced between her best friend and this golden mysterious boy.

The story line is a good idea and Cassandra Clare did a good job of making it come to life. City of bones is the first book in the series the mortal instruments. It was a good book. And I enjoyed the next two books which goes to that Clary has accepted who she is and has found her mum but her mother is in some sort of coma, and the story becomes about waking her up and preparing for a war between hunters and demons. However Cassandra Clare does lose it in some points, the love story between Clary and Jace becomes a bit annoying as they discover they are related, then all the sudden they are no longer related and it gets messy, she saved it at some points and I still enjoyed it. She has some very interesting characters through the series which makes it worth reading. However in my Belief Cassandra should have stopped at book three, it was a good ending and I had enjoyed it, then she bought out the next one and it was nowhere near the standard of the others and just seemed like she was desperate to keep it going, after reading the fourth I lost interest in the series and still have not been able to read the next one, maybe one day.