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Author: Cassandra Clare
Series: The Mortal Instruments #1
Date Started: March 12th 2013
Date Completed: March 18th 2013
Genres: Fantasy, Thriller, Romance, Action
Rating: Four stars
Review:
I was pleasantly surprised by this book. Again, I expected it to be a typically teenage vampire romance that I wouldn't enjoy. And to some extent that's true.
But I did actually enjoy it. It was a breath of fresh air to finally read a 3rd person book and the writing style was very good, which meant I was able to focus on the plotline of the story rather than stress about how badly written it was. (Although the long chapters did make it a little hard to read around school, but that's more of a technicality.)
The story was good. Not amazing, but not bad. It was a typical teenage story, but thankfully without all the unbearable romance. There was romance, but a good amount. The thing I liked was that there were a lot of other aspects to the books too: action, adventure, thrill, horror, fantasy and humour. There was a lot of other genres mixed in with the romance, some of which were as strong, which I found really helpful to get me into the story. My favourite part was that I didn't see the plot twists coming. At all. I have a reputation for predicting future events in books, but I couldn't even tell there was something big coming.
The characters were good. I certainly feel in love with Simon, he's adorable. I mean seriously. And I thought Jace and Clary made a good pair. I wasn't expecting it to work quite like that, but the relationship Clare produced was actually very believable and took advantage of the story, rather than overpowering it.
Overall, yes I enjoyed it, and I will be reading the other books in the series. I would recommend it to anyone who likes fantasy, thrillers and romance. I have a feeling the more typical-teenage-fiction lovers would be able to get more engrossed in it than I did for the pure example that they prefer the romance. But I definitely found enough else in this book to let me enjoy it.
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I was pleasantly surprised by this book. Again, I expected it to be a typically teenage vampire romance that I wouldn't enjoy. And to some extent that's true.
But I did actually enjoy it. It was a breath of fresh air to finally read a 3rd person book and the writing style was very good, which meant I was able to focus on the plotline of the story rather than stress about how badly written it was. (Although the long chapters did make it a little hard to read around school, but that's more of a technicality.)
The story was good. Not amazing, but not bad. It was a typical teenage story, but thankfully without all the unbearable romance. There was romance, but a good amount. The thing I liked was that there were a lot of other aspects to the books too: action, adventure, thrill, horror, fantasy and humour. There was a lot of other genres mixed in with the romance, some of which were as strong, which I found really helpful to get me into the story. My favourite part was that I didn't see the plot twists coming. At all. I have a reputation for predicting future events in books, but I couldn't even tell there was something big coming.
The characters were good. I certainly feel in love with Simon, he's adorable. I mean seriously. And I thought Jace and Clary made a good pair. I wasn't expecting it to work quite like that, but the relationship Clare produced was actually very believable and took advantage of the story, rather than overpowering it.
Overall, yes I enjoyed it, and I will be reading the other books in the series. I would recommend it to anyone who likes fantasy, thrillers and romance. I have a feeling the more typical-teenage-fiction lovers would be able to get more engrossed in it than I did for the pure example that they prefer the romance. But I definitely found enough else in this book to let me enjoy it.
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