Book Review: City of Bones
Friday, September 5th, 2008City of Bones is the first book in an electrifying new trilogy, in a genre that sometimes gets called “urban fantasy”. It’s all about demons and demonhunters and warlocks and werewolves, living side-by-side with “mundanes” in New York City, and about what happens when 15-year-old mundane Clary Fray suddenly finds herself becoming a part of this strange new world. If that sounds a bit Harry Potter-ish, you’re on the right track, although Harry Potter never spent much time dancing at Goth clubs or riding a vampire motorcycle over the Manhattan skyline at dawn.
Clary is out clubbing with her best friend Simon one night when she sees three teenagers kill another boy — who promptly disappears. Clary is shocked, but that’s nothing compared to how she feels when she’s attacked by a monstrous creature in her own home, or when her mother disappears. Eventually, Clary is going to have to face up to the fact that her life is a whole lot weirder than she thought — and even she may not be the person she thought she was.
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes (book 2)
City of Glass (book 3, coming in 2009!)