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City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
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bookshelves: 2013, female-lead, reviewed, why-do-girls-like-this-guy, caps-smash-rage, brats-posing-as-strong-females, horrible-people, hot-but-doesnt-think-they-re-hot, is-stupider-for-having-read-this, the-support-characters-were-better, magic-werewovles-supernatural-stuff, punch-a-protagonist, has-a-movie-or-tv-series, romance-and-squishyness, you-re-in-a-triangle-feeny, queer-characters, one-star, guy-is-really-really-good-looking, 2015, reread
Sep 09, 2013
bookshelves: 2013, female-lead, reviewed, why-do-girls-like-this-guy, caps-smash-rage, brats-posing-as-strong-females, horrible-people, hot-but-doesnt-think-they-re-hot, is-stupider-for-having-read-this, the-support-characters-were-better, magic-werewovles-supernatural-stuff, punch-a-protagonist, has-a-movie-or-tv-series, romance-and-squishyness, you-re-in-a-triangle-feeny, queer-characters, one-star, guy-is-really-really-good-looking, 2015, reread
I was recommended this book by a friend and I had seen so much hype about it on my Tumblr dashboard that I finally gave in. Now let me start by saying two things. I honestly wanted to like this. I had seen mixed reviews, but I still decided that I wanted to like it.
I did find out all about the drama-filled history this particular author has. While I agree with the evidence, I've seen that doesn't have any weight on how I felt about this book.
That being that it was nothing more than a decent idea sloppily pasted together with similes and outfit descriptions.
If Clare had spent half as much time focusing on world building as she did constantly describing the golden, amber, halo, lion sex beauty that was Jace Jonathan Christopher Morgensten Wayland, then she might have had something here.
Instead, she just seemed to throw out terms from her world giving them no real life or connection. Like Clave, Accords, Covenant, and Shadow-Hunter. I can honestly say I'm not one hundred percent sure what any of those are or do.
Like is the Clave a governing body? It seems like that when anyone states that the Clave will be angry about this, that, or the other. But then a few times I noted that Jace claimed to be one of the Clave. So is the Clave their ruling body, is it another word for Shadow-hunters? Or is it just a word that we'll throw in anytime we want something to sound good an official? I really don't know.
The Covenant is brought up a few times in regards to their relationship with Down-worlders. In that doing x or y would go against the Covenant. I thought what they could and couldn't do to each other were the Accords. Is it two words for the same thing? Is there a difference?
As for Shadow-hunters themselves we don't even really get a clear picture of what makes a shadow-hunter a shadow-hunter. Sometimes it's being born that way with the special blood, but also then training, and runes, but then the cup can be used to make more shadow-hunters but only certain people. Again this is never really made clear and would have been more interesting to elaborate on than the amber fleck in Jace's honey golden eyes.
And another thing. If their duty, I assume, is to protect humanity and the human world why do they appear to regard humans (mundanes) as lesser creatures? Parts of the book they're pouting about the fact that the number of shadow-hunters is dwindling, but yet they have a law against marrying mundanes? Why not make repopulate with mundanes? At one point, they were still assuming that either Clary's father or mother was a mundane but she still had special shadow-hunter DNA because "Clave blood is dominant." (Again what the heck is the Clave then?)
All and all the consistency was sloppy, the world building wasn't well thought out for the enormous potential it had, and the characters fell flat. 90% of the characters in this book only had one setting and that was banter and snark. No matter how dire or emotional the situation the auto-response was sarcasm and snark. It grew tiresome. I want to see characters grow and react not just throw out "funny" lines.
Now I know a lot of people seem to love and enjoy these books. I can tell by the reviews alone. So I'm just going to reiterate that this is my opinion. I don't wish to bicker or fight with anyone about it. Just keep on enjoying it my review shouldn't take any of that from you.
This really could be better.
Read: Sept 9 - 12 (2013)
Re-Read: Jan 1 - 8th (2015)
I did find out all about the drama-filled history this particular author has. While I agree with the evidence, I've seen that doesn't have any weight on how I felt about this book.
That being that it was nothing more than a decent idea sloppily pasted together with similes and outfit descriptions.
If Clare had spent half as much time focusing on world building as she did constantly describing the golden, amber, halo, lion sex beauty that was Jace Jonathan Christopher Morgensten Wayland, then she might have had something here.
Instead, she just seemed to throw out terms from her world giving them no real life or connection. Like Clave, Accords, Covenant, and Shadow-Hunter. I can honestly say I'm not one hundred percent sure what any of those are or do.
Like is the Clave a governing body? It seems like that when anyone states that the Clave will be angry about this, that, or the other. But then a few times I noted that Jace claimed to be one of the Clave. So is the Clave their ruling body, is it another word for Shadow-hunters? Or is it just a word that we'll throw in anytime we want something to sound good an official? I really don't know.
The Covenant is brought up a few times in regards to their relationship with Down-worlders. In that doing x or y would go against the Covenant. I thought what they could and couldn't do to each other were the Accords. Is it two words for the same thing? Is there a difference?
As for Shadow-hunters themselves we don't even really get a clear picture of what makes a shadow-hunter a shadow-hunter. Sometimes it's being born that way with the special blood, but also then training, and runes, but then the cup can be used to make more shadow-hunters but only certain people. Again this is never really made clear and would have been more interesting to elaborate on than the amber fleck in Jace's honey golden eyes.
And another thing. If their duty, I assume, is to protect humanity and the human world why do they appear to regard humans (mundanes) as lesser creatures? Parts of the book they're pouting about the fact that the number of shadow-hunters is dwindling, but yet they have a law against marrying mundanes? Why not make repopulate with mundanes? At one point, they were still assuming that either Clary's father or mother was a mundane but she still had special shadow-hunter DNA because "Clave blood is dominant." (Again what the heck is the Clave then?)
All and all the consistency was sloppy, the world building wasn't well thought out for the enormous potential it had, and the characters fell flat. 90% of the characters in this book only had one setting and that was banter and snark. No matter how dire or emotional the situation the auto-response was sarcasm and snark. It grew tiresome. I want to see characters grow and react not just throw out "funny" lines.
Now I know a lot of people seem to love and enjoy these books. I can tell by the reviews alone. So I'm just going to reiterate that this is my opinion. I don't wish to bicker or fight with anyone about it. Just keep on enjoying it my review shouldn't take any of that from you.
This really could be better.
Read: Sept 9 - 12 (2013)
Re-Read: Jan 1 - 8th (2015)
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Reading Progress
September 8, 2013
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0.2%
"What kind of night clubs have long waits and large attendances on a Sunday evening? I'm probably just nitpicking."
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1
September 8, 2013
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1.38%
"Clary, sweeheart, if you're so worried that something bad might happen to this blue-haired guy why did it take you nearly a page of talking to tell your friend one of those guys had a knife? PRIORITIES sweetheart! First thing out of your mouth should have been he's got a knife not hey you remember that kid I was staring at earlier...."
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7
September 8, 2013
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3.56%
"It worries me that I cared more about the demon in the last chapter. He was the one written with all the fear and emotion. I don't think I was suppose to worry more about him than the four other characters present in the storage closet."
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18
September 8, 2013
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4.74%
"SHORT CHICKS CAN BE BEAUTIFUL TOO BEING SHORT DOESN'T JUST LIMIT YOU TO BEING CUTE. Effing hate this everyone else is so pretty and I'm so plain and not troupe for female protagonist in writing."
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September 8, 2013
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8.7%
"How can you say 'all stories are true' and then call mummies bullshit when there are stories about mummies?"
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44
September 8, 2013
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8.89%
"What's with all the scene breaks that are really just a continuation of what just happened? The phone goes dead. Scene break. Re-open on Clary immediately reacting to what just happened. Does Clare and/or her editor know what scene breaks are?"
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45
September 8, 2013
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9.29%
"Maybe I spoke too soon. Chapter Four opens with a horrible little simile about swimming through boiling soup because that's something people can draw reference to."
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47
September 8, 2013
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9.49%
"Clary stop being such a useless protagonist! You just a terrifying phone call from your mother! You raced 'through boiling soup' to get home! Why are you standing around letting your neighbor whine about shit she wants Luke to do for her and the noise your mom was making? GET MOVING IDIOT!"
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48
September 9, 2013
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Started Reading
September 9, 2013
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September 9, 2013
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0.4%
"'There was a word for him that her mother would have used-insouciant.'
Not going to lie. Had to look that word up. Why the word 'indifferent' wasn't used is beyond me. And why are there so many people trying to get into a club on a Sunday night anyway? I haven't been to many clubs but I know Sunday is usually a dead night."
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2
Not going to lie. Had to look that word up. Why the word 'indifferent' wasn't used is beyond me. And why are there so many people trying to get into a club on a Sunday night anyway? I haven't been to many clubs but I know Sunday is usually a dead night."
September 9, 2013
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0.59%
"I thought hiking up your skirt and show a little leg to lure someone off only worked in cartoons."
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3
September 9, 2013
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0.59%
"I thought hiking up your skirt and showing a little leg to lure someone off only worked in cartoons."
page
3
September 9, 2013
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0.79%
"Seem kind of surprised that a door that says no admittance storage takes you into a storage room."
page
4
September 9, 2013
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0.79%
"'...with the occasional lunges towards the floor as if one of them had dropped a contact lens.'
I feel like I'd be drawn more into the story right now if every other line wasn't a simlie. So far a lot of them have been weird and it breaks me out of the narrative."
page
4
I feel like I'd be drawn more into the story right now if every other line wasn't a simlie. So far a lot of them have been weird and it breaks me out of the narrative."
September 9, 2013
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1.38%
"What the hell Clary?! You see some guys follow two people into a closet with a knife and it takes you several lines of back and forth with your friend to spit it out? Just say they have a knife! He doesn't need to know all the details of what's happened with him since he arrived! PRIORITIES MISSY!"
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7
September 9, 2013
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1.58%
"Pfft. Clary worrying that by the time Simon gets back. Again where was that thought process when you took a page to say something about the knife."
page
8
September 9, 2013
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2.17%
"I'm probably supposed to be siding with these shadow-hunters. Only I feel more for this blue-haried demon guy. His dying world, being now tied and tortured in the storage room. All the adjectives describing him are pained. Pleading with information. Kind of makes these shadow-hunters look like jack asses."
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11
September 9, 2013
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2.17%
"Also, how good of our heroine to jump out right before they try to kill this guy. Why didn't she speak up sooner? You know when she saw an seemingly innocent guy all tied up by these guys? Oh right. She had to hear the entire info dump."
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11
September 9, 2013
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2.37%
"AND ANOTHER THING...why can't people who are obviously trained to hunt and kill demons not sense some girl lurking around in a storage space with them? I guess they were too distracted with their info dump."
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12
September 9, 2013
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3.16%
"If I have to hear Jace be compared to a lion one more time I might throw something."
page
16
September 9, 2013
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4.74%
"SHORT CHICKS CAN BE BEAUTIFUL TOO! SCREW YOU BOOK! And I really really dislike the whole everyone else is so beautiful but I feel so plain and awkward even though I'm super beautiful troupe."
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24
September 9, 2013
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6.72%
"Simon's dropping please date me hints that lack any sort of subtle nature."
page
34
September 9, 2013
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7.11%
""Just coffee. Black-like my sould."
ahahahaha...pretty sure heard/read that one in something written by every teenager trying to be witty ever.
Starting to think my friend told me to read this book as a mean joke."
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36
ahahahaha...pretty sure heard/read that one in something written by every teenager trying to be witty ever.
Starting to think my friend told me to read this book as a mean joke."
September 9, 2013
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7.31%
"I noticed the author loves telling us what clothes people are wearing. Even characters who are just kind of there. I didn't need to know that the blond girl playing with her iPod was wearing an orange tank top. It added nothing to the story for me. If anything is was just distracting."
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37
September 9, 2013
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7.51%
"Simon's whole talking to Clary about his needing a girlfriend is so awkward and predictable it's painful to read."
page
38
September 9, 2013
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7.71%
""If I were, I would dress better."
Why do people play to the idea that being gay automatically makes you fashion savvy? Though this author has such a preocupation with outfits so I'm not surprised."
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39
Why do people play to the idea that being gay automatically makes you fashion savvy? Though this author has such a preocupation with outfits so I'm not surprised."
September 9, 2013
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8.7%
"If 'all stories are true' then why not mummies? There are stories about mummies. They have zombies, apparently, aren't mummies kind of like tp'd zombies?"
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44
September 9, 2013
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8.89%
"I noticed this already a few times so far, but I don't think this author knows how scene breaks work. You don't put a break if the next scene is an IMMEDIATE continuation of what just happened. Like Clary losing her mom on the phone -scene break- Clary still screaming frantically into the phone because the line went dead."
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45
September 9, 2013
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9.29%
""..and running home felt like swimming as fast as she culd through boiling soup."
I spoke too soon. I was starting to trust you book why did you open the chapter with a simile. A really painful one at that?! Swimming through boiling soup?! REALLY?!"
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47
I spoke too soon. I was starting to trust you book why did you open the chapter with a simile. A really painful one at that?! Swimming through boiling soup?! REALLY?!"
September 9, 2013
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9.68%
"WHAT THE HELL CLARY!! You just had a terrifying phone call from your mother. SHE COULD BE DEAD! And you're making chit chat with the downstairs neighbor. DO YOU HAVE NO SENSE OF URGENCY. BLOW OFF THE CRAZY OLD BAT. You don't have to stop and try to correct her on the fact that Luke isn't your mom's boyfriend or the landlord!"
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49
September 9, 2013
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9.68%
"And furthermore book you don't have to stop this potentially exciting portion of the narrative to inform us about this old lady is just so silly and always like this. Asking Luke to fix stuff and do things for her. THIS IS NOT IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW THERE ARE LIFE OR DEATH MATTERS AT HAND."
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49
September 9, 2013
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10.67%
"Why can't we get an information, info dump or otherwise, on other potentially interesting details. Jace usually loves info dumping so where is the information on demons having a way of covering their tracks? Why are demons showing up disguised as police officers to cover for other demons? They sneak into this world and nom on humans right? Why are they helping keep the secret world ruse the shaodwhunters keep?"
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54
September 9, 2013
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11.07%
""All her thoughts ran as thickly and slowly as blood or honey."
If this weren't on my kindle I'd toss it across the room right now."
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56
If this weren't on my kindle I'd toss it across the room right now."
September 9, 2013
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11.46%
"I hope, but I'm not holding my breath, that this baby fist sized disembodied heart red pendant that Isabelle keeping being described as wearing is important. Though I wouldn't be shocked if it was just more needless clothing descriptions."
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58
September 9, 2013
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11.86%
"Why is it that a guy being rude is considered 'so damn sexy'?
Honestly I think Jace is more of a twit than desirable."
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60
Honestly I think Jace is more of a twit than desirable."
September 9, 2013
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11.86%
"Clary you haven't even really met these people, save for one time in a storage closet, stop pressing Isabelle to give you Jace's backstory. It's none of your business and not Isabelle's story to tell."
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60
September 9, 2013
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12.25%
"Maybe I'm counting the wrong thing. Maybe instead of counting how many times a simile is used I should be counting when Clare describes someone's outfit. Seriously. What is it with Clare and people's outfits."
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62
September 9, 2013
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14.23%
"The more random information I get about these shadow-hunters the more I start to think they sound like a group of elitist dicks. (And I say random because I still have no concrete idea of what they do just about of random crap about how they can't marry 'mundies' and you know runes and demons and what not.)"
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72
September 9, 2013
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14.23%
"An old-fashioned phone with a rotary dial. Why do all 'magical' societies insist on living in long dead centuries. You're magical! Why isn't your stuff one hundred times more than ours? If you're 'better' than us why are you so behind on the times?"
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72
September 9, 2013
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14.62%
""Most people don't cry when thy're upset or frightened, but rather when they're frustrated."
Yeah. Okay."
page
74
Yeah. Okay."
September 9, 2013
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15.81%
"Why doesn't the Clave sound like very nice people Clary? From what I can tell they told Valentine he was bat crap crazy and couldn't just kill off downworlders."
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80
September 9, 2013
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16.4%
"Okay so you don't 'do' magic. Then the application of runes to, say, make yourself invisible is.....?"
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83
September 9, 2013
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16.8%
"I'm glad Clary finally showed some signs of life by questioning and then slapping pretty boy sass mouth for almost getting her killed on a hunch."
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85
September 9, 2013
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16.8%
"And I already dislike her again. Let's just dislike girls for their fake tans and pink jelly mules. Hurrah unnecessary girl hate."
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85
September 9, 2013
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16.8%
"....She nearly forgot Jace was cute? Oh God Clary why does it matter?! Your mom was taken why does your brain eventually always wander back to Jace's lion sex looks? (I don't care how 'hot' he is his personality is the worst.)"
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85
September 9, 2013
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17.0%
"Jace thinks modesty is only a trait for ugly people. This is the guy we're supposed to think is just so dreamy."
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86
September 9, 2013
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17.79%
"For a super awesome experienced shadowhunter Jace sure does get thrown off or surprised a lot."
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90
September 9, 2013
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18.77%
"So there are more of these Forsaken in Clary's apartment? Are they all just sitting quietly in a room waiting for the door to open like an event trigger in a video game? What kind of nimrod would just sit his slave army in little rooms with orders of don't attack unless they open the door. How about someone enters the apartment munch their faces off?"
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95
September 9, 2013
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19.17%
"So Jace goes from no don't go telling the Clave about Clary when with Hodge but then he finds out about Dorothea and is all I'll tattle to the Clave on you. I'm not sure even the author knows what that Clave does or doesn't do."
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97
September 9, 2013
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19.96%
"Jace doesn't know what eBay is. Again you live in our world, you go our clubs, you are apparently supposed to be able to blend in so no one clues into what super special demon hunters you are. The fact that you know nothing about modern day things is just baffling and stupid."
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101
September 9, 2013
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22.53%
"So Clary disappears completely doesn't answer her phone, home phone disconnected, Luke blatently lies and Simon's inclination is that he did something to piss her off.
Idiot."
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114
Idiot."
September 9, 2013
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23.32%
"Reading Simon prattle about sexy vampires, elf-women, and Dungeons and Dragons is making me die of second hand embarrassment."
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118
September 9, 2013
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25.1%
""Jocelyn? Can they be talking about my mother?"
You're really too stupid to live aren't you Clary?"
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127
You're really too stupid to live aren't you Clary?"
September 9, 2013
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26.09%
""She wondered if it was wrong that she was glad in some way that the men who'd taken her mother were the same me who'd killed Jace's father all those years ago.'
Okay apparently it's because now he has to help her but seriously Clary that's a twisted mentality given that it seems like he was already going to help you. Seems more like you just want to share in his manpain."
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132
Okay apparently it's because now he has to help her but seriously Clary that's a twisted mentality given that it seems like he was already going to help you. Seems more like you just want to share in his manpain."
September 9, 2013
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27.47%
"Why is it assumed that all 'bad ass' women are terrible cooks? Cooking is bad ass. Fire, knives, and it's all about timing. Seriously why does skilled female fighter automatically mean horrible cook?
And they can't even just be mediocre at it. Pretty much every time they're flat out horrible at it."
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139
And they can't even just be mediocre at it. Pretty much every time they're flat out horrible at it."
September 9, 2013
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28.85%
"So earlier Hodge couldn't possibly understand why anyone would attack Clary's poor normal mother, but now they come back a few hours later and he's all oh yeah Clary's mom was Valentine's wife and in our Shadowhunter KKK"
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146
September 10, 2013
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29.84%
"So Clary questions why the Lightwoods weren't punished/cursed for staying in The Circle and Hodge's immediate response is there were extenuating circumstances in their case they were married. So being married gets you a lesser punishment? Just as long as you and your spouse commit the crime together?"
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151
September 10, 2013
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29.84%
"I hardly even feel these people were 'punished'. The Lightwoods get to run the NY Shadowhunter 'embassy' and get to go to their magical land on business. Hodge just can't go home but still is free to teach future shadowhunters? If all three of them were in this group why are they allowed to stay together? Wouldn't you want to separate them to keep them in check?"
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151
September 10, 2013
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30.43%
"The evil thing being 'sorta hot' is a completely detached from the story thing to think about a villain who is supposed to be super bad news for your kind. I bet it was a line intended to be funny but it's seriously off putting."
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154
September 10, 2013
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31.23%
"Why does Jace seem to think Clary has a memory of where her mom is being kept? I mean I'm certain what he's suggesting is going to be the correct solution just the fact that he pulled it out his bum with no real reason is bothersome."
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158
September 10, 2013
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31.62%
"Still haven't really seen any redeemable qualities from these shadowhunters. They're really just a pack of rude brats. For a group that apparently protects humanity they're pretty vile and resentful towards anyone who isn't super special like them."
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160
September 10, 2013
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31.82%
"Even in, what I assume is, a dream sequence we have to hear how painfully pretty Jace is."
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161
September 10, 2013
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32.21%
""Church was there with him, muttering and circling restlessly."
Sooooo we're not really going to comment on the fact that the cat is muttering. No? Okay."
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163
Sooooo we're not really going to comment on the fact that the cat is muttering. No? Okay."
September 10, 2013
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32.61%
"I still don't understand why it's forbidden for shadowhunters to marry mundanes if 'the blood of the Clave is dominant.' If their blood is dominant then baby making with normal people would help repopulate their kind."
page
165
September 10, 2013
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34.39%
"Earlier Clary claimed to Hodge she wanted to find who took her mother and kill them. Now she doesn't understand Jace's want for the same vengence. CONSISTENCY! IT MEANS SOMETHING. It's hard to have faith in a writer who can't even keep her MAIN CHARACTER consistent."
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174
September 10, 2013
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34.78%
""But if you had the Mortal Cup, you could make more, right? More demon hunters?"
Or OR you could stop being bigots and breed with humans."
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176
Or OR you could stop being bigots and breed with humans."
September 10, 2013
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34.78%
"Nope not feeling sorry for you because your numbers are dwindling. Serves you right for being a pack of racist turds."
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176
September 10, 2013
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34.98%
""He raised an eyebrow, which made Clary instantly jealous. She'd always wanted to be able to do that."
Oh but you did do that Clary. Back on page 100. "Clary raised an eyebrow at Jace. "You hate beragmot?""
Consistency. It means shit. If you're going to add a pointless line of eyebrow jealousy then might want to make sure your character hasn't already done what she's jealous of."
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Oh but you did do that Clary. Back on page 100. "Clary raised an eyebrow at Jace. "You hate beragmot?""
Consistency. It means shit. If you're going to add a pointless line of eyebrow jealousy then might want to make sure your character hasn't already done what she's jealous of."
September 10, 2013
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38.54%
"This whole diner scene and take on downworlders how they're good enough but not good enough is really unsettling. It's like worth is determine on how close you are to the shadowhunter caste. Mundanes are slightly above downworlders because mundanes could potentially be turned into shadowhunters. The whole convo is sickening really."
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195
September 10, 2013
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38.74%
""It's not one-way...we may not always like downworlders but they don't always like us, either."
Maybe because you're elitist snotty little racists who are "allowed" to kill them should they step out of line."
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Maybe because you're elitist snotty little racists who are "allowed" to kill them should they step out of line."
September 10, 2013
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39.13%
"How convenient (and lame) that they need to find Mangus Bane and with zero effort they have an invitation to his party. I guess conflict would have gotten in the way of the similes and outfit descriptions."
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198
September 10, 2013
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40.32%
""You could try not being so charming all the time," Clary said. "It might be a relief for everyone."
I don't think that word means what she thinks it means."
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204
I don't think that word means what she thinks it means."
September 10, 2013
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42.09%
""Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks."
He's the sexy one though right?"
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213
He's the sexy one though right?"
September 10, 2013
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42.49%
"I didn't think the Sensor had a screen when it was first introduced in the earlier chapters. Why does it now have a mapping system?
Consistency is for lamers."
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215
Consistency is for lamers."
September 10, 2013
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43.28%
""Even if one of them spills a drink on my new shoes?"
And you wonder why the downwordlers hate you Jace?"
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219
And you wonder why the downwordlers hate you Jace?"
September 10, 2013
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44.47%
"I wish this book would stop referencing other better writers."
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225
September 11, 2013
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44.86%
"Don't see why the Covenant wouldn't be okay with 'mind rape' seeing as they have a whole division of mutilated guys who read minds.
And what the hell is the Covenant? Is it another word for the Accords? or the Clave? What exactly are those two for that matter. I don't think the book cares it just wants to tell us how very hot Jace is."
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And what the hell is the Covenant? Is it another word for the Accords? or the Clave? What exactly are those two for that matter. I don't think the book cares it just wants to tell us how very hot Jace is."
September 11, 2013
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45.65%
"I will admit to liking Mangus's speech about every teenager thinks they're special and different and the reality is all that isn't necessarily a good thing. Props were props are due I guess."
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231
September 11, 2013
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45.65%
"Still though I hate the fact that all conflict around this is instantly killed in the fact that Mangus easily divulges the information about the mind block spell to them and is also like no worries it will go away on it's own."
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231
September 11, 2013
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45.85%
"I'm hoping Alec's crush on Jace is purely physical seeing as each time Jace opens his mouth to speak to him he's an insufferable dick."
page
232
September 11, 2013
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46.05%
"So all it takes to learn runes is to stare at them in a book until you magically know them? Good thing there is no effort involved Clary would never be able to handle it."
page
233
September 11, 2013
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46.44%
"If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do you will never learn from your mistakes.
Can't believe cocky line about being sexy by Jace are frequently highlighted in this book but this one isn't."
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Can't believe cocky line about being sexy by Jace are frequently highlighted in this book but this one isn't."
September 11, 2013
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46.44%
"Alec pouting that without the cup they won't be able to make more shadowhunters.
Again if you weren't such stuck up little bigots you could make more of you the normal way. Hook up with some normal people and make hunter babies. The silent guy did say Clave blood is dominant so you're very likely to get a special sparkle baby out of it."
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235
Again if you weren't such stuck up little bigots you could make more of you the normal way. Hook up with some normal people and make hunter babies. The silent guy did say Clave blood is dominant so you're very likely to get a special sparkle baby out of it."
September 11, 2013
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46.64%
"Should also probably be keeping a tally of how often Clary forgets about Simon. Some friend."
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236
September 11, 2013
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47.04%
"Clary. You're the bitch here. Isabelle didn't do anything wrong. She said she told him not to drink whatever he drank. Not her fault he's a rat. She's clearly upset about it. A few pages ago you realized you forgot him completely."
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238
September 11, 2013
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47.23%
""Clary was struck by how rearely any of them, other than Isabelle, ever said Simon's actual name."
And yet, somehow, she's the one you treat the worst in regards to him."
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239
And yet, somehow, she's the one you treat the worst in regards to him."
September 11, 2013
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47.63%
""Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren't their fault is a mystery to me. You didn't force that cocktail down his idiotic throat."
Uh.....Jace. You were blaming Isabelle for him being a rat just a moment ago. She didn't force is down his throat either yet you blamed her."
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Uh.....Jace. You were blaming Isabelle for him being a rat just a moment ago. She didn't force is down his throat either yet you blamed her."
September 11, 2013
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48.22%
"This whole thing with the vampires and the vandalized motorbikes just serves to annoy me further. It doesn't make Jace look cool. It makes him look like a jerk."
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244
September 11, 2013
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48.81%
""My eyes are usually described as golden," Jace told the intercom. "And luminous."
Ugh. We know. The author likes to remind us at least once a chapter about hold golden you are."
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247
Ugh. We know. The author likes to remind us at least once a chapter about hold golden you are."
September 11, 2013
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50.2%
"Is this an abandoned church? Why would he be stirring up dusts? Most Catholic churches have a daily mass meaning dust wouldn't be gathering much around the altar."
page
254
September 11, 2013
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51.58%
"Speaking a liquid Spanish? Does that mean he spits when he talks?"
page
261
September 11, 2013
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52.17%
"All this random words in Spanish is getting annoying. It all sounds like it's playing to a stereotype. People will usually speak in a language they can be understood in not switch it up for random words. He's Hispanic. We get it. You described that already no need to toss in level one Spanish every time he speaks."
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264
September 11, 2013
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53.75%
"Clary wondered if there were any ugly vampires, or maybe any fat ones. Maybe they didn't make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn't want to live forever.
So. Much. Hate."
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272
So. Much. Hate."
September 11, 2013
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55.73%
"So we've got werewolves we've got vampires but instead of actual action we have clothing descriptions and banter."
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282
September 11, 2013
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57.91%
"If the vampires bike turned into 'a heap of unrecognizable ash as the sun's rays struck it.' Why were the vampires keeping their bikes on the roof the the hotel?"
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293
September 11, 2013
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59.09%
"I guess the Clave is good or bad depending on how convenient it is at the given moment."
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299
September 11, 2013
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59.29%
"I don't understand why Clary is considered such a great and amazing character when she's here getting pleasure from hurting Alec emotionally."
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300
September 11, 2013
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61.07%
"Jace claims he doesn't know about plants because he's not going to be an archivist. Only back at Dorothea's he bragged about not 'being like other guys' because he knew about plants due to required classes at the Institute. Again a little consistency would be nice."
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309
September 11, 2013
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61.07%
""The apple tasted green and cool."
What the hell does green taste like?!"
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309
What the hell does green taste like?!"
September 11, 2013
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63.44%
"The love triangle comes to a head with both boys coming out like jerks."
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321
September 11, 2013
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66.01%
"So Jocelyn, Luke and Valentine had a love triangle as well. Because one insufferable love triangle just wasn't enough it had to run in the family."
page
334
September 11, 2013
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69.17%
"Why is everything in this book have to be responded to with snark and banter?"
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350
September 11, 2013
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69.57%
"So a demon appears and the big bad awesome super bad ass shadowhunters all wet their pants."
page
352
September 11, 2013
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70.36%
""Simon. She had forgotten he was outside, had almost forgotten he existed."
Really? Again. Why are you even friends?"
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356
Really? Again. Why are you even friends?"
September 11, 2013
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71.74%
"There was zero reason for him to have to say that it was his fault in Latin."
page
363
September 11, 2013
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72.33%
"So the guy you've trusted, Hodge, has just taken the cup. The cup you were going to use to save your mother and your first thought is OMG JACE?! I hate you more than I've hated a main character ever before."
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366
September 11, 2013
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72.92%
"Oh. My. God. Does everyone in this book have to banter and talk constantly?"
page
369
September 11, 2013
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76.09%
""..you're just a slimy Downwordler who didn't even care that all those years..."
Getting real tired of the racist bullshit in this book."
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385
Getting real tired of the racist bullshit in this book."
September 11, 2013
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77.08%
"Getting sicker and sicker of this crap about shadowhunters being a dying breed. I don't even care seeing as they're pricks and deserve to die out since they won't breed with regular humans."
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390
September 11, 2013
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78.26%
"I still have no idea what Valentine's plans really are. I don't think the author does either. He wants to make more Shadowhunters, but wait no he wants to rid the world of all things non human, but wait to do that he'll ally with demons....I'm thinking evil for the hell of it."
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396
September 11, 2013
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79.05%
"Nice to know being an ordinary human is just a notch above death all together."
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400
September 11, 2013
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82.02%
"Well any affection I had for Luke is now as dead as the former clan leader he apparently just waltzed in and killed so he could take over the pack."
page
415
September 11, 2013
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82.41%
""But they looked nothing like monsters."
Maybe because they aren't monsters you twit."
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417
Maybe because they aren't monsters you twit."
September 11, 2013
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84.19%
"Luke states that the Clave looks poorly on torturing people and performing black magic but all this time I thought humans don't do magic only demons do magic. Whatever the magic rules are as screwed up as every other world building aspect in this book."
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September 11, 2013
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84.78%
"Guy dies via knife to the throat right in front of Clary and she thinks of a poem from English class."
page
429
September 11, 2013
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85.18%
"Clary shows more emotion and care about rescuing and seeing the 'cute' boy she's know all of, what, three days than she does her own mother."
page
431
September 12, 2013
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86.36%
"Does Clary seriously think that Valentine isn't saying anything about being her father because he saw her and Jace hugging?"
page
437
September 12, 2013
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86.96%
"So the grand climax comes to....the adult villain of the story taunting a girl for being in love with her brother."
page
440
September 12, 2013
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87.55%
"It's always fun to listen to the big bad villain pontificate to two teenagers."
page
443
September 12, 2013
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87.75%
"Of course, as always, Clary continues to focus on what's most important here. The fact that she and her brother may be in love with each other."
page
444
September 12, 2013
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91.11%
"For what reason do they need this cup again? I thought they just wanted to keep it away from him or trade it for Jocelyn. Murder the bastard and end this book now."
page
461
September 12, 2013
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91.9%
"EXACTLY JACE YOU COULD HAVE KILLED HIM. But no you couldn't do it you just stood there and let him pontificate and then just get away probably so we have to suffer through two more books of this crap."
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465
September 12, 2013
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93.28%
""Since I found out what? That he's a killer transvestite who molests cats?"
Nice to know these characters can't get emotional about anything. It's all snark and banter to them."
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Nice to know these characters can't get emotional about anything. It's all snark and banter to them."
September 12, 2013
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94.27%
"Am I the only one who hasn't really seen Isabelle as bitchy so much as Clary?"
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My oh my, I've been there too, do you plan to read the others?
@Andre - Yeah I know, I finished the Codex about a week ago. Since I read this book back in 2013 and planned on reading the last one I figured it was time for a quick re-read and mostly because I wanted to see just how much the codex contradicted the books themselves. The whole stupid mess with the definition of the Clave irritated me to the point of caps lock fixation.I read it originally before the movie came out, I think or right before, so I read the original version.
@J - I have already didn't really get any better. I think majority of it is made up as it goes along.
Amanda wrote: "@Andre - Yeah I know, I finished the Codex about a week ago. Since I read this book back in 2013 and planned on reading the last one I figured it was time for a quick re-read and mostly because I w..."Sorry, I forgot.
Well you know then how much it contradicts the books and itself.
And if you think TBC was messed up regarding hisory, I read a delete scene for Clockwork Angel where Jem tells Tessa about the attack on the Imperial Gardens and boy, if anyone said that in history class you would accuse them of revisionist history.
Speaking of TID I'm still baffled as to why so many people claim to love that series but dislike this one. Not to say this one is great I just seem to find TID more irritating I suppose.
Speaking of TID I'm still baffled as to why so many people claim to love that series but dislike this one. Not to say this one is great I just seem to find TID more irritating I suppose.
Amanda wrote: "Speaking of TID I'm still baffled as to why so many people claim to love that series but dislike this one. Not to say this one is great I just seem to find TID more irritating I suppose."Similar with me. I honestly cannot remember being as annoyed and sometimes infuriated with TMI as I was with TID. Or maybe that is because I read all of TMI except for number 6 before TID and so I simply do not remember anymore.
However TID seemed to be even more plothole ridden and full of even more hollow lip-service than TMI was. Heck Clare even claimed TID is feminist, which is about as much true as After Earth was a well-paced action adventure about father-son bonding.
Not to mention it showed how much Clare messes up history and any culture not her own.
Amanda wrote: "Speaking of TID I'm still baffled as to why so many people claim to love that series but dislike this one. Not to say this one is great I just seem to find TID more irritating I suppose."Similar with me. I honestly cannot remember being as annoyed and sometimes infuriated with TMI as I was with TID. Or maybe that is because I read all of TMI except for number 6 before TID and so I simply do not remember anymore.
However TID seemed to be even more plothole ridden and full of even more hollow lip-service than TMI was. Heck Clare even claimed TID is feminist, which is about as much true as After Earth was a well-paced action adventure about father-son bonding.
Not to mention it showed how much Clare messes up history and any culture not her own.
And Clare will even forget what she wrote in this book for the next. And be lucky you didn't need to read her lip-service regarding feminism, LGBT rights, history and pretty much everything across the board.
Btw. did you read the original or the movie-tie in version?