City of Bones

#1 City of Bones ★★★★☆
#2 City of Ashes ★★★☆☆
#3 City of Glass ★★★★☆
#4 City of Fallen Angels ★★★★★
#5 City of Lost Souls ★★★★★
#6 City of Heavenly Fire

I know I'm slow to pick up this series, but I honestly spent several years of my life thinking that Cassandra Clare's books didn't hold anything special in store for me. They just didn't strike me as books that I would like very much, but when my friend Julie started binge reading them last fall, I decided to finally give them a chance, and I am so happy that I did!

“It means ‘Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.”

→ Clarissa Fray ←

“Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignment with the forces of darkness by my mom?”

→ Simon Lewis ←

“The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.”

→ Jace Wayland ←

“Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”

→ Isabelle & Alec Lightwood ←

coughJulie!cough

Beautiful. He'd called her beautiful. Nobody had ever called her that before, except her mother, which didn't count. Mothers were required to think you were beautiful.

→ hunting, fighting, twists, and turns ←

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

→ final thoughts ←

City of Bones