This is a re-read for me because book 6, City of Heavenly Fire just came out last month and I had to catch up. It's been a while since I read this book and I barely remember the characters and the story. I was able to read until book 3. I do remember enjoying this series because I bought a physical book instead of an eBook, I usually read in my eReader. When book 6 came out, I decided to buy hardback copies of book 1 to 6. Now I’m doing a reading marathon for this series. In between reading book 2 and 3, I remembered the movie adaptation and came up with this post.
Book VS. Movie:
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!
Blurb:
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?
This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know...
Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare's ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end.
Thoughts:
I really enjoyed this
book, it’s fast paced, with witty retorts from the characters mostly
from Jace like:
“Don't touch any of my weapons
without my permission."
"Well, there goes my plan for
selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered.
"Selling them
on what?"Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place
of great magical power.”
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“Investigation?" Isabelle
laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code
names."
"Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be
Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.”
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“Declarations
of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”
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"Yeah, well,
you clearly also couldn't be bothered to call me and tell me you were
shacking up with some dyed-blond wanna-be goth you probably met at
Pandemonium. After I spent the past three days wondering if you were
dead."
"I was not shacking up," Clary said, glad of the darkness as the blood rushed to her face.
"And my hair is naturally blond," said Jace. "Just for the record."
"I was not shacking up," Clary said, glad of the darkness as the blood rushed to her face.
"And my hair is naturally blond," said Jace. "Just for the record."
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... and
so much more that it kept me entertained for the rest of the book.
Not just because Jace have some cool lines but let’s keep it real, it’s
hot coming from Jace.
The love triangle! It’s a basic now from YA to have these
cheesy-gooey –vomit inducing love triangle. Admit it, were kinda sick
of that, but this love triangle is somewhat different. A girl who can’t choose between 2 hot guys (and sometimes she wants
both)--- her best friend Simon, and Jace, the dyed-blond wanna-be goth (according to Simon) who happens to be Clary’s long lost brother. Yes kinda gross after they kissed twice in this book, not just smack but a kiss with tongues, ewww! Enough of the details. But they didn’t know that they were siblings until end of the book. Still ewww! ( I still picture Cersei
and Jamie from the Game of Thrones)
Details. World
building is great. It’s like I’m living it and part of the shadow
hunter world. I never read a book as good as this since Harry Potter,
world building wise. From the runes, stele they used and their swords
with weird angel names to disgusting monsters.
Twists. I expected Luke
to be a shadowhunter because of Jocelyn’s friendship with him but
not a werewolf. The long lost
brother part is somewhat disgusting.
Action. It keeps me
on the edge of my seat. I like how bad-ass they were and trained to be
warriors, it gives Jace plus point in the hotness meter. Lets give Simon
some slack he also participated and even save their asses.
Movie Thoughts: IT’S THE MOST HORRENDOUS MOVIE ADAPTATION I EVER WATCHED. And yes! Caps lock!
Let’s just be
real, I won’t expect movie adaptations to be f*cking perfect
because how can you fit a beautifully written and mind blowing book to
a 90- 120 mins of pure awesome? Well this doesn't even comes close to
10mins awesomeness.
The delivery of lines... it’s like they were reading straight out of the book with a dash of feelings.Casting SUCKS! Bigtime. You can do better than Valentine, he’s the one who lookes emo-goth wannabe. Seriously! Who picked him? He's like older brother of Clary or younger brother of Jocelyn.
Get your major facts straight – mostly movie adaptation isn’t similar to the book like The Lightning Thief but it turneayd out ok. But this movie just sucked big time.
Rating:
BOOK: 4.5 Fairy Wings
MOVIE: 1 Fairy Wing for Lily
Collins and Cersei oh, I mean Lena Heady. And okay, 1.5 Fairy Wings because Magnus Bane is hot.
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