Review: Fairly creative, and quite predictable. All three books are quick, captivating reads. Once again I find myself reading a story with a heroine who is an uncoordinated idiot. And once again she has two guys that are in love with her. It was discouraging for me when I first started reading it, but I got over it. The character development is limited but enough that the heroine is not nearly so pathetic come the end of the series.
Clare does create an interesting world involving warlocks, vampires, shadowhunters, and many others. However, her story line is quite predictable. At the end of the first book a "twist" is revealed, however it is made quite clear what the real story is. The main characters are just to blind to see the truth until the end of the third book. This is also frustrating, because the truth is painfully obvious.
Synopsis: Clary Fray is at a dance club in Manhattan when she witnesses a strange murder. She suddenly becomes sucked into a world that exists within our own, hidden by 'glamour.' Her mother has been kidnapped and Clary and her new shadowhunter friends are out to get her back. Her best friend Simon, who is a mundane, comes along for the ride and in the middle gets turned into a vampire. Clary finds herself attracted to the shadowhunter Jace and the feelings are mutual. She also discovers her uncle is a werewolf.
The most shocking discovery for Clary was that her mother was a shadowhunter who was married to Valentine, a shadowhunter bent on destroying all the downworlders, and those who sided with them. Valentine died in an uprising, or did he? The mortal instruments are being stolen and each holds dangerous powers that can be manipulated by the beholder.
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