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Finished City of Bones by Cassandra Clare for the New Author Challenge.
This is another my my newly beloved "YA Supernatural Novels" genre.
There was a lot of exposition in this novel (which isn't a bad thing, as far as I'm concerned) but there was plenty of action, too.
General gist: humans (or "mundanes," as we are so charmingly called) don't see Downworlders (vampires, werewolves, faeries), demons (self-explanatory) or Shadowhunters (the people who fight demons and rogue downworlders--the rogues kill humans). Except now Clary can and the day after she discovers that she can, her mom disappears. So she and a few Shadowhunters are trying to figure out why.
If you read a lot of these types of books, you're probably not going to be shocked by what happens in this one. There are twists and turns, yes, but you'll probably see almost all of them coming a mile away (I will admit that one of them actually was a shock, but most of them weren't).
This isn't to say, though, that the book wasn't fun--it was extremely entertaining. I'm going to read the second now, and I'm psyched to get the third one in a couple weeks.
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You'll be happy to know that book two is already available and that the third (and apparently final) book comes out on March 24.
I'm psyched you'll be reading this because I think it'll be really fun to do our spoiler-free discussion about the twists and turns and which you saw coming and which you didn't.
Also, yay for no interminably long wait between sequels.
Well, there's stuff I don't get because it's hidden well and there's stuff I don't get because I'm not wearing my thinking cap. But seriously (with the exception of one, maybe), you'll probably get these twists and turns, because it's nothing you haven't read before.
But it's still so fun. :)