City of Bones: An Adrenaline-pumping Page Turner

I had never even heard of Cassandra Clare until I stumbled across her book, City of Bones, in Books-A-Million yesterday. When I read the back cover and discovered the book is about demons and all other sorts of fantastical creatures, I knew I had to read City of Bones. Happily, I wasn’t disappointed. As most people know, I am fascinated (almost as much as I am terrified) of demons and the real possibility of their existence, thus the reason I write about them. However, it is rare, I have found, to find many novels that deal with them. City of Bones is an edge-of-your-seat page turner about a girl named Clary Fray, who discovers that she can see demons–and the Shadowhunters commissioned to kill them. However, when her mother goes missing and when Clary, herself, is attacked by a demon, she is taken in by the Shadowhunters, who help her discover who she is and why she can see what others cannot. Several months have passed since I have read a book that I couldn’t put down, until yesterday, that is. I found myself wide awake late last night, my heart pounding, as I tore voraciously through this book, dying to know what would happen next. Eventually, I had to force myself to put it down so that I could go to sleep. I woke up at seven this morning and stayed awake (despite my snow day) so that I could finish it. Now, I am itching to read City of Ashes, the second installment in Clare’s The Mortal Instruments series. But alas, I am snowed in. Perhaps I will have to order it from Books-A-Million today with my trusty discount card.