Textual Reading "Mortal Instruments"

            Recently I had picked up the first book of the Mortal Instruments series. The first book was called City of Bones. I was mainly attracted to it because Stephanie Meyer, the author of Twilight, had reviewed it. Her review was plastered all over the cover so I had decided why not and bought it. I am SO glad I did. Right after reading City of Bones, I read City of Ashes and City of Glass.

This series is teen fantasy and is written by a woman named Cassandra Clare. It is based around a race called the “Shadow Hunters” whom are a race of human and angel hybrids. They are the protectors and they hunt the “Downworlders”. The “Downworlders” are basically the Vampires, Faeries, Warlocks, and Demons of the story. But not all the “Downworlders” are bad. Throughout the story you follow the main character Clary, who gets suddenly sucked into the world of the “Shadowhunters” to save her mother. She finds out that she is more than just any normal “mundane”, or human, that she was raised to be, and that her father is the most evil of all.

The thing that I absolutely LOVE about this series is, it keeps you guessing and surprises you around ever corner. Really random things happen out of nowhere, and you never expected it to happen. Its one series that I have ever stopped reading and could almost not go on because it had just suddenly dropped a bomb on me! Since the series is so intense, and keeps you interested I had to keep reading to know what happens! Another thing I loved about this series, is even though I was really into it, I could set it down and not read it for a while without needing to pick it up again as soon as possible. I read it with ease and no rush.

Even if you are not into all the weird fantasy stuff, I still really recommend this series to anyone.