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Post by shred on Aug 29, 2011 18:07:40 GMT 10
The series by Cassandra Clare includes: City of Bones City of Ashes City of Glass City of Fallen Angels With two more books to be released over the next 2 years. 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. Clary knows she should call the police, but it's hard to explain a murder when the body disappears into thin air and the murderers are invisible to everyone but Clary.
Equally startled by her ability to see them, the murderers explain themselves as Shadowhunters: a secret tribe of warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. Within twenty-four hours, Clary's mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a grotesque 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....I'm almost done with the second book and I really enjoy it. There are some things that happen in the book that I hate the writer for but it makes the story quite interesting. I'm enjoying the second book a lot more than the first. But I'm hating Jace (one of the lead) a lot more in the second than in the first.  I know Nico has started reading them. Has anyone else? |
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Post by Lizzie on Aug 30, 2011 1:54:48 GMT 10
I remember Cassie Claire from HP fandom days, and the whole plagiarism thing. So I guess I can't read the books objectively. Plus the fact that "Mortal Instruments" was originally the name of her Ron/Ginny incest fanfiction. Squick. |
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Post by Shaun on Aug 30, 2011 8:53:11 GMT 10
Is this fanfiction or a book series? If it is the latter it is in the wrong section.
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Post by Nico on Aug 30, 2011 11:28:32 GMT 10
It is a book series Shaun. The first book gave me the creeps, the direction she took with the main characters just wasn't what I chose to read the book for. I didn't know about the plagiarism thing either, very interesting I thought the book reminded me of alot of stuff from my favourite shows and the way characters spoke. Liz it was really the name for her incest fanfic? that is funny because The two main characters who are flirting, kissing and clearly showing sexual tension are written as brother and sister. I don't know if that changes but maybe she has some issues with that topic!. |
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Post by Beck on Aug 30, 2011 13:49:28 GMT 10
Moving this to the books section.
I have refused to read these because of the plagiarism. I read that HP series she wrote and recognised a lot of it from other places but never got the full extent of it until it was massively exposed. I can't bring myself to read another series done by an author that blatantly plagiarised so much for a fan fiction series she could have EASILY given credit for and no big.
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Post by shred on Aug 30, 2011 15:03:38 GMT 10
Huh. I didn't know about this. Interesting.  Will now be reading the books in a different light. Now I know why the Jace/Clary thing happened. In other books similar to this, it will NEVER happen that way so I was very surprise that she wrote it that way. Now it all makes sense now! |
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Post by Lizzie on Aug 30, 2011 15:54:15 GMT 10
Liz it was really the name for her incest fanfic? that is funny because The two main characters who are flirting, kissing and clearly showing sexual tension are written as brother and sister. I don't know if that changes but maybe she has some issues with that topic!. Yeah, it is. So gross. And wtf, she must have some kink or something! I'm sure the MI haven't got any unattributed quotes with them, surely editors would have picked that up...but the whole HP FF thing really left a bad taste in my mouth. Especially since she stole from Buffy! I've also seen videos of her and she looks really rude and ungrateful (talking and eating while she was being introduced at a reading, for example). |
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Post by shred on Aug 30, 2011 20:12:20 GMT 10
I still enjoy the books though.  |
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Post by Lizzie on Aug 31, 2011 4:45:00 GMT 10
And that's cool! For me, I couldn't (and therefore haven't) read the books without thinking about the author. Which is a bit sad, really!
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Post by shred on Sept 17, 2011 10:39:36 GMT 10
Even though I enjoy the story, I cannot stand the two leads! I'm almost done with the third book and Clary and Jace are bugging the hell out of me. Always hated Jace since the second book but now it's Clary. I've read the synopsis of the 4th book: And Clary and Jace are together. Don't know how that happened as last time I checked, they are still siblings. Nothing in the third book yet to change this so I don't know what to make of it.
Don't know whether I want to read the 4th book now. :-\ |
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Post by Lizzie on Sept 17, 2011 20:09:05 GMT 10
Oh yuck.
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Post by shred on Sept 17, 2011 20:22:17 GMT 10
Scratch that, it got solved. Just a case of mistaken identity it seems. |
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Post by shred on Oct 20, 2011 9:32:08 GMT 10
Nico! You might want to get back into reading this series. It actually gets quite good. My fav is the third book and I think it's because The whole incest thing gets solved. Read the fourth one a few weeks ago and I enjoyed it too. The ending was annoying because it was a cliffhanger and the next book doesn't come out til next year. Oh and of course there's going to be a movie on it.  Though I personally think it would work better as a TV series. |
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Post by Nico on Oct 20, 2011 9:42:45 GMT 10
I might try I don't have anything to read now  I am getting desperate lol. |
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Post by shred on Oct 20, 2011 9:44:09 GMT 10
Yes do! I think once you've gotten pass the whole incest thing in the first 2 and a half books, the story isn't all that bad. I think you might enjoy it.  |
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Post by Beck on Aug 29, 2013 8:04:45 GMT 10
I've now read the first two books. The incest thing hasn't bothered me because it is obvious they aren't actually related |
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Post by shred on Aug 29, 2013 11:52:46 GMT 10
Oh it's obvious to the reader but not to the characters! I've stopped reading it. Reading back my comments, I'm wondering why I enjoyed the books in the first place. Are you going to watch the movie? |
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Post by Beck on Aug 29, 2013 15:31:48 GMT 10
I'll wait for the DVD
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Post by Nico on Sept 7, 2013 12:48:47 GMT 10
Ahem, not obvious to everybody ;)I finished the series a while ago haha I have heard the movie was bad and Cassandra Clare (with all her morals) was already complaining that they wouldn't let her have much input |
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Post by shred on Sept 7, 2013 13:31:55 GMT 10
Yeah, I heard the movie was bad - as bad as Twilight - so have no interest in it. Btw, was Jace English in the books? He is in the movie and I don't remember him being English! |
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I am getting desperate lol.