The Book Club: The Mortal Instruments - City Of Bones.

Here I am again with yet another read book: this book is written by the famous Cassandra Clare and is the first in the series 'The Mortal Instruments.
I can say with great certainty that this series (and author)are fairly well known in the world of literature. 
You guys have probably figured out that I join the bandwagon a good 2 years later then every one else and when it came to questioning my other reader friends, they almost seemed to forget what occurred in the book because they had read it so long ago. (Yes that's how late I am to the scene.)

I'm sure by now some people are familiar with the motion picture as this book was turned into a book a good year ago and the downside to this is that, I saw the movie before I had read the book. (The same thing happened when wanting to read the Percy Jackson series.)

As like anything else, I went into the book knowing a fair amount and the first thought that occurred to me (when completing the book) was that the film didn't do a shabby job of holding the plot in firm contact when producing the film. 

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If you're the odd one or two beings that haven't heard or seen the film, I'll type out a basic synopsis for you

"When 15 year old Clary Fray is informed of her mother's disappearance,  she shockingly learns information that she has descended from a line of warriors who protect our world from demons. She is accompanied by people of her own kind and with them, she begins on her way to seek out her abducted mother."

Being honest, with knowing how the plot may lay out, I didn't find the book as enjoyable, however I would have, if I went into the book blind.

With reading my fair share of novels which are based on said topic's : Demons, Vampires, Warlocks, I found I had a quite a significant amount of knowledge which in theory, didn't quite make this new world seem so liberating. 

Nevertheless what is something which I did enjoy was the clash of personalities and characters within the story. Each character had very prominent and unique personalities, some even were on the opposite ends of the spectrum to each other.

One of my favourite characters was Simon (Clary's best friend), whom is a very laid back, sarcastic and humorous being, who doesn't seem to have a serious bone in his body. He is the type of person who would approach a bad situation (possibly somebodies death) and apply irony.

When comparing the film to the book, the only dramatic change was seemingly the end - the end in the book states when Clary arrives at the Institute, she informs Hodge that she has the cup, how ever when giving it to Hodge he summons Valentine and he takes it with an unconscious Jace in his arms.

Clary then finds Luke and locates the lair of which Valentine is holding Jace and her mother. There Jace finds out that he is Clary's  sister and that Jocelyn is his mother.

A fight breaks  out and soon, Valentine is threatened and they learn Valentine has hidden the cup in Idris. Luke advises them to look for the cup but when transferring through the portal, Valentine smashes it and leaves Clary, Luke and Jace on the other side.

However in the film, they never leave the Institute at all and Jace  & Clary are both informed of their relation after Valentine is summoned. Jace is then threatened by Valentine as he aimed to hold of the beacon, but Clary saves Jace when she threatens to throw the cup into the portal. She then hands over the cup to Valentine and kicks him into the portal - then shockingly Valentine reaches out to grab Clary but Jace saves her by freezing the portal and obliterating it.

I know there are more differences, how ever I don't aim to note every single one, nevertheless I might speak about them in a book review on my channel.

For me, I saw the City Of Bones as a very basic introduction to the world Clary has been restricted from for so long. At first after completing this book, I was almost certain that I wouldn't continue to the second, how ever with time and noting down certain things, I think it would only seem polite to consider the second. However I'm anticipating things to heighten greatly and hope more adventure and information is included with in the book, as well as character development.

Fingers crossed that such a widely discussed book series doesn't dampen my expectations.


R.