End: City of Bones

This book was an ok book in my opinion. I'm not crazy over it like some people are but I don't hate it like others. It could've been a little more original and slightly less predictable.That would've made the book more exciting. I honestly prefer books that have one of the good characters or even the protagonist die or something. I feel like that is what makes a book really good. But I can see that since this book is the first of a long series, it would've be a good idea to kill off the heroine at this stage... in fact lets disregard my comment on wishing the heroine would die. I just think the originality of the main character is slightly dull.

Character relations: City of Bones

Being in the middle of the book, I think that Clary has kind of an unoriginal characteristic. She doesn't seem any different to the other characters with genres that are similar to this book. Take this book as an example; The Iron King. I read this book a while ago and the main character, Meghan is very similar to that of Clary. They both started out oblivious to what was actually going on in their environment. They also have this duty they are to fulfill in whatever fantasy world they were "sent" to. The City of Bones is a good book so far. Just slightly unoriginal when it comes to the heroine of the story.
But I do think the way the author portrays the other characters is good. They don't seem like your typical kids around the block. It kinda puts a new perspective on how other kids act, not just what I can see within my real-world life.

About the Author: Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare. The author of The Mortal Instruments series. She was born July 27, 1973 in Teheran, Iran to American parents. Cassandra's real name is Judith Rumelt. Throughout her childhood she traveled around many places including Switzerland, England, and France. Her parents were a business school professor, and author. After college, she lived in Los Angeles and New York where she worked for many magazines and tabloids and then in 2004, began working on The Mortal Instruments series, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan.

Cassandra doesn't enjoy working alone at home because "she always gets distracted by reality TV and the antics of her two cats" so usually she works at restaurants and coffee shops nearby.

The sixth book of The Mortal Instruments is coming out May 27, 2014 called City of Heavenly Fire. Her books have more than 30 million copies in print worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages.

New Book: City of Bones

Yeah, so I decided to not finish the series. I was reading like the first few pages of it and it was literally as boring as the rhetoric video that our English class had to watch. So after a few minutes, hours, DAYS, I stumbled upon a popular series called the City of Bones. I had heard of it before but never got into actually reading it. I am a pretty big fan of fantasy fiction so I decided to give this book a shot.

My iPod doesn't give me page numbers but after reading the first few pages (maybe?), this book sounded very interesting and exciting. There were many deep descriptions at the beginning , which made the setting very easily imaginable. It takes place at a high school bar like place with very... strangely dressed people. The place is called Pandemonium. Clary, a fifteen year old girl is with her best friend Simon. not much has happened yet besides the fact that she sees a super hot dude. I think that the author, Cassandra Clare, is writing about two events happening simultaneously. One is just about Clary and her views on Pandemonium, and one about a boy "feeding" on people there. It's a little confusing so far, but it sounds really interesting.

One of the line says, "She was beautiful, for a human-long hair nearly the precise color of black ink, char-coaled eyes. Floor-length white gown, the kind women used to wear when this world was was younger."  I have to admit, that was a really detailed line for just one girl. When I read this, I felt this sort of hatred towards her. Don't ask me why. Maybe it's just cause it's impossible for someone to be so beautiful and perfect in this world. Well. This IS a book. So I guess it's okay. But still, I didn't feel a good aura. It then goes on and on for like 2 paragraphs just describing her.

This book also uses some high elevated diction. Words like "insouciant" and "sauntered." Now I knew what the word "sauntered" meant (thank you Mrs. Bross) but I didn't know "insouciant" which means showing a casual lack of concern or indifferent. So this was also a boost in encouraging me to read on and even the book that follow that. So, so far, it sounds great. Thanks to whoever first introduced me to the book and look forward to the next post!

End of The Chronicles of Vladimer Todd

This book.. man... I don't even know... Well it's a simple book. There aren't any hard words in there.

Look forward to my next post!

Just kidding.
It was defiantly a predictable ending. I could almost guess every single one of those events. Vampires fight each other. Vampires find something creepy. Vampires fall in love. Vampires discover something "unforeseen." I'm not going to spoil anything in case any of you plan on ignoring everything I have said and read it anyway, but it was just too predictable. It's probably hard to create a unique vampire book while still making it a good read, but that's why you don't see many new vampire book anymore... or maybe not. Maybe I'm totally wrong in thinking this. But there are I think 4 books following this. I'll probably read the rest just because they're easy and I just want to know if my prediction at the very end is actually right (since so far, I am ;)). I don't expect them to be any better considering how the first book turned out. Usually the first book is always the best, or at least that's what I have experienced.This line is kind of a spoiler but I just have to put it out there, "Valdimir, I''m Tomas's half brother. Your uncle." (Brewer, 140) Luke, I am your father. Woopie! Some weird person is actually related to you! I have never seen this before in my whole life in reading books and watching movies.
So I don't know if I'm going to post stuff about the second book, but if or when I do, it's not going to be pretty.

Character Prompt: Chronicles of Vladimer Todd

So while I was reading this... amazing book about vampires and vampire hunters and all that, I was thinking about how the story was like a less dramatic version of Twilight. Now I know that I was some-what criticizing the plot of this book, but I really don't have anything against the Twilight series unlike most people. But instead of comparing the main character, Vladimer to a character from Twilight, Vladimer reminded me a little of Greg from Diary of a Wimpy Kid. To be completely honest, Vladimer sounds a lot like a very boring and depressing kid will little to no life. He doesn't ahve very good luck with girls, nor does he have the luck of avoiding... persay... things that would like to be avoided. Greg has one of the most depressing lives I have seen (not including those book or movies which talk about homelessnes or other stuff) for someone of his standing. I could say the same things for Vladimer. His parents died, his best friend is super popular and always gets the girls, he can't seem to get a girlfriend, he gets bullied around, and he's kind of an introverted person. I can relate this introvered Vladimer to one of my best friends, whom I will keep her name hidden. No, she does not get bullied at school (or I at least hope not) and no she is not having trouble finding a significant other (not that she is trying). She's just the quiet type in a room full of strangers or with people she's not that close with. She also doens't hate being alone, unlike me and a lot of my other friends who seem to have a fear of being alone while going to the bathroom or getting food in the lunch line. Vladimer walks outside when it's dark a lot and actualyl prefers being alone with his thoughts rather than in a large group (just saying my friend does not walk outside alone in the dark street like a creeper. But other than that, so far, Vladimer is the only character with any sort of personality so far...

New Book: The Chornicles of Vladimer Todd

So I started reading this book mentioned in my title which I'm too lazy to type out and it looks like it's going to be another one of those vampire love stories with so much drama and "unforeseen" predicaments. Let me clear things up. I'm not the type of person to read vampire books. Nor am I the type to read typical love, drama, boyfriend girlfriend books. The only reason I started reading this book was because my vampire-obsessed friend kept nagging me to read it. If she read one of my favorite books I would have to read one of hers yadyadayada. So to keep this promise, I started reading this book. Don't get me wrong, easy books are well... easy to read and all, but this story has no depth or deeper meaning to it whatsoever. I mean the font is huge for my standards and I haven't come across a difficult word yet (me being the kind that needs to find new words every now and then). So this book could be a "I'll read it in 2 days" kind of book.

It's basically about this boy named Vladimer Todd (duh it's in the title) and he's part human, part vampire. So far, the book describes his life as... oh what's the word... sucky. He gets bullied at school, his teachers and principals suck, and all the girls prefer his friend over him. To top that off, his parents died in a house fire, so you can just tell that this book is going to be bright and happy, just like vampires typically are. Oh and did I forget to mention that there are vampire hunters trying to kill him? Dang, what a turn of events. (I hope you guys have caught on to my many verbal ironic references back there).

Now the author of this series is Heather Brewer. There wasn't much I could really research on her. All I found out was that her birthday was September 21, 1973 and that she was a pretty dark person her whole life. She wears mostly black, like to wander cemeteries, and "devours" books. She has written two other series called The Slayer Chronicles, and The Legacy of Tril.