Review: City of Bones

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Enlist all the cliches from any lousy YA novel and create the characters. Crossover with characteristics directly copied from Harry Potter series. This book is a rambling of uncreative incidents. I went along, nonetheless, hoping to at least derive some guilty pleasure from the budding romance.

But guess what? The novel employs the most tedious and sleazy twist to make the book interesting, INCEST. Talk about the dumps of creativity. Just to set apart the novel from all others of its genre, the author has employed a pitiful issue to keep things fresh. Although unexpected, the twist just makes you gross out and despise the author for her insensitivity while dealing with such a deep and controversial issue.
Highly disappointing, I've read anime crossover fanfictions that are better written and have more creativity.

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