YA book to movie adaptations are a dime a dozen now thanks to the enormous success of titles such as Harry Potter, Twilight, and most recently The Hunger Games. But every genre has its run and since the recent adaptations of Beautiful Creatures, The Host, and Percy Jackson floundered to flopped, it feels like this type of movie has seen the last gasps. Maybe The Mortal Instruments and the yet to be released Divergent series will turn that around....but maybe not.
Clary Fray is an ordinary teen living with her mom in New York...sure she draws weird symbols in her sleep and apparently has only one friend in Simon Lewis but her life is fine. Until she goes to a night club and sees a band of mysterious teens apparently stab a young man to death in the middle of the night club....and then realize she's the only one who can see it. Turns out when her mom disappears and she finally hooks up with this group, who really aren't the bad guys, that she is part Shadowhunter. An ancient order of beings descended from the Nephilim (half angel, half human warriors) who's job is to hunt out demons among the mundanes (humans) and apparently keep downworlders (vampires, werewolves, warlocks, witches, and fairies) in order. Complicated plot to say the least...and that is just the beginning....City of Bones will be compared to every teen flick before it, and mostimes justly. It could probably be called 'The Host of Twilights Games between Beautiful Creatures at Hogwarts' honestly. But just because it came after all of those doesn't mean its not better than most. I can say I only enjoyed two of those referenced more than I enjoyed City of Bones, mainly because this story has teeth. Obviously like most things, the book is better than the movie, but if you like your teen angst movies with a little more blood, a little more darkness, and a little more twistedness (in the story and the relationships) than you will love The City of Bones.
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