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#1 Sep 21 2014 at 2:11 PM Rating: Decent
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My wife was reading these books.....so I ignored them as she is more of the "50 shades" and that kind of **** fan.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/44457-the-mortal-instruments


But we watched the movie of the first book this afternoon, and it's my kind of thing...demons, swords, fantasy, all that good stuff. Very "Diabo"esq. The movie was alright, stars Lena Heady of GoT fame, John Rhys Myers and others.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1538403/


So since she has the series, I guess I have some reading to do now.

Edited, Sep 21st 2014 1:12pm by Xizervexius

edit: Apparently the target audience for this is "early adult"...oi vay. Ahh well, it has swords and demons.

Edited, Sep 21st 2014 9:57pm by Xizervexius
#2 Sep 23 2014 at 4:37 PM Rating: Good
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Movie is decent on its own, but it's borderline terrible when compared to the books.

And yes, it's a young adult story, so it's all built up around a teenage love triangle (actually more like a love pentangle), but unlike a certain other female author of young adult fantasy, Cassandra Clare knows what's up. For instance, in her books, vampires don't ******* sparkle when exposed to the sun - they burn in righteous flames. Also, the story features an angel burning a hole through a man's chest at one point. Oh, and a gay warlock with cat eyes, because why the **** not.

I recommend the books, but the movie is meh.
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#3 Sep 24 2014 at 12:21 PM Rating: Good
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The quality of YA fiction has actually gone up a lot in the past decade or so. The success of HP, followed by the success of Twilight, helped create a market that's actually really prolific. And competition helps actually produce some quality stuff.

I find a lot of them explore high level concepts quite well, and they can do it with less of the pomp and circumstance a lot of adult novels use. Darkness/vocab for the sake of darkness/vocab get old. I'm impressed by writers who understand that these are tools to be used, not the end.

I definitely find myself rolling my eyes more frequently at adult fiction than YA fiction. Though, to be completely fair, just because of the way I'm likely to become aware of the books, I only read the better YA stuff.
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#4 Oct 27 2014 at 1:51 PM Rating: Decent
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Finished 4 of the books so far. Story is alright, and it's a quick read so far as you can pretty much skip half of each book with all the teenage angst/love/relationship crap.

And they really took liberties with the book vs. the movie. And not in a good way.
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#5 Oct 27 2014 at 4:24 PM Rating: Good
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I watched the movie based off of this thread. You guys owe two hours of my life back.
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