Hello blog! So, as you will know if you have ever talked to me, I am an obsessive, intrinsic reader. Books are my adoration. They are half the reason to be alive. Okay, maybe that's a little over dramatic. But nearly true :-)
A few years back, on the Facebook app Visual Bookshelf they were advertising this book that you could read online, City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare. I looked at it a bunch of times, but it didn't really look that interesting. One day, however, I, being very bored, was browsing Visual Bookshelf once again, when the ad came up. I thought, "what the heck, I'm super bored and I can always stop reading if it's lame." BUT, to my great surprise, it turned out to be one of the most fantastic books I had read in a very long time. After City of Bones are City of Ashes and City of Glass, but unfortunately those were not online. I slowly forgot about them (since I had no money to buy them, and our libraries here are fairly intolerable), until this summer. When I was home I found them at my home library, and was overjoyed! Unfortunate
ly I only made it halfway through the second book by the time I had to come back here, and so returned them
to their rightful owner. But, this time I got back, and DID have a bit of money. So I finally bought them! I am so very excited. I finished up the second book very fast, and am now about halfway through the third. I could have finished it long since, but I'm trying to drag it out as long as I possibly can, since the next book in the series doesn't come out until April.
Anyhow, all those details were probably fairly unneeded! All you really needed to know is, hey! I found a great book series! Onto the books themselves.
16 year old Clary Fray of New York finds out that she is by birth the daughter of the most fiendish and powerful villain of the unseen world of the Nephilim. She is thrown into the deep end of a world she never knew existed right in her own city, when her mother is suddenly abducted by her malicious father, Valentine. Clary is stunned and disoriented as she's thrust into the world that should have been her home.
Since, of course, there is always some mysterious and gorgeous boy involved, Jace Wayland is a (deservedly) overconfident, multi-talented and yes, breathtaking 17 year old Shadowhunter (the more common word for Nephilim. They are demon hunters by trade). With crazy surprises, mad twists and amazingly 3D characters, I find this series very hard to put down. I would highly recommend the Mortal Instruments series. It is definitely written for young adults, but I think that some older crowds would enjoy them as well.
(*By the way, these books are not at all biblically accurate in the way of the Nephilim and Angels, etc, so in order to read them you have to make sure to step back and look at it as strictly fiction, not any kind of commentary on Angels or whatever. It is pedantically entertainment)
SO yes! Sorry if this was a boring blog post, I, at least, had fun writing it :-) Hope you are having an amazing New Year!! Adieu, adieu adieu.
My friend Nathan found THE MOST amazing gummy candy ON The planet. They are shaped like mushrooms! You can imagine my feverish excitement when he handed them over, and I realised what they were. I freaked out. And I haven't really stopped. Seriously??? Mushroom shaped sweets??? Who thought of this?! I love them. Whoever they are. I am seriously overjoyed that ASDA makes them. These are some pictures of my rapturous joy. 
