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	nights_mistress 2008-03-04 06:28 am UTC (link)
	I ... have a shameful admission to make. No, it is not that I tried to download a copy of the first book. It's that I couldn't find it online and considered borrowing it from the library. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	khym_chanur 2008-03-04 06:31 am UTC (link)
	gasp! I... I thought I knew you! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	Confession tehrin 2008-03-04 07:50 am UTC (link)
	I read a good bulk of it (shocking, I know). Because I have a masochistic side and enjoy to torture myself with bad ~~fan~~fiction. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	evilsqueakers 2008-03-04 09:04 am UTC (link)
	Oh, don't feel too bad. I actually read it. The whole thing. God help me. And I read it from the library because I wasn't about to line her pockets. HP meets Buffy. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	blue_penguin 2008-03-04 05:24 pm UTC (link)
	You think that's bad? I did borrow it from the library. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	luthe 2008-03-04 05:50 pm UTC (link)
	It makes me ashamed to even know my local library has a copy of it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	o_o 2008-03-04 09:28 pm UTC (link)
	DON'T DO IT. I have friends who work in the uni library and they check people's borrowing history and then make fun of them. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	sticks 2008-03-05 02:46 am UTC (link)
	I bought it. We can't be friends anymore, can we? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	dante_the_mouse 2008-03-05 04:55 am UTC (link)
	I just checked to see if my local library has City of Bones. They have 3 copies, and City of Ashes already has 11 holds on it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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	ashenmote 2008-03-04 07:10 am UTC (link)
	Gasp (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	yattara 2008-03-04 10:04 am UTC (link)
	Even if I knew absolutely nothing about CC and her copycatting ways, I still would not be thrilled by that book-description. If it has such a need to tell me a book will be breathtaking and gripping, odds are good it's dull as molasses. (Reply to this)

	entrenous88 2008-03-04 12:13 pm UTC (link)
	I totally forgot that the heroine's name is Clary Fray. That's hilarious. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	threegoldfish 2008-03-04 12:16 pm UTC (link)
	The last Publisher's Weekly I got was on upcoming teen titles and this one was pulled out in the "of special note" article. I loled and loled and loled. (Reply to this)

	southerngaelic 2008-03-04 12:17 pm UTC (link)
	The book actually sold well enough to warrant a sequel? O.o (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	shinga 2008-03-04 12:34 pm UTC (link)
	I was in line at the bookstore last month and saw something about it up on the wall behind the desk. I busted out laughing and when my boyfriend asked why, I really had no way to fully explain myself. :\| (Reply to this)

mouseybrown
2008-03-04 12:47 pm UTC (link)

Personally, I like this bit from the Kirkus review of the book:

"The prose is exceedingly purple: Eyes are always paint chips, black pits or jewels in a spider's web; ichor-leaking demons have voices like shattering glass; fairies have hair like autumn leaves or poison green skin."

Purple prose from CassieClare? Tell me it isn't so!

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9781416914297

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limyaael
2008-03-04 02:07 pm UTC (link)

I'm not surprised the first one sold well; apparently urban fantasy with a teenage heroine is the thing right now, and after all, CC has a lot of Internet fans.

I'd be interested to know if someone picking the book up sight-blind to the internet controversy, just because it was an urban fantasy book, would think it was good writing, though. The excerpts I've read just weren't very interesting.

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	theonedespot 2008-03-04 02:56 pm UTC (link)
	I borrowed a friend's free copy of the first book and read it, which didn't take long, and it was derivative and mediocre as I expected. That said, they do have lovely covers. (Reply to this)

	shark 2008-03-04 04:26 pm UTC (link)
	Pretty cover, though. (Reply to this)

	eldritch 2008-03-04 05:36 pm UTC (link)
	I can't decide if things like this should make me feel elated (if this is possible, maybe I actually have a chance of being published!) or depressed (GODDAMMIT CASSIE CLAIRE). (Reply to this)

ahiru
2008-03-04 07:49 pm UTC (link)

I was just at a bookstore yesterday with my sister and she picked up the first book and started looking at it. When I saw what book it was I told her "You don't want it, trust me. It's disguised bad fanfic and she's kind of a plagiarist." And then I told her the whole epic tale of Cassie Claire and laptops and Ipods and damn Harry Potter plagiarists and now I think she thinks I spend too much time on the Internet.

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cinnamonical
2008-03-04 10:44 pm UTC (link)

I felt really conflicted when one of my favorite bloggers on LJ, who is smart and snarky and overall awesometastic, read the first book and totally fell in love with it and said it was amazing.

I read the first chapter off CC's site and was not impressed, but I want to see if I can get through the first book just so I can say that I did. And maybe the second book if I'm feeling masochistic.

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	brennalarose 2008-03-05 12:12 am UTC (link)
	It's like when I first read Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. I knew that, if SHE could get published, I had a chance. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	melisus 2008-03-05 02:00 am UTC (link)
	You know, I was in a book store a few weeks ago and saw CC's first book. It was sharing shelf space with several Anne Rice novels. I laughed so hard. (Reply to this)

	phorcys 2008-03-05 09:14 pm UTC (link)
	The first time I saw a copy of the book in a local book store, it was weird because it was 'the internet' appearing in real life. That being said I have borrowed it from my local library, hell if I can read LKH, Ann Rice, and Mary Janice Davidson. I must be able to read the first book. Mustn't I? (Reply to this)