A universe without internal logic

After watching film adaptation of the first volume of The Mortal Instruments Series (City of Bones), I was so curious about the second volume, City of Ashes, that I no longer wanted to wait and ordered it directly from Amazon. City of Bones got a 3 star rating from me; I was unhappy with the construction of the characters, because they have in my opinion not enough depth, although I liked the action-packed story.

In City of Ashes feel the same excitement continues: after Valentine was the Mortal Cup steal, his interest now is also directed to the second aspect of the Mortal Instruments, the Soul Sword (Soul-Sword). For this he is ready to go through a lot of corpses. Again, it is in Jace and Clary's hands to stop her father, since the Council of Shadowhunters (The Clave) is not willing to energetically intervene and instead throwing obstacles in their way. Together with your friends you have to fight against both Valentine and against the rigid structures of the world of Shadowhunters. It is revealed that there is much more in Clary and Jace, as it appears at first glance.

The The Mortal Instruments series is one of the most remarkable series that are I've ever seen. Cassandra Clare's ideas are innovative and fresh, but the implementation really leaves something to be desired. Therefore, it is quite difficult to make a balanced and adequate assessment that includes both aspects. I opted for 2 stars, because I find it exciting action on the one hand, on the other hand my hopes concerning the improvement of the figures were disappointed. It's a real shame that Clare is apparently not in a position to weave the story in a logical and comprehensible universe with independent, strong characters.
In the City of Ashes Readers recurs many so-called Downworldern (fairies, werewolves, vampires, warlocks), which are considered by the shadow hunters as inferior; I opens up but still does not know why. In my view, after Down Worlder clearly have the better skills. The Shadowhunters have basically nothing you feeling of superiority justifies, they usually have no appreciable talents. I fail to see what makes them so special and I do not understand why Clare has not better equipped, finally, the Shadowhunters are the ones who are supposed to protect our world from demons. This brings me directly to the next point: why is only Shadowhunter who fight demons? Given the fact that all Down Worlder are part of our world, it is simply not logical that they apparently scissors iota about whether demons infiltrate our dimension. You would just as among the consequences suffer as people; came as no Supernatural up with the idea to join the fight? The Down Worlder among themselves also maintain apparently an indifferent co-existence, apart from the more than clichéd rivalry between werewolves and vampires once.
Thus, it becomes clear what is lacking in The Mortal Instruments series: logic. Cassandra Clare is the reader too often a fait accompli, it explains little and brings the various aspects of their universe rarely in a comprehensible context. To me it seemed as if the author is not bothered, before constructing writing their world; rather, it is as if she attempts to while writing all their ideas come hell under one roof without ever ask yourself the most important question: why. Unfortunately, this lack of logic is expanding on the characters; their actions and reactions are not always natural for me, although Clare has given far more effort here to ensure consistency. Amazingly, they blocked themselves, by presenting their figures as absolute stereotypes; What form does their behavior and see if it fits the action, however, is not a concern.
But what really shocked me was the fact that City of Ashes actually still focuses on the love relationship between Clary and Jace. I could not believe that these incestuous connection continues to be treated; since we are talking about a book for young readers, I am absolutely convinced that such a taboo in this way here from very obvious reasons should not be addressed. It is not the task of the author of urban fantasy novels to teach their young readers that an amorous relationship between brother and sister would be acceptable. It is completely untenable whether should rausstellen in the other volumes that the two are not related, as I suspect it. It's purely a matter of the attitude on this issue, she has published with City of Ashes, is not in order and give a misalignment of their moral compass.

In summary, City of Ashes saves only by the truly captivating plot, all other points have serious flaws. I confess I am surprised myself that I am ever ready to see the continuation volumes. Maybe I'm still hoping for an improvement of Cassandra Clare's skills as a writer. I would recommend the second volume of The Mortal Instruments series only to readers further, who are willing to forgo in favor of a good action on round characters and a logical universe. This decision must each take for themselves; the hype that is around these books, however, is completely incomprehensible to me for two volumes.