Theme: City of Bones

Lately, City of Bones has been all the rage. And if you've seen the movie, or at least the trailer, you would probably say that the rage is reasonable. And it would also be reasonable to assume that if the movie was that exciting (kind of), then the books would be pretty good. And, therefore, they must be read.

Not only was the book incredibly descriptive, but I thought that there were many important, if not cliche, life lessons embedded in the story. A particularly big one was forgiveness. When you've been wronged, you feel the deep, fiery pits of hate in you, and you think it perfectly reasonable for all the revenge and hard feelings and shenanigans to come out. But when you look it it from an outside point of view, in this case, getting the entire story, you can't help thinking, This is stupid. Just forgive her already. There are bigger problems at hand, and all you can worry about is how selfish girls are. Which leads to another point, which is seeing the bigger picture, and from another point of view. Maybe your mother abandoned you because she thought you were dead, not because she didn't care about you. She probably keeps your picture in a box and cries over it every night. Maybe your father is sweet-talking you not because he cares for you, but because hes trying to get you on his side so he can fulfill his plans to eliminate an entire race, a plan which you should be stopping.

But my point is, learn to forgive and forget. All throughout the book, dumb things happened which could have been prevented if the character's rage was contained. Whether it was Clary's mother being kidnapped because Clary was angry about being taken away from her friends and left her mother alone for a few hours, or Jace being kidnapped because Hodge was spiteful about the way his life turned out, or a LOT of werewolves dying just because they wanted to get Jace back, so many lives and so much time could have been saved if we all hadn't been stubborn humans, whether you had angel blood or not.