Has anyone read The Mortal Instruments series and if so, how good is it?
Has anyone read The Mortal Instruments series and if so, how good is it?
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Apparently I’m the only person on Earth who didn’t like it
You’re not alone! I didn’t like them either.
I didn’t like them, either.
The World of Shadowhunters is really amazing! The Mortal Instruments is a bit of a drag, but The infernal devices and the Dark Artifices and everything else will leave you wanting more.
I love the Shadowhunter books so much, but so many people read them the wrong way and don’t get the full effects of the books! Be careful! The suggested ways to read the books are as follows:
Way #1
Infernal Devices
The Mortal Instruments
The Bane Chronicles (not necessary)
Shadowhunter Academy (VERY necessary)
The Dark Artifices (last book not out for two or years)
OR…
First three Mortal Instruments
The Infernal Devices
(Could probably read Bane Chronicles at this point or wait until you’ve finished TMI or skip it. Bane Chronicles is cute, but kind of just filler stuff)
Second half of The Mortal Instruments
Shadowhunter Academy
The Dark Artifices
OR…
First three Mortal Instruments
Clockwork Angel
City of Fallen Angels
Clockwork Prince
City of Lost Souls
Clockwork Princess
City of Heavenly Fire
The Bane Chronicles
Shadowhunter Academy
The Dark Artifices
All three way are correct and great ways to read the books. You just have to figure out which way works best for you! Just DO NOT finish The Mortal Instruments before you finish The Infernal Devices. The Infernal Devices takes place before The Mortal Instruments and City of Heavenly Fire spoils SO MUCH about The Infernal Devices.
Good luck if you decide to read them! They read are amazing imo. 🙂
Second way is the best. You don’t have to switch series in the middle and it’s the advised method
It’s beautiful… If you haven’t read it yet, please do…
Hmm I like The Mortal Instruments (tho I skipped some pages when I find it draggy) and I enjoyed The Infernal Devices alot too.
But for The Dark Artifacts, I find it like..hmm I don’t really enjoy it as much as TMI series..
Infernal devices is the shit and it’s the prequel series
They’re really good! Though TMI is probably my least favorite, I love with every little piece of my broken heart TID and TDA
Actually i just started reading it a couple days ago, so I’m not completely finished with the series but i already love it so much. It’s highly recommended
I love them!!!?
Loved it?
One of the first Series that got me into loving books❤❤
I liked them — it was one of the first YA series I ever got into! A friend lent me City of Bones (kind of pushed it on me, actually ?) and I just kept reading after that. I really loved the world building, and the various characters.
I liked the movie but the new Netflix series is so cringe-worthy I can’t even ??
Tash Elle haha same here! I just loved the characters so much, so every now and then I give it a shot but I shake my head, groan and roll my eyes so much during an episode that it becomes an exercise in frustration. Clary is really poorly cast, the whole thing is way OTT and cheesy and the directing is the most awful thing that was ever done to a book adaptation. Ever.
Tash Elle I know — but I could put up with that if they hadn’t turned it into a joke. The over-acting is just the most cringe-worthy thing ever. It’s like watching a bad soap opera.
Loved this series! Cassandra Clare quickly became one of my favourite author’s after I read TMI
I…honestly didn’t like it…at all…couldn’t make it through the full series. It was just really bad to me. But to each their own.
Same. I read to #4 of TMI and it was just soooo bad that I decided to never bother with that author again.
I got to I think the second chapter in #4 and gave up haha. I might give TID a try since I’ve heard that it’s better, but I’m not reading anything else by that author again. I’m glad I’m not the only one! Sometimes it feels like I am.
I love them! But i will warn you as much i love the series, i didn’t really like 4th and 5th books so much but 6th book is amazing so just power through because its so worth it. But this just my thoughts but if ever have chance read The Infernal devices series, thats my favorite shadowhunter series by far but new series TDA could be level with that all depends when new and final book comes out in 2 years. 🙂 But enjoy!
I love her Dark Artifices series but I’ve never read the Mortal Instrument series yet, I need to buy them
Okay, really appreciate the feedback everyone. Ya’ll all rock. May have to wait to read these until I get done with my other books.
That was my plan too, but then I found someone selling all of the TID & TMI book box sets on eBay brand new for $35 total ? So now I’ll be reading them sooner than expected lol!
It’s pretty good. It kinda dips in the second and third books for me but gets better again. I read it awhile ago and still need to read the last book
Its good but also makes you go huh?
SO good
I preferred all the other shadowhunters books over tmi. And I think I’m one of the rare few who actually prefer the tv series… I think it’s mostly because I can’t stop staring at Matthew Daddario ?
I like the tv series too, it’s grown on me. Season 2 is such an improvement.
Yeah season 2 is so much better. You can tell they tried to learn from criticism of the show. Some of the actors aren’t great but I’ll praise Alan Van Sprag, Harry Shum jr and Emeraude Toubia for their acting this season any day of the week.
I LOVE the tv show! It’s a real twist from the books. And don’t get me started about Matthew Daddario ??
The best.
I actualy hate these books. They were extremly boring and I just couldn’t finish them. I have respect for all the people here that loved the books, but I just didn’t like them. Good story, but she made it bad I think
Loved the first three, the others I read just because I really enjoyed some secondary storylines and needed closure 😀 All in all, not the worst YA I’ve read, but granted, perhaps her other series is somewhat better in terms of character composition and development.
I love them so much! My fav series!!!
8-9/10*
I guess it will be enough to say that cassandra is my favourite author now..
The dark artifices is my favourite series by her
Love it! I took the wrong order, by first watching the movie and then the series, before reading the books, and I totally hated it. But now that I’m reading the books, my love has renewed?
Absolutely amazing!! Read them all multiple times already
Love it! I never heard of it before the movie came out. We watched it and started on the books. My husband actually read them first and told me
I HAD to read them. Now, it’s one of my favorite series.
I prefer the infernal devices, but thats just me.
I like the books.
Don’t bother with the series, and avoid the movie like the plague. ?
I ran through the first few books, but by the very last one I got bored and couldn’t keep up with all the storylines. Some characters were just uninteresting. Overall, the premise was really good though.
I can see that. The beginning was good enough that I powered through the last few, but agree they were less than memorable.
It’s amazing . Promise you will enjoy them
I liked it. I liked Infernal Devices even more.
Yes. Its pretty good
I really love this serie
I liked the first 3 books, but the last 3 books felt boring.
I agree.
I read the first two and disliked them
I loved it, i have a tattoo from the series… Thats about how much i enjoyed this series
First three are pretty good, last three are just tacked on and unnecessary (they weren’t planned originally she just wrote them after the series became popular). Also, although they’re quite diverse there’s a lot of biphobia so watch out for that.
I stopped at book 3. Read it and it was enough. Don’t know, maybe I will read other three…. My hand doesn’t raise to read the rest. Its just…. Not that gripping. Though better than ‘After’ (I think)
I read them a few years ago and I truly loved all 6 books ?
Actually just started teaching them today, so.. to be decided!
Didn’t like it at all, one of the most boring series I’ve ever tried with a truly annoying protagonist. Infernal devices is a better look at the world as a whole and actually good
Οne of my favourite series , even though I prefer its prequel “The Infernal Devices” more
I loved that series!!!
LOVED it, I read them 2 years ago when I was still in high school. Definitely a fun YA series and I love the protagonist, she’s this really cute/tough little red head and her dynamic with the rest of the characters is fun to read
I loved it, for me it was very interesting and complete series, I think the characters are amazing and the writing its good, it has a lot of action and obviously romance, I would recommend it. The movie was horrible and the show its worse they changed a lot of things ?
Loved them
I love them!!!
Yes! Read them,, they are incredible 🙂
The Shadowhunter Chronicles are the best!! 😀
IT IS AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL. CASSANDRA CLARE KNOWS WHATS SHES DOING. HER WRITING IS BEAUTIFUL. ITS LITERALLY ART. YOU SHOULD READ IT.
i really loved all the books in ALL of the series in the Mortal Instruments world. they are fun reads!
LOVE it! I’ve read TMI & TID both & now I need to read the new ones.
I absolutely love it! Actually I recommend it to every Reader I know who hasn’t read them yet ? do it and you won’t regret it!!
Its a good series but the other series in the shadowhunter world are even better!
it’s so amazing you wont be able to stop reading, put the books down to do anything else…..
I Love it. ❤
I love the series, but have to admit Cassandra Clare does use a lot of clichés and the older I get the more bothered I am of them.
Read most of them. I even named my dog after Jace.
I’m leaving a comment only because i am also curious as to what people say. I read book 1 and was mildly disappointed and have been debating continuing only because I want to get to the Infernal Devices series and then the Dark Artifices series.
I tried to read City of Bones but couldn’t get through it, so I decided to start with TID instead. Love that series! And after I finished it I wanted more of the shadowhunter world and ended up enjoying City of Bones more much than the first time, read the whole TMI, my favorites probably the third and sixth book. And then continued with TDA, that wow! It’s definitely becoming one of my favorites
City of Bones is my least favorite of her books. It was also the first book that she published. She’s improved SO MUCH since then. I give it a three stars. When every other one of her books deserves a four or five star rating in my book.
If you’re not feeling The Mortal Instruments series right now, you can start with The Infernal Devices series. There’s nothing wrong with that. I did. It is the better series overall between the two in my opinion, though The Mortal Instruments does get loads better, to the point where my second favorite of her books is City of Heavenly Fire, the last TMI book.
I know that I was glad when I powered through City of Bones and kept going. Cassandra Clare really knows how to connect series together in cool ways and she REALLY knows how to write an ending. But, I do understand that her books aren’t for everyone.
If you do decide to give the books another chance, here’s three good ways to read the books:
Way #1
Infernal Devices
The Mortal Instruments
The Bane Chronicles (not necessary)
Shadowhunter Academy (VERY necessary)
The Dark Artifices (last book not out for two or years)
OR…
First three Mortal Instruments
The Infernal Devices
(Could probably read Bane Chronicles at this point or wait until you’ve finished TMI or skip it. Bane Chronicles is cute, but kind of just filler stuff)
Second half of The Mortal Instruments
Shadowhunter Academy
The Dark Artifices
OR…
First three Mortal Instruments
Clockwork Angel
City of Fallen Angels
Clockwork Prince
City of Lost Souls
Clockwork Princess
City of Heavenly Fire
The Bane Chronicles
Shadowhunter Academy
The Dark Artifices
All three way are correct and great ways to read the books. You just have to figure out which way works best for you! Just DO NOT finish The Mortal Instruments before you finish The Infernal Devices. The Infernal Devices takes place before The Mortal Instruments and City of Heavenly Fire spoils SO MUCH about The Infernal Devices.
@Maia this was literally the most helpful post ever ♥️ i think i’m going to try the second approach since i’ve already started the series lol but i’ll definitely give it a go since my bff has been dying for me to read these books ? thank you!
Aww. Your welcome! So glad that I could help! ❤