The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
based on the novel by Cassandra Clare
Oh, Cassandra Clare. I’ve been feeling more kindly to her as of late, due to some of her comments at the Mortal Instruments panel at Comic-Con last month. (Last month? Man, that’s like twelve mnths in nerd years.) Specifically, her commitment to passing the Bechdel Test in her novels and the film (which doesn’t necessarily make a text feminist, but trying is always better than not trying!) and being very aware of how the usual supernatural fiction fare for teen readers feature male Chosen Ones, not female Chosen Ones. (I don’t know how adult supernatural fiction shakes out on this point.)
And yet, this is still the same woman who plagiarized a great deal for her famous Harry Potter fanfic, The Draco Trilogy. (The linked report was published a year before The Mortal Instruments: The City of Bones was released. It’s pretty long—this is a shorter summary of everything.) To that, I can only say, “What a piece of work is man!”