# City of Bones

**Author(s):** Cassandra Clare
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/city-of-bones/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, supernatural-horror, middle-grade, horror, young-adult
**Publisher:** McElderry Books, Margaret K.
**Published:** Mon Jan 01 2007 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781428739994
**ISBN-10:** 1428739998
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/city-of-bones

## Series
- The Mortal Instruments (#1)

## Description

Clary Fray is seeing things : Vampires in Brooklyn and werewolves in Manhattan. Irresistibly drawn by a group of sexy 
demon hunters, Clary encounters the dark side of new york city - and the dangers of forbidden love.

## SageChimp reader verdict

City of Bones has no unpaid published reviews on SageChimp yet. That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/city-of-bones/verdict.json

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**Themes:** Forbidden Love