Comments on: City of Bones, Cassandra Clare; or, I apparently think Oscar Wilde had the werewolf gene

By: jennysbooks

jennysbooks — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:21:54 +0000

Hey, I bet you’re right.

Well, darn. It’s much funnier if I think Oscar Wilde is a werewolf. I’ve been entertaining myself with fantasies of Oscar Wilde morphing into a werewolf in the middle of the night and rending Bosie limb from limb. HAHAHAHAHA TAKE THAT YOU LITTLE BRAT.

By: anna

anna — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:26:48 +0000

There’s also a Lucien in that crappy vampire/werewolf movie Underworld.

Don’t ask me how I remember that, since I cannot for the life of me remember the names of either of the main characters, but it’s true, and would explain your leap of logic better than descendants of Oscar Wilde.

By: darla d

darla d — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:29:44 +0000

I’m glad you enjoyed this – and it’s funny, I guessed most of it, too, and on one hand I did feel clever, but on the other, she did plant things so that you wouldn’t feel like it was all suddenly out of the blue (I feel a bit cheated when that happens). I thought maybe it’s because I’m OLD compared to the audience it’s meant for, who presumably haven’t read so many books in their lives – but then I recommended it to my fellow children’s librarian, and she was completely stunned by the revelations! So I guess we can feel smugly clever. 🙂

I will be interested to hear what you think if you read the sequel, which I found had some interesting departures from the expected and did surprise me with some of the twists and turns. The writing is more solid, and the characters continue to be fun and compelling.