The Book Worm's Library

Reviewed by: Kate_Spader. Date of writing: Genre: Fantasy This immortal Roger Zhelyazny is perhaps the most difficult writer in my life. His books are given to me with great difficulty, but at the same time I can’t stop nibbling this cactus, re-reading them again and again. But it is absolutely inexhaustible – bit by bit, in each of the readings, my weak brain is aware of yet another facet of each of these unrealistically deep works. “This Immortal” is the most “read” and beloved work of Zhelyazny, a wonderful story of a charming personality – and, at the same time, of an endless universe. Zhelyazny does not give his reader odds; in his texts there are surprisingly few supports and clues. You simply find yourself in a certain world – real and therefore complex, and find yourself in the midst of political intricacies, a web of personal relationships and strange conventions, trying to put at least some kind of connected picture in your head like a serial amnesia patient. And having built a diagram of this world (which will still turn upside down), in hindsight you understand that the beginning of the narrative was completely logical and that everything you…

About the Book: When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder — much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing — not even a smear of blood — to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy? This is Clary’s first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It’s also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace’s world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know. . . . Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare’s ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that…