City of Bones - Cassandra Clare

Clary is a normal teenage kid, she lives with her mum, gets into trouble for staying out late, hangs out with her friend.
Then Clary sees something strange in a nightclub and that's just the start of the major weird in her life. Her mother is abducted, she is seeing things that shouldn't exist and its increasingly difficult to know who to trust.

There are one or two things I thought this book could do without, the whole JC angle (you'll see when you get to the end) and some of the confused identity issues were a teensy bit unnecessary and melodramatic.

Other than that, which is minor, this was a really excellent YA novel and a great start to a series/trilogy. The characters were quirky and fun, the book was well paced and although it may be an indimidating size for some younger readers at nearly 500 pages, it flies by.