USA Today predicts THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES to be pop culture hit in 2013
Lily Collins as Clary Fray (Photo: Sony Pictures)
Lily Collins as Clary Fray (Photo: Sony Pictures)
THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES has been making a lot of appearances on entertainment website’s Must-See Movies of 2013, including USA Today, who is predicting that the adaptation of the first book in Cassandra Clare’s bestselling series will be a pop culture hit this year.
6.Tween fare for all
If the success of the books-turned-movies Twilight and The Hunger Games proved anything, it’s the cross-generational appeal of fare initially aimed principally at tweens. Hollywood delivers more tween-book-based drama next year, including Beautiful Creatures (Feb. 13), a supernatural love story set in the South, based on Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s 2009 novel, and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (Aug. 23), author Cassandra Clare’s fantasy series about a half-angel whose mother is abducted by a demon.
THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES, which hits theaters on Aug. 23, makes the list of ’10 things that will excite in 2013.’
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My question is in what world were these books tween? For one thing I don’t think most parents would let their tweens read this, and for another the book was never marketed to that audience. It was always marketed to a teenage audience. (15-17)
This is exactly what I was about to say. There is no way this book is for tweens in any way, but sadly, the movie might attract them just like Twilight did.
I agree, they are far too dark for a tween audience, let alone the incest themes and such…
Yes I do agree with the target audience mistake though! I live them and they will be a major hit but there is no way I’d let my tween daughter see/read them!! They’ve def for a minimum age of 15. But, that’s the stupid world we live in where the media and no brain parents don’t allow kids to stay kids long enough. Kids r money makers and the media will market to them at any cost
Honestly, I read them the summer before 8th grade at the insistence of the other campers I was with. (I was at Duke TIP’s 3 week Psychology course) My mom was okay with me reading them because she knew I was mature enough to handle them, but I would really caution against any tween reading them. There are some more mature and darker themes, and I would strongly recommend parents let their kids read the books/watch the movies on a case-by-case basis. This is not a tween book by any means, and the media portraying it as such is terrible because this book is meant for mature teens who can handle the content matter. (Just an expansion of my opinion)
‘about a half-angel whose mother is abducted by a demon’
WHAT BOOKS HAVE YOU BEEN READING, USA TODAY? ‘Cause that is definitely not what I read…
USA Today did not do their research. Neither the Mortal Instruments nor Beautiful Creatures are tween books and should not be advertised as such.
Well that’s certainly no surprise!! I really should put money on it,, guaranteed return in a winner !!
while iam glad, that usa is reconzing these novels they need to do their research! the target audience is for teenagers and young adults! also, clary is half angel, but the offical name is shadowhunter and so it should be revised for example: in the mortal instruments, Clary fray stumbles upon the world of shadowhunters (half human, half angel warriors) who keep the world safe an. she meets Jace, Isabelle, Alec and others and when her mother is abducted, she soon learns more about the world and that she is also a shadowhunter like her mother and finds more about their world and downworlders which include, vampire, fairies, warlocks and werewolves. her best friend Simon is also introduced and she, Jace and his friends help her to unlock secrets about her mother and Clary’s identity and also discover that luke has secrets of his own. Clary also learns that she is special among the shadowhunters and learns about the mortal instruments, special tools in which someone is trying to use them for their gain
OK WAIT A MINUTE whats this talk about “a half-angl whose mother was abducted by a demon”???? clary is a SHADOWHUNTER with, ok, maybe a bit more angel blood than others, but still. and abducted by a demon??? i feel like usa today read the first two chapters of CoB and then wrote the article. she was attacked by a demon but actually was abducted by CLARYS DAD. get your facts straight. -.-
TMI, Twilight, Beautiful Creatures, – all these books have been listed as having a target audience as “Young Adult”. Adult = 18 years of age or older. A young adult is usually referring to someone aged 18 – 25 years old. There are NO “tweens”. I am a parent and there is NO way I would recommend that any children read any of these books unless they were 16+ and as was previously stated, it should be on a case by case basis as teens mature at different ages. And as for USA Today – get your act together and do you job right. What you reported looked to me like something that came out of a no-good tabloid paper. I expect much better from you!