Review: Too much teenage angst.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2013
I was looking for more books like The Hunger Games and this set came up at a good price so I thought I would try them.  There were things about the books that were good, but just way too much teenage angst which made me think that the parents/elders knew what they were doing by trying to keep them out of things.  Seems like the same old story, when we are teenagers we know everything and think we can change the world, but essentially we know nothing and don't do anything to help the world.  One would think that if as teenagers they were truly grappling with all these tough choices they would act more adult, which was one of the things that I liked about Hunger Games they were kids, but they grew up really fast and had to deal with a lot of crap.  In Cassandra Clare's books you just know that the love interest between the hero and heroine has to be doomed from the start due to their extremely poor choices, and if in the 5th book (which I haven't read) she actually resolves the problem it will be totally unbelievable due to the previous 4 books.