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After getting up the carpet and tile in the basement, I sat down to work on a commission and popped in the Direct to Video movie version of Cassandra Clare's City of Bones. It obviously had a good budget because it had a lot of nice special effects and design work--the sets were perfect with what I saw as the descriptions in the book; and I liked the casting of Jace, Clary and Simon, as well as Luke and Clary's mom. The plot was compressed to fit the movie and for the first 2/3rds I though it actually improved the flow of the story, though I am guessing for anyone who hadn't read the books they would be like me on Tumblr, with "I have no idea what I am looking at" being the most likely reaction. It doesn't help that there are 6 books, a Byzantine plot and a cast of hundreds. There were some small things that I would have changed--I thought Alex needed to look younger, gay romance or not, and he needed to have a visible matching tattoo with Jace, or it didn...

Been working on a cover and simultanously reading the Clockwork Angel series, which has made me very tired. The book series, by Cassandra Clare, is one of the best fantasy series I have read in a long time, and it's tagged "young Adult" I think all the best stuff ends up in that category, or maybe I am secretly 14. (Most likely the real answer). I am also envious of Cliff Nielsen, who only has to put one character on the cover of these novels. I have had to do double portraits for ages now and someone always has a weird expression or their eyes closed at the wrong time.