Finished City of Bones..
Read it in 12 days (slow, so slow).. There were things happening all the time, - I was thankful for that after all those slow pace books.
Loads of parallelisms with Harry Potter universe-and-objects. Much work isn't required to recognize many of them.
The author is a BL fangirl! The book is full of soft fanservice at Alec's expense, lolol I bet that if it were in her power she would've whored Alec out with every single male character that crossed his path.
To describe it in a few words - entertaining, Harry Potter ripoff, often funny, reads easily.