It has an excellent cast (Jamie Campbell Bower, Lily Collins, Lena Headey, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers). But, as The New York Times' Jeannette Catsoulis put it , the book's "everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach to the supernatural — an ever-shifting feud of werewolves and warlocks, vampires and assorted demonic entities" meant that "too much of the film feels like shorthand, a trail of teasing crumbs to lead us to the inevitable sequels." Lazier critics resorted to calling it a Twilight rip-off, which it isn't really.Meanwhile, Clare was back to defending herself. This time, it was the question of whether she had been "bragging" about her involvement with the movie but then changed her tune once it failed at the box office. It does sort of seem like she did flip-flop, but in this Tumblr essay , she also made some very good points about how misogynist the attacks on her seemed this time around. "Because saying you gave an opinion about your work — indicating you were willing to even have an argument about it, especially an argument with men — indicates that you think your work has value, and for a woman to think her work has any value is one of the worst things she can do, especially online."Then, everyone moved on. All but the most devout fans stopped talking about a City of Ashes sequel and instead looked forward to Clare's new books. She began a middle-grade fantasy series called Magisterium with her close friend Holly Black, and she announced that a sequel series to The Mortal Instruments set in Los Angeles, The Dark Artifices, is set to launch with the release of Lady Midnight this March.A year after City of Bones' failure, Constantin Film renewed fans' dashed hopes by announcing the series would instead be adapted for television. "There was so much from the book that we had to leave out of the Mortal Instruments film. In the series we'll be able to go deeper and explore this world in greater detail and depth," Martin Moszkowicz, Constantin's head of TV and film told The Hollywood Reporter