My grandma gifted me this book for my birthday shortly after its publication, and of course it was impossible to deny reading it back then. For me, it was my first adventure into the genre of Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance, and back then, I definitely enjoyed it (and even reread it later on because I was quite enthralled with Simon's and Luke's characters). If I were to reread it now, it probably wouldn't receive those three stars again - especially now that I've finally read Harry Potter and can understand a lot of the plagiarism claims against Cassandra Clare.