All book lovers experience “book logic.” You know what I mean. It’s the part of the night where you do that calculation in your head. If I read one more chapter I can go to bed by 1 am and that leaves about 6 hours of sleep. The calculation leads to a rationalization. Six hours is enough sleep. Sure they say we should all get eight, but what do “they” know. I feel perfectly fine with six or five even, maybe I could read two more chapters… 

It’s hard to argue with book logic.[image error]Not all books make me want to stay up late reading. And that is OK because I am already an insomniac without the book obsession so I need books that aren’t edge-of-your-seat page turners. Those books are great too. But there are some books that take my calculation/rationalizations to a new level of ridiculousness. [image error]If I could name one author who keeps me up the most, it would be Cassandra Clare. Those damn Shadowhunter books are like a whirlpool sucking me down into the depths of sleeplessness with their twisty plots about vampire, fairies, werewolves and demon-hunters and divinely wicked sardonic characters.There are two reasons why I forgo a hard copy book for a kindle book. 1) Expediency when I travel (only if my shoulder hurts because of all the books in my carry-on) and 2) when I can’t possibly wait 8 hours until the bookstore opens so I can go get the latest book.Cassandra Clare’s books fall into the latter category for me. When I finished the first book in the Mortal Instruments series, I immediately downloaded and started reading the next one. I finished all six books in a very, very short time. Along with my daughter, I even dressed up as a shadowhunter for our local ComicCon. (Note: tattoos, black boots and all black…it was short notice. The purse wasn’t really on-trend for shadowhunters, but what can you do? And, yes, I am WELL over the age of 20 and 30. Don’t judge me.