I remember circa 2013 when The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones came out and subsequently became a massive financial bomb. I remember the prevailing sentiment at the time being that the Young Adult novel film adaptation was either dead or dying, with the last glimmers of hope being the Hunger Games, which at the time was about to release its second film, and Divergent, which would come out a year later and was, by all accounts, looking to be another major hit franchise. My, how times change.
