I really enjoyed City of Bones. Cassandra Clare's writing is extremely gripping and interesting to read. Valentine and his Circle is slightly like Voldemort and his Death Eaters, but it doesn't really matter because Valentine has his differences. For one he is the protagonist's father. I don't seem to recall Voldie getting it on with anybody lately!
The characters are extremely lovable, with back-stories to give them personality and family problems to boot.
The Mortal Instruments series are most definitely aimed at a teenage audience. There are a lot of teenage themes, for example the love triangles, the confusion of knowing who you are, discovering your parents when they were little, teenage angst,, fighting... all that stuff.
I researched all over the Internet and drew so many pictures of this book, I believe I have gone slightly crazy.
I think it would be worthwhile for fans of this series to actually check out themortalinstruments.com and look at the pictures of the characters and the fan-art, some are really good, and some are like... that's how you imagined them? Lordy!
The plot story of The Mortal Instruments series is quite complex, especially the deals with the family ties! But some of the things that happen are slightly predictable, and the dialogue can be scoffed at at times. All in all though, it doesn't really matter because I was enjoying the series so much.
I was reading on Wikipedia when I came to the bit about the Tithe series references. I got quite excited about that, but I didn't actually notice at the time, except for the unnaturally well described description of two random citizens sitting on the street.
The width of each book, including City of Bones, is fairly standard, and in my perfect size range. It reoccurs with practically all the books in the series too.
I have noticed that this series has a reoccurring plot device: at the end of each book, there will be a final, mega-big ho-down/ show-down. In the case of City of Bones' hd/sd is the fight with Valentine and sibling what-the-hells at the end.
Cassandra Clare's settings are an interesting change from some other books of the same genre I have read. It incorporates modern technology with ancient myth. I love the snippets of when Simon and/or Clary will be talking about anime, or something else us young people know about, and Jace is like... "WTF are you talking about ya bunch of crazies?" (Jace never says that, but it is implied.)
This debut performace and any more books by Clare are ones to watch, I will definitely be a hard-core fan of this series, and the prequels and sequels to come!
And almost always crowd pleaser is the wit and humour, and combined in with the twists, sub-plots, drama, action and thrills, I believe we have a new competitor in the fight for fans, along with Harry Potter and Twilight.
Good job Cassandra, this series is music to my ears!
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Written by: Cassandra Clare
First Published:2007
First Publisher: Walker Books
Series: The Mortal Instruments #1
Pages: 442
How wide?: About 3cm.
What The Hell's Going On With That Front Cover?: The unnaturally well-muscled upper-torsoed man is Jace. The swirly markings on his body are magic runes. Each rune provides a different ability. For example one rune is for protection, another for remembrance, another for healing. I'm not positive of why there is light shining out from his chest, but I think it might be just some pretty dazzle or a reaction from the runes doing something. The cemetery and city is just to emphasize the 'city' part of the title, but I also think the cemetery is there to give an air of creepiness.
Why The Title?: The City Of Bones is actually called the Bone City. The Bone City is where the Silent Brothers live and might also be the Silent City, or at least in it. The Bone City actually isn't all that important because Clary only goes there to find that her mind has a block, but the Silent Brothers can't fix it. it isn't until the next book where something actually happens at the Bone City, but you'll have to read the City Of Ashes review to know exactly what.
How Did I Get My Hands On This Book?: My friend has been reading this series and was always telling me how good it was, so when I went to the library and saw it sitting there I thought, "Why not?" And I borrowed it, read it,... AND FREAKING LOVED IT!
Blurb: It's after dark in New York City, and Clary Fray is seeing things. the best-looking guy in the nightclub just stabbed a boy to death - but the victim has vanished into thin air. Her mother has disappeared, and a hideous monster is lurking in her apartment. With her life spiralling into darkness, Clary realizes that she has stumbled into an invisible war between ancient demonic forces and the secretive Shadowhunters - a war in which she has a fateful role to play...
Short Plot: A young girl witnesses the murder of a supposed 'demon'.
The next day, her house is trashed, her mother kidnapped, and she herself is attacked by another type of demon.
She kills it, but is wounded, and this results in one of the murderers of the first demon, to save her and take her to his tutor.
Along with her new demon hunting friends, she is dumped into a world of supernatural creatures and surprising family secrets.
Main points covered in this book is...
What I said before.
They meet Magnus, a warlock.
Simon is turned into a rat, and bites a vampire when Clary and Jace go to save him.
Valentine is alive.
Clary and Jace kiss.
Clary finds the Mortal Cup.
Valentine takes the Mortal Cup.
Luke saves Clary from Hodge, who is on Valentine's side.
Luke is actually a werewolf.
Luke and his pack take Clary too Valentine's place to save Jace and recover the Cup.
They epically fail.
Jace and Clary are actually brother and sister, Valentine is their dad, Valentine takes the Cup and goes through a Portal.
Jocelyn is in a magically induced coma.
Extended Plot: Clary and Simon arrive at a nightclub, Pandemonium, only to end up with Clary witnessing three teens murder another boy. Simon and a bouncer can't see the murderers, and one of them, Jace, tells Clary that the boy was a demon.
Short Plot: A young girl witnesses the murder of a supposed 'demon'.
The next day, her house is trashed, her mother kidnapped, and she herself is attacked by another type of demon.
She kills it, but is wounded, and this results in one of the murderers of the first demon, to save her and take her to his tutor.
Along with her new demon hunting friends, she is dumped into a world of supernatural creatures and surprising family secrets.
Main points covered in this book is...
What I said before.
They meet Magnus, a warlock.
Simon is turned into a rat, and bites a vampire when Clary and Jace go to save him.
Valentine is alive.
Clary and Jace kiss.
Clary finds the Mortal Cup.
Valentine takes the Mortal Cup.
Luke saves Clary from Hodge, who is on Valentine's side.
Luke is actually a werewolf.
Luke and his pack take Clary too Valentine's place to save Jace and recover the Cup.
They epically fail.
Jace and Clary are actually brother and sister, Valentine is their dad, Valentine takes the Cup and goes through a Portal.
Jocelyn is in a magically induced coma.
Extended Plot: Clary and Simon arrive at a nightclub, Pandemonium, only to end up with Clary witnessing three teens murder another boy. Simon and a bouncer can't see the murderers, and one of them, Jace, tells Clary that the boy was a demon.
The next day, Clary sees Jace in a shop and she follows him outside. He wants to take her to see his tutor, Hodge, to figure out why she could and still can see him and his friends. Before she can reply, she receives a frantic phone call from her mother. Clary runs home, leaving a confused Jace behind, to find that her house is trashed and her mother is missing.
While Clary looks around her apartment, she is attacked by a Ravener demon. But luckily she is able to kill it by shoving Jace's Sensor (that she stole) down it's throat.
Clary falls unconscious, and wakes up in her garden with Jace, who says she has been poisoned. He puts an invisibility rune on her, and takes her to his home, the Institute, which is glamoured to look like an abandoned church.
Clary stays several days unconscious while she recovers from the poison. When she wakes up, she meets Hodge who calls for a Silent Brother, who may be able to help figure out why she can see things, normal humans don't.
Before the Brother arrives though, Jace takes Clary back to her house, and they are attacked by a band of Forsaken (Humans that have been marked with runes, they are practically zombies.). When they go downstairs, they meet Madame Dorothea, and in a pack of cards Jocelyn painted for Dorothea, Clary draws the Ace of Cups. The love card. Clary and Jace are then pulled through a Portal, and arrive at Luke's bookshop. There they discover Simon lurking in the bushes. Clary tells him about the supernatural world she has discovered, then Jace takes them inside the bookshop. They discover bloody manacles and weapons in a duffel bag, and they observe when Luke and two men arrive in the shop. Luke tells them he doesn't know where the 'cup' is and they talk quite sarcastically and menacing towards each other. He also tells the men he doesn't care about Jocelyn, turning Clary instantly against him.
Afterwards, when they get to the Institute, Brother Jeremiah takes Clary to see the Brotherhood, who discover that Clary has a block in her mind, and there is a name in her head, Magnus Bane.
Clary tells her new friends, Jace, Alec and Isabelle (the murdering teens who are actually Shadowhunters who kill demons) about the name, and the trio, plus Simon, go to Magnus Bane's party.
There, they ask Magnus about the mind block, and he says he can't reverse it because he did such a good job on it the first time. Simon drinks a faerie drink and gets turned into a rat, then gets stolen by a vampire by accident.
In a desperate attempt to get Simon back, Clary and Jace convince Magnus to tell them where the vampire's lair is. Eventually he tells them, and Clary and Jace arrive the Hotel Dumont, or Hotel Dumort as it has been so lovingly renamed.
Outside the hotel, while trying to find a secret passage inside, they meet a Spanish boy named Raphael, who shows them the way inside. As they make their way through the bottom level of the Dumort, Raphael is taken away by a vampire, Jace and Clary find him, but the vampires close in, and it is revealed that Raphael if the leader of the vampires, and obviously, a vampire himself. Clary tries to tell them that they have Simon, a human, and a vampire brings him forward. Using Raphael, Jace tries to strike a bargain of Raphael's safety, for Simon back with Clary. Everything goes manic, but the vampires, Jace and Clary are interrupted by the arrival of a pack of werewolves asking for Clary. A mini-war rages between the weres and the vamps, and in the process, Simon bites Raphael to save Clary. In the commotion, Simon, Clary and Jace are able to escape to the roof, but with everyone and everything on their heels. Jace steals a vampire motorcycle, and they fly to safety.
But as the dawn creeps over the horizon, the cycle starts to sputter and they only just make it to land as the cycle turns into ash. They make it to the Institute, but in the halls, Clary and Alec have a fight about a certain unrequited gay love, and then Clary is invited up to the gardens with Jace because it is her birthday. They have a picnic and end up kissing, but leave because of Hugo, Hodge's bird. When they go inside, they kiss again, but Simon walks in on them, and Clary and Simon have a fight, then because of what she had said, Jace and Clary have a fight, and Clary ends up alone. During the night, Clary is sketching and discovers where her mother hid the Mortal Cup. Clary tells Jace, and the two, plus Alec, Isabelle and a grudged Simon, go to Dorothea's house. Clary finds the Mortal Cup inside the Ace of Cups card, but as they are leaving, a Greater Demon, Abbadon, attacks them, and mortally wounds Alec.
When they get back to the Institute, Hodge fixes Alec up as best he can, but they need the help of someone else. When Jace and Clary tell him that they have found the Cup, Hugo randomly attacks Clary, and when he leaves her face, Jace is unconscious at Hodge's feet and Hodge has the Cup. Valentine magically appears via Portal, and takes the Cup, then extinguishes the curse on Hodge. Valentine also takes Jace.
Using a stele, Clary breaks out of her cagey thing, and pursues Hodge down the street. Hodge attacks Clary, but a wolf jumps Hodge and bites him on the shoulder, rendering him unconscious. Clary goes unconscious too, and wakes up in a prison cell. Luke comes in, revealing that he is actually a werewolf, and tells her that Hodge dragged himself away. He then tells her about his entire past with Valentine and her mother. Luke tells her that she is Valentine's daughter and so on.
Because Jace has been kidnapped and Clary has reason to believe that Valentine is going to kill him, Luke, his pack, and Clary, all head off to the Renwick Ruins. In formation, they make their way up to the manor, but are attacked by a massive amount of Forsaken, Gretel is killed, but Luke and Clary are able to get themselves inside. They go from room to room, and eventually find Jocelyn asleep on a bed. She is in some type of magical coma. While they are in there, Blackwell and Pangborn walk in, and a small kerfuffle arouses. Blackwell is killed, and Clary escapes the room as Luke and Pangborn start to face off.
Clary finds Jace in a big room with a large mirror. He tells her that it has all been a mistake and that his father isn't dead. In walks Valentine, Jace's father. Clary is slightly bewildered by the fact that she and Jace are siblings, and Jace doesn't even know it yet. Luke arrives with the news of Pangborn's death, and another fight starts between Luke and Valentine. As Jace is partially brainwashed to think Valentine was on the good side, he aids Valentine in a way. Only until Valentine is about to strike the killing blow does Clary fling herself in the way of the sword, and in a panic, Jace throws a dagger to stop Valentine from plunging the sword. Valentine denies that he would have hurt Clary, but the fight resumes with Alaric sacrificing himself for Luke, Jace finally realises that Valentine was lying about being good, and helps Luke and Clary, but not in enough time to stop Valentine from escaping through a Portal. Valentine gives Jace the chance to kill him, trying to bring out his weakness, and he succeeds, as Jace is unable to kill him (Understandably, right?). Clary and Jace have an emotional and quite distraught hug while Luke patches things up.
Presumably a few days later, Jocelyn is in a human hospital, supposedly in a coma, and Luke spends every waking moment at her side. The book ends with Jace and Clary in quite a moral dilemma as they are still thoroughly in love with each other, even though they are siblings.
Characters: Clarissa (Clary) Fray: is our protagonist. She is a fifteen year old female with flame red hair, freckles and green eyes. Mid-way through the book she turns sixteen. She was raised by her mother, Jocelyn, as a single child and widowed mother. Luke, in a way, is her father figure, and Clary actually says that Luke is her father because he was the one she grew up with. Valentine is her biological father. Clary has the ability to make new runes and read every rune ever made. As well as her mother, she is a fantastic artist. Clary is around five-feet-tall. Jace provides a love interest, but their romantic relationship is thwarted by the learning of the fact that they are siblings. Clary had a mind block that made her forget anything to do with the supernatural world.
While Clary looks around her apartment, she is attacked by a Ravener demon. But luckily she is able to kill it by shoving Jace's Sensor (that she stole) down it's throat.
Clary falls unconscious, and wakes up in her garden with Jace, who says she has been poisoned. He puts an invisibility rune on her, and takes her to his home, the Institute, which is glamoured to look like an abandoned church.
Clary stays several days unconscious while she recovers from the poison. When she wakes up, she meets Hodge who calls for a Silent Brother, who may be able to help figure out why she can see things, normal humans don't.
Before the Brother arrives though, Jace takes Clary back to her house, and they are attacked by a band of Forsaken (Humans that have been marked with runes, they are practically zombies.). When they go downstairs, they meet Madame Dorothea, and in a pack of cards Jocelyn painted for Dorothea, Clary draws the Ace of Cups. The love card. Clary and Jace are then pulled through a Portal, and arrive at Luke's bookshop. There they discover Simon lurking in the bushes. Clary tells him about the supernatural world she has discovered, then Jace takes them inside the bookshop. They discover bloody manacles and weapons in a duffel bag, and they observe when Luke and two men arrive in the shop. Luke tells them he doesn't know where the 'cup' is and they talk quite sarcastically and menacing towards each other. He also tells the men he doesn't care about Jocelyn, turning Clary instantly against him.
Afterwards, when they get to the Institute, Brother Jeremiah takes Clary to see the Brotherhood, who discover that Clary has a block in her mind, and there is a name in her head, Magnus Bane.
Clary tells her new friends, Jace, Alec and Isabelle (the murdering teens who are actually Shadowhunters who kill demons) about the name, and the trio, plus Simon, go to Magnus Bane's party.
There, they ask Magnus about the mind block, and he says he can't reverse it because he did such a good job on it the first time. Simon drinks a faerie drink and gets turned into a rat, then gets stolen by a vampire by accident.
In a desperate attempt to get Simon back, Clary and Jace convince Magnus to tell them where the vampire's lair is. Eventually he tells them, and Clary and Jace arrive the Hotel Dumont, or Hotel Dumort as it has been so lovingly renamed.
Outside the hotel, while trying to find a secret passage inside, they meet a Spanish boy named Raphael, who shows them the way inside. As they make their way through the bottom level of the Dumort, Raphael is taken away by a vampire, Jace and Clary find him, but the vampires close in, and it is revealed that Raphael if the leader of the vampires, and obviously, a vampire himself. Clary tries to tell them that they have Simon, a human, and a vampire brings him forward. Using Raphael, Jace tries to strike a bargain of Raphael's safety, for Simon back with Clary. Everything goes manic, but the vampires, Jace and Clary are interrupted by the arrival of a pack of werewolves asking for Clary. A mini-war rages between the weres and the vamps, and in the process, Simon bites Raphael to save Clary. In the commotion, Simon, Clary and Jace are able to escape to the roof, but with everyone and everything on their heels. Jace steals a vampire motorcycle, and they fly to safety.
But as the dawn creeps over the horizon, the cycle starts to sputter and they only just make it to land as the cycle turns into ash. They make it to the Institute, but in the halls, Clary and Alec have a fight about a certain unrequited gay love, and then Clary is invited up to the gardens with Jace because it is her birthday. They have a picnic and end up kissing, but leave because of Hugo, Hodge's bird. When they go inside, they kiss again, but Simon walks in on them, and Clary and Simon have a fight, then because of what she had said, Jace and Clary have a fight, and Clary ends up alone. During the night, Clary is sketching and discovers where her mother hid the Mortal Cup. Clary tells Jace, and the two, plus Alec, Isabelle and a grudged Simon, go to Dorothea's house. Clary finds the Mortal Cup inside the Ace of Cups card, but as they are leaving, a Greater Demon, Abbadon, attacks them, and mortally wounds Alec.
When they get back to the Institute, Hodge fixes Alec up as best he can, but they need the help of someone else. When Jace and Clary tell him that they have found the Cup, Hugo randomly attacks Clary, and when he leaves her face, Jace is unconscious at Hodge's feet and Hodge has the Cup. Valentine magically appears via Portal, and takes the Cup, then extinguishes the curse on Hodge. Valentine also takes Jace.
Using a stele, Clary breaks out of her cagey thing, and pursues Hodge down the street. Hodge attacks Clary, but a wolf jumps Hodge and bites him on the shoulder, rendering him unconscious. Clary goes unconscious too, and wakes up in a prison cell. Luke comes in, revealing that he is actually a werewolf, and tells her that Hodge dragged himself away. He then tells her about his entire past with Valentine and her mother. Luke tells her that she is Valentine's daughter and so on.
Because Jace has been kidnapped and Clary has reason to believe that Valentine is going to kill him, Luke, his pack, and Clary, all head off to the Renwick Ruins. In formation, they make their way up to the manor, but are attacked by a massive amount of Forsaken, Gretel is killed, but Luke and Clary are able to get themselves inside. They go from room to room, and eventually find Jocelyn asleep on a bed. She is in some type of magical coma. While they are in there, Blackwell and Pangborn walk in, and a small kerfuffle arouses. Blackwell is killed, and Clary escapes the room as Luke and Pangborn start to face off.
Clary finds Jace in a big room with a large mirror. He tells her that it has all been a mistake and that his father isn't dead. In walks Valentine, Jace's father. Clary is slightly bewildered by the fact that she and Jace are siblings, and Jace doesn't even know it yet. Luke arrives with the news of Pangborn's death, and another fight starts between Luke and Valentine. As Jace is partially brainwashed to think Valentine was on the good side, he aids Valentine in a way. Only until Valentine is about to strike the killing blow does Clary fling herself in the way of the sword, and in a panic, Jace throws a dagger to stop Valentine from plunging the sword. Valentine denies that he would have hurt Clary, but the fight resumes with Alaric sacrificing himself for Luke, Jace finally realises that Valentine was lying about being good, and helps Luke and Clary, but not in enough time to stop Valentine from escaping through a Portal. Valentine gives Jace the chance to kill him, trying to bring out his weakness, and he succeeds, as Jace is unable to kill him (Understandably, right?). Clary and Jace have an emotional and quite distraught hug while Luke patches things up.
Presumably a few days later, Jocelyn is in a human hospital, supposedly in a coma, and Luke spends every waking moment at her side. The book ends with Jace and Clary in quite a moral dilemma as they are still thoroughly in love with each other, even though they are siblings.
Characters: Clarissa (Clary) Fray: is our protagonist. She is a fifteen year old female with flame red hair, freckles and green eyes. Mid-way through the book she turns sixteen. She was raised by her mother, Jocelyn, as a single child and widowed mother. Luke, in a way, is her father figure, and Clary actually says that Luke is her father because he was the one she grew up with. Valentine is her biological father. Clary has the ability to make new runes and read every rune ever made. As well as her mother, she is a fantastic artist. Clary is around five-feet-tall. Jace provides a love interest, but their romantic relationship is thwarted by the learning of the fact that they are siblings. Clary had a mind block that made her forget anything to do with the supernatural world.
Jocelyn Fray (Fairchild) (Morgenstern): is Clary's mother. She has the Clary's red hair, but is more of a willowy build. When she was seventeen, she joined a cult club named the Circle, with her boyfriend, Valentine, who was the leader.Jocelyn was married to Valentine but after learning that he was truly evil, and giving birth to a child, Jonathon Christopher, she decided that she would leave the Circle. On the night of the Accords Valentine faked his and Jonathon's death, and Jocelyn, secretly pregnant with Clary, fled to New York until Luke found her and became a close family friend. She is a professional artist and raised Clary herself. She is a Shadowhunter and made it so anything supernatural Clary saw, she'd forget. Jocelyn is in a magically induced coma. Jocelyn also stole the Mortal Cup and hid it from Valentine.
Lucian (Luke) Graymark (Garroway): is metaphorically, Clary's father. He has a beard and glasses and owns a bookstore. A while before the Accords were made, he was bitten by a werewolf and turned into one. He then killed the old pack leader who had turned him and become the new pack leader. After the Accords battle, he tried to find Jocelyn, and only succeeded few years later. He is extremely protective of Clary and Jocelyn. Luke used to be a Shadowhunter, and Valentine's right hand man until he was turned into a werewolf. He now has a pack that live in a Chinese shop.
Jonathon (Jace) Christopher Morgenstern (Wayland): is the deuteragonist of the series. He has golden hair, eyes and skin and is quite a looker. He flirts a lot with women but has never been in a proper relationship. He believes he is Jace Wayland and that his father was Michael Wayland, but Valentine just killed the real Wayland family to make it look like Jace and Valentine were dead. Jace is the best Shadowhunter in his age category, and hates being called a child. After learning that his true name is Jonathon, he hates people calling him that too, because it is the name Valentine gave him, and Jace refuses to be a son to him. Jace is arrogant, insolent, has a quick temper and a snarky, sarcastic personality. He doesn't cry, because he was taught not to, and he doesn't like to show his true feelings. show. He is in love with Clary, but the whole sibling part of it kind of makes their relationship confusing. His mother and father are the same as Clary's.
Valentine Morgenstern: is pure eeevil. He is also the antagonist of the series. He started the Circle when he was seventeen and used to be married to Jocelyn. He is a Shadowhunter and looks like Jace, but with white-blonder hair. He is said to be a large man, but not fat. In an attempt to steal the Mortal Cup, he kidnapped Jocelyn, but Jocelyn is in a coma. Valentine also faked his death, posed as Michael Wayland while bringing up Jace as Jace Wayland, then his death again when Jace was 10. He returns to steal the Mortal Cup.
Simon Lewis: is the tritagonist. He is Clary's best friend and is in love with her, but Clary only loves him as a friend. He has dark brown hair and glasses, as well as being geeky and in a band. He is simply a mundane, but after drinking a faerie potion, he accidentally got turned into a rat. He seems to be falling for Isabelle throughout the book and has had several girlfriends, but we actually find out that all the girls were just his twisted way of getting Clary to be jealous and realise her feelings for him. He also knows his anime.
Isabelle Lightwood: is dark haired, pale skinned, tall and beautiful. Her brother is Alec and she has a younger brother named Max. Her weapon of choice is a golden whip, which she takes everywhere with her. She is kind of snobby and breaks a lot of boys hearts. Isabelle grows throughout the first book because she sees the changes that Clary makes to her surroundings. Isabelle has never had a female friend.
Alec Lightwood: is Isabelle's gay brother. He is dark haired and is in love with Jace. At the start of City of Bones, Alec doesn't like Clary because of the relationship she and Jace have, but by the end of the book he warms to her. His weapon of choice is his bow and arrows. He has never killed a demon because he chooses to protect Jace and Isabelle. Alec is wounded by a Greater Demon, but Magnus Bane saves him. Magnus also seems to have a thing for him.
Hodge Starkweather: is cursed to stay inside Institute because he was in the Circle and didn't leave. He tutors Jace, Alec and Isabelle and is trained as a basic medic. He has a pet bird, Hugo, but it is later found out that the bird is actually Valentine's, and is named Hugin. Hodge is the librarian in the Institute, but he betrays everyone when he hands the Mortal Cup to Valentine,, has Hugo attack Clary and allows Jace to be taken by Valentine. His curse is lifted by Valentine, and Clary follows him, but he attacks Clary with his favourite weapon, the chakram, and in turn, Luke attacks and bites Hodge. Hodge seemingly escapes because his body is nowhere to be found.
Brother Jeremiah and the Brotherhood: is a Silent Brother. He took several oaths and has many other brothers like him. They guard the Bone City and the Silent City, and talk telepathically. They are pale, wear robes and have stitched shut mouths. They can psychically search people's minds and they guard the Mortal Sword. The brothers meet a grim fate in the next book, with Jeremiah meeting his near our dear Jace.
Raphael: is the leader of the New York vampire group. The Night Children all live in the Hotel Dumont, or the Hotel Dumort as they so fondly renamed it. He was turned into a vampire after attempting to kill all the vampires inside, alongside his friends. He has a scar on his neck where a cross necklace would sit.. He has black hair, and a majority of what he says is in Spanish. He was bitten by Simon in the kerfuffle of the werewolf Vs. vampire craziness.
Alaric: is Luke's third. He is a werewolf as well, and after Gretel gets killed, Alaric become Luke's second, and when Valentine is about to kill Luke, Alaric sacrifices himself to save Luke's life. In the Hotel Dumont, Alaric gets stabbed by Clary, but he says he doesn't mind because it was a good throw. Alaric dies in Renwick Hospital in Luke's arms.
Gretel: is Luke's second. She is a werewolf and is extremely devoted to Luke. In the battle with the Forsaken, Gretel is stabbed and hacked to death by another Forsaken. Clary watches it happen. At her death, Alaric is promoted to second.
Gretel: is Luke's second. She is a werewolf and is extremely devoted to Luke. In the battle with the Forsaken, Gretel is stabbed and hacked to death by another Forsaken. Clary watches it happen. At her death, Alaric is promoted to second.
Blackwell and Pangborn: are Shadowhunters in Valentine's Circle. They never left the Circle and remain evil and loyal to Valentine. Blackwell and Pangborn harass Luke in his bookshop, then at the end of the book, Luke kills them, one after the other. He kills Blackwell by throwing a dagger across the room and hitting him in the neck. Pangborn says that Blackwell always talks, blurting out their plans, while Pangborn is insinuated to be the smarter one. One of these guys has a pointy beard.
Magnus Bane: is the High Warlock of Brooklyn. He is bisexual and has an interest in Alec, who blushes when Magnus does something to show is feelings. Magnus hosts a lot of parties and wears showy, glittery clothes and makeup. At the wishes of Jocelyn, Magnus put a block in Clary's mind to make her forget whenever she saw something supernatural. Magnus saves the day a few times, but most importantly he saves Alec's life when he is mortally wounded by a Greater Demon, Abbadon. Clary thinks he might be half-Asian.
Madame Dorothea:
Quirks To Make You Think, OMG!: For those who have read Holly Black's Tithe series, including: Tithe, Ironside and Valiant, you may or may not have realised the following things.
In Tithe, Ellen Fierch has a band called Stepping Razor, and in the start of City of Bones, Clary listens to Stepping Razor.
In Valiant, some of our main characters are Val, a girl who shaved her head, and Luis, a boy with multiple facial piercings, is blind in one eye and has dreadlocks. In Chapter Ten of City of Bones, Clary notices these two characters sitting in the street.
Coincidence, no?
NO.
Cassandra Clare is friends with Holly Black and obviously added this stuff in as a bit of a tribute to her friend... and maybe for a little laugh.
Sequels And Prequels?:
City of Ashes
(The Mortal Instruments #2)
City of Glass
(The Mortal Instruments #3)
City of Fallen Angels
(The Mortal Instruments #4)
City of Lost Souls
(The Mortal Instruments #5)
City of Heavenly Fire
(The Mortal Instruments #6)
Clockwork Angel
(The Infernal Devices #1)
Movie Adaptations Or Vice Versa?: AGHHHHHHHHHHH!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes my dear children and superiors, there is a movie coming out based on Cassandra Clares, City of Bones. May I repeat an old sentence.
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
O. M. G.
Clary will be played by Lily Collins.
She is really pretty, and with the red hair and green eyes, it looks like Clary just stepped out of the book.
Jace will be played by Jamie Campbell Bower.
Jamie played Caius in New Moon.
It is said that his audition made Cassandra Clare cry, and that Lily Collins said he was PERFECT.
I'm gonna go with the author and say, TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT GUYS! THERE ARE A LOT OF GIRLS... AND BOYS... COUNTING ON YOU! HOORAH!
Madame Dorothea:
Quirks To Make You Think, OMG!: For those who have read Holly Black's Tithe series, including: Tithe, Ironside and Valiant, you may or may not have realised the following things.
In Tithe, Ellen Fierch has a band called Stepping Razor, and in the start of City of Bones, Clary listens to Stepping Razor.
In Valiant, some of our main characters are Val, a girl who shaved her head, and Luis, a boy with multiple facial piercings, is blind in one eye and has dreadlocks. In Chapter Ten of City of Bones, Clary notices these two characters sitting in the street.
Coincidence, no?
NO.
Cassandra Clare is friends with Holly Black and obviously added this stuff in as a bit of a tribute to her friend... and maybe for a little laugh.
Sequels And Prequels?:
City of Ashes
(The Mortal Instruments #2)
City of Glass
(The Mortal Instruments #3)
City of Fallen Angels
(The Mortal Instruments #4)
City of Lost Souls
(The Mortal Instruments #5)
City of Heavenly Fire
(The Mortal Instruments #6)
Clockwork Angel
(The Infernal Devices #1)
Movie Adaptations Or Vice Versa?: AGHHHHHHHHHHH!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes my dear children and superiors, there is a movie coming out based on Cassandra Clares, City of Bones. May I repeat an old sentence.
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
O. M. G.
Clary will be played by Lily Collins.
She is really pretty, and with the red hair and green eyes, it looks like Clary just stepped out of the book.
Jace will be played by Jamie Campbell Bower.
Jamie played Caius in New Moon.
It is said that his audition made Cassandra Clare cry, and that Lily Collins said he was PERFECT.
I'm gonna go with the author and say, TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT GUYS! THERE ARE A LOT OF GIRLS... AND BOYS... COUNTING ON YOU! HOORAH!
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