Awards

• Short-listed for WAYRBA, Older Readers 2010 (Australia)
• Short-listed for West Australian Young Readers' Book Award - Older Readers 2010 (Australia)

Overview

""Funny, dark, and sexy. One of my favorite books."" Holly Black First in Cassandra Clare’s internationally bestselling romantasy series about the world of the Shadowhunters. Love. Blood. Betrayal. Demons. First in the New York Times No. 1 bestselling series that has swept the globe, City of Bones is a major movie, and Shadowhunters a smash Netflix show. Irresistibly drawn towards a group of demon hunters, Clary encounters the dark side of New York City and the dangers of forbidden love. This edition contains exclusive bonus content as well as a map and a new foreword by Cassandra Clare. Read all the sensational books in The Shadowhunter Chronicles: The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, The Bane Chronicles, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, The Dark Artifices, The Last Hours and The Shadowhunter's Codex. LOOK OUT FOR THE WICKED POWERS – COMING IN 2026. AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW.

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* Funny, dark, and sexy. One of my favourite books... Cassie's writing makes my toes curl with envy. Holly Black, author of The Spiderwick Chronicles

This urban-fantasy series opener spices its fight against evil with sexual tension. Fifteen-year-old geek hipster Clary thought she was just a normal kid, but normal kids don't see invisible people, and normal kids' mothers don't suddenly disappear, seemingly captured by horrific monsters. But like many fantasy heroines, Clary isn't normal, and she's got all the secret parentage, dramatic revelations and amazing magic powers to prove it. Clary is a Shadowhunter, brought up as a mundane but born to fight demons. She and her mundane friend Simon fall in with a trio of Shadowhunter teens, and are soon embroiled in a quest to understand Clary's past - and incidentally save the world. Rich descriptions occasionally devolve into purple prose, but the story's sensual flavor comes from the wealth of detail: demons with facial piercings, diners serving locusts and honey, pretty gay warlocks and cameo appearances from other urban fantasies' characters. Complicated romantic triangles keep the excitement high even when the dramatic revelations tend toward the ridiculous. Lush and fun. (Fantasy. YA) (Kirkus Reviews)

Hannah writes: The Mortal Instruments trilogy (Book 2 is City of Ashes, Book 3 is City of Glass) is urban fantasy at its best. You will be lured instantaneously into the world of Werewolves, Vampires, Faeries and the Shadowhunter: a secret tribe dedicated to ridding the earth of grotesque demons. Invisible to us folk, these mysterious warriors are covered in gold-like tattoos, wield bizarre and deadly weapons, possess incredible speed and strength and have the power of the sight. They are also super cool! The characters in this trilogy are brilliant and a lot of fun and the plot is a non-stop whirlwind of action, suspense, adventure, excitement and romance. It'll have you hooked in no time. Plus, once you are hooked you can get into Clare's brand new Infernal Devices trilogy (which is actually a prequel series to this one), starting with Clockwork Angel, out now).

Author Information

Cassandra Clare is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series, the Last Hours series, the Dark Artifices trilogy and the Infernal Devices trilogy. She is the co-author of the Eldest Curses series with Wesley Chu; The Shadowhunters' Codex with Joshua Lewis; The Bane Chronicles with Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson; Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy with Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson and Robin Wasserman; and Ghosts of the Shadow Market with Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, Kelly Link and Robin Wasserman. Her books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide and have been translated into more than 35 languages and made into a feature film and a TV show.

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