THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS SERIES
*CITY OF BONES
PLOT
Fifteen-year-old Clary Fray goes to the Pandemonium Club with her best friend, Simon Lewis, where she sees a blue haired boy and a black haired girl sneak into a storeroom, pursued by two other boys; one armed with what appears to be a knife. She sends Simon for help and herself follows the group into the storeroom, where she witnesses the blue haired "boy" being killed; whereupon he vanishes from the room, with the explanation that demons "return to their home dimensions when they die." Simon enters the storeroom with the bouncer in tow and questions why she is there alone; and realizing no one else can see the others, she mumbles an apology.
When she returns home, her mother, Jocelyn, scolds her for staying out so late. The next day, Jocelyn announces that they are moving from New York City to the country for the summer where Jocelyn's best friend, Luke, has a house. Clary, upset by the unexpected move, confides in Simon that she knows almost nothing about her mother or her entire family. Simon mentions seeing thin, white scars on Jocelyn's back and shoulders, but Clary dismisses this. They go to a poetry reading where Clary sees Jace, one of the boys she saw, who privately tells Clary about demon-hunters, called Shadowhunters or Nephilim, and claims Clary is not a mundane (ordinary human). Clary answers a call from Jocelyn, who frantically warns her not to come home and to tell Luke that "he" has found her. The call ends abruptly. After failure to telephone back, Clary returns to her house and finds it in disarray, with her mother gone. She is attacked by another demon, which she kills with Jace's sensor; and Jace brings Clary to the "institute": the local headquarters of the Shadowhunters, where she is introduced to two other hunters, Isabelle and Alec, and the tutor, Hodge. Jace and Clary return to Clary's house and meet her neighbor, who has a teleportation portal. To find her mother, Clary, followed by Jace, rushes through the portal, and they land at Luke's bookstore and find Simon, in search of Clary. The three hide inside the store. Luke returns with two men, Pangborn and Blackwell, whom Valentine sent to interrogate Luke about the Mortal Cup: a talisman sought by both parties. Luke claims ignorance of where Jocelyn hid the Mortal Cup, and refuses to negotiate with them or interfere with Valentine's plans. Clary and Jace, accompanied by Simon, tell Hodge what they learned, and Hodge tells them about the Circle: a group of Shadowhunters that Valentine formed to eliminate all Downworlders (vampire, werewolves, faeries, warlocks, and others), which Jocelyn, Valentine's wife, was forced to join. Clary and Jace go to the Silent City to speak to the Silent Brothers, who tell them that a block in her mind prevents her from remembering the Shadow World; itself placed by Magnus Bane. Isabelle meanwhile has found an invitation in the demon's pocket (the one that Jace had killed at the Pandemonium Club), to a warlock's party hosted by Magnus Bane. At the party, Clary meets Magnus Bane, who says his spell is too complex to remove but will fade naturally if it is not re-enforced every two years, and was placed at the behest of Jocelyn. During the party, Simon ignores Isabelle's warning and drinks a blue liquid that transforms him into a rat. Vampires take him thinking Simon was one of their own; but Clary and Jace rescue him, and restore him to human form. That night, Jace takes Clary to the Institute's greenhouse on a midnight picnic to celebrate Clary's sixteenth birthday.
As her memories emerge, Clary deduces that the Mortal Cup is hidden in one of Madame Dorothea's tarot cards. Clary retrieves the Cup, but a demon possessed Madame Dorothea attempts to take it. Aided by Simon, they escape and return to the Institute where Hodge hands over the Cup and an unconscious Jace to Valentine. Hodge flees, pursued by Clary. Hodge attacks her in an alleyway, but she is unexpectedly saved by Luke, who is a werewolf. While Luke's werewolf pack attack Valentine's followers, Clary locates her mother, who is unconscious, and also finds Jace, who says Valentine identified Jace himself as his son; this dismays both Jace and Clary. Valentine entices Jace to return to Idris with him. Jace refuses, and Valentine escapes through a portal with the Cup, smashing the portal behind him.
MY REVIEW
so this book what to say about it, its literally awesome it has everything action comedy romance everything its just a great book characters are also very well interpreted its about a 15 year old red headed girl who's great at painting and leads a normal life but as in every young adult novel she finds out that her mother has lied to her that she is a normal teenager but actually she is a shadowhunter i.e she has half angel blood and half human blood and whom she had thought was her father was actually a stranger and her real father is a super villain(boom!!!) Valentine she meets jace wayland(actually herondale)who is also a shadowhunter and introduces her to shadow world after her mother is kidnapped she goes to great lengths and saves her mother in the end and finds out that she is in a supernatural sleep in the process of saving her mother she finds the mortal cup finds out that her neighbor is also a monster and i am not telling anymore go read it yourself if you haven't and if you really haven't then what are you waiting for go grab it now!!!
Here's quote of the book
“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
PLOT
Clary's mother, Jocelyn has not woken up yet, so Clary is now living at Luke's house. Clary's emotions are tangled when Simon kisses her and starts calling her his girlfriend. Jace has been exiled from the institute under suspicions of being a spy for Valentine. He heads to a bar, Hunter's Moon, having nowhere to live now, only to discover that a werechild was slain nearby and that the pack wants his help. Jace refuses to help and is attacked by the pack, only to be saved by Luke, the pack leader. After some prompting by Luke, Jace returns to the institute to confront Alec's and Izzy's mother who had kicked him out, upon his arrival she reveals that the inquisitor was coming and she was only trying to spare him.
Clary returns to the institute after she receives a text message from Izzy saying that Jace had angered the inquisitor and has been imprisoned in the Silent City. While sitting in his cell, Jace begins to hear something attacking the Silent Brothers and discovers that Valentine had killed the Silent Brothers to get the second Infernal Device - The Mortal Sword. Clary, Izzy, and Alec respond to a distress call from the Silent City, only to discover that the Silent Brothers had all been slayed. Clary frees Jace using an amplified version of the opening rune, that appeared to her amidst her panic of freeing Jace, only for the Inquisitor to appear, along with a large group of armed Shadowhunters, and accuse Jace of helping Valentine, since he was supposed to go on trial by the sword and now it is gone Magnus Bane, is called to the scene by Alec, and offers to keep Jace as a prisoner in his apartment, where he and the others try to figure out Valentine's potential plans. Jace later receives an offer from the Queen of the Seelie Court to visit her court. Jace goes with Simon, Izzy and Clary. The group tries to convinces the Queen to aid them in the defeat of Valentine, The Queen says she is not sure if she will help and also mentions how their court knows deep secrets, like how Jace and Clary are their father's wonderful experiments come to life. The group is confused and decides to leave. However, Clary is tricked into consuming faery food, and is only allowed to leave by kissing "whom she most desires". At first Simon offers to kisses her, but the Queen tells him he is not the one "she desires most". Clary and Izzy suggests that the kiss might be from Jace. The three are reluctant at first, because Clary is Jace's sister, but after Izzy insists that she too would kiss Alec to free him, Jace kisses Clary. The kiss suddenly becomes intense and passionate, and afterwards Clary is free, proving that Jace's kiss is the one she most desires. This hurt Simon, so he storms off after they return to their realm. Jace and Clary confess their love to each other and Clary immediately regrets it. Jace suggests keeping a secret relationship, to which Clary replies that it would eventually be discovered and that she is unwilling to lie to their friends and family.
Later, Raphael shows up at the Institute with Simon who is on the verge of death. The vampire explains that Simon's small initial intake of vampire blood earlier at the Hotel Dumort made Simon believe he was turning into a vampire, and he went to the Hotel Dumort to see Raphael. He then was devoured by vampires, mixing his blood with theirs. Thus, as the only way left to save him, Simon is buried and transforms into a vampire, which causes a distraught Clary to ignore Jace as a result of her concern over Simon and his new undead status. While discussing how to potentially tell Simon'a mother about his vampire transformation with Clary, Maia comes into the house with wounds too severe for Luke to treat. Magnus heals Maia while Luke decides to check outside to see if the demons are still there. Luke is attacked and gets badly injured. Jace, Simon, and Clary battle the demons outside of the house. The demons flee after seeing Clary's rune on her forearm which she got during a dream of her mother blessing her. They return to the house to rest with the others and end up talking about the remarkably powerful rune Clary used to free Jace earlier. Clary reveals that it was something she just thought of, and everyone opposes her, saying that nobody can simply make up a rune as it is created by angels. Clary is dared to make a new rune, and she ends up making a fearless rune, as suggested by Jace. They try it on Alec, whose parents and sister arrive suddenly. Alec suddenly approaches his parents, saying he's seeing someone who is a Downworlder. Magnus magically silences him before he says who he is dating. Alec claims not to remember anything, and suddenly gets nervous and defensive when asked who he is dating, leading them to believe that the rune actually worked. Everyone decides to sleep, but Jace secretly borrows Raphael's motorcycle and meets Valentine at a ship. valentine offers protection to his loved ones if Jace joins him and comes back to Idris with him. jace is silent, but the next morning the the inquisitor comes to claim that Jace was with Valentine and threatens to kill Jace if Valentine does not return the Mortal Sword. At Jace's denial, the Inquisitor once again imprisons Jace, planning to make a trade with Valentine - Jace's life for the Mortal Sword. Jace tries to tell her that it will not work, which the Inquisitor refuses to believe as she devises a plan of revenge on Valentine because he killed her son. While she is traveling to see Simon, Maia is attacked by a demon , who comes to her in the form of her dead brother, after which Valentine kidnaps her.
Clary and the others discover Maia's kidnapping and rescue her with the help once again of Magnus, but not before Valentine drains Simon's blood. Jace manages to restore life to Simon by feeding him his blood, after which the Inquisitor appears. After seeing Jaces's star-shaped scar on his shoulder, she begins to suggest something about who his parents are, but she jumped in front of Jace saving him from a demon. She dies later, leaving Jace confused at her sudden change of heart.
Meanwhile, one of Valentine's demons kidnaps Clary and brings her to his boat where Valentine intimidates her with the Mortal Sword. Jace and Simon find and rescue her and Valentine admits that Jace only chose to fight on his side because he loves Clary more than as a sister. He knew of this when Jace saw a demon, that transforms into the thing you fear the most, it appeared to him in the form of Clary dying, the second time he saw the demon it appeared to him as Valentine, he continued to kill the demon. Clary makes an opening rune on the ship's metal, which causes all of the ship's pieces to open up, making it explode. Clary falls in the river and is saved by nixies the Seelie Queen sent to help. The group escapes by truck, where Simon discovers that Jace's blood has made him a "Daylighter", a vampire that can tolerate the sun's heat. After a talk with Luke about love and his regrets of not telling Clary's mother how he felt about her, Clary finally decides to tell Jace of her love for him and her sudden change of mind to start a relationship, regardless of its consequences. However, before she can say anything, Jace tells her that he will only act as her brother from then on, breaking her heart. As Clary reels from this, she meets a woman who introduces herself as one of Jocelyn's friend, and says that she knows how to wake up Clary's mother.
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