“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
― Cassandra Clare
When Clary witnesses a murder by a group of teenagers at a club she is surprised that Simon and the club's security guard cannot see the killer, a boy called Jace. Jace claims that the boy he killed was a demon. The next day, Jace tells Clary that he wants her to meet his tutor Hodge Starkweather. Suddenly Clary gets a distressing phone call from her mother that freaks her out. She decides to go home only to discover her mother missing, their apartments destroyed, and a monstrous creature, a Ravenor demon, waiting. Clary uses a sensor that Jace had given her to defeat the creature by shoving the sensor down its throat, but is injured in the process. Jace finds her and takes her to his home called "The Institute", an old Gothic cathedral in New York that humans, or mundanes can't see, because it is concealed by magic. Here, Clary is neutered back to health and meets Jace's adoptive-siblings, Alec and Isabelle Lightwood. The four of them go through a numerous number of adventures throughout the book that lead to a massive unexpected event at the end.
Cassandra Clare's City of Bones is definitely worth reading, and also one that I would read again. It took a little time to get into it but towards the end the characters, especially Alec and Isabelle Light wood, and the storyline was never dull, unexpected things were always happening, and the feelings between the characters changed. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves mysteries, non-fiction, and the Twilight series. You won't be disappointed.
I remember when this first came out; the cover definitely gets your attention. Some people have really loved this series. I was as little disturbed by one of the twists at the end of the story, but somebody told me it's resolved in another book.
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