Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader
Join Cassandra Clare and a circle of more than a dozen top YA writers, including New York Times bestsellers Holly Black, Rachel Caine, and Kami Garcia, as they write about the Mortal Instruments series, its characters, and its world.
Inside you'll read:
• A cinematic tutorial on why the best friend (Simon) always loses out to the bad boy (Jace)
• What we can read between the lines of Alec and Magnus' European vacation
• The importance of friendship, art, humor, and rebellion
• And more, from the virtues of Downworlders to the naughty side of Shadowhunting
About the Mortal Instruments Series
Books in series order
- 1.City of Bones(2007)
- 2.City of Ashes(2008)
- 3.City of Glass(2009)
- 4.City of Fallen Angels(2011)
- 5.City of Lost Souls(2012)
- 6.City of Heavenly Fire(2014)
- +Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader(2013)
Reading age: 14+ years
This series should be read in order.
When 15 year old Clary Fray heads out to a nightclub in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air.
What do you do when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is no evidence to show that a boy has died? Or was he a boy?
This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in an ordinary mundane like Clary?