Book 1 of The Mortal Instruments series
Clary Fray doesn't believe in the existence of demons until one attacks her in her kitchen not even twenty four hours after watching another being murdered by three teenagers, with strange marks on their bodies, that only she can see. The fifteen year old Brooklyner thinks she is going crazy until she is sought out by Jace Wayland, one of the tattoo'd troublemakers. Jace explains that he and the others are part of a secret group of demon fighting warriors called Shadowhunters, and that she can see them because she has something called the Sight. Clary is troubled by this new information and turns to Jace and her witty best friend Simon for help in possibly finding out more about herself as they search for her mother, who has suddenly gone missing. In seeking out the truth of her own past, Clary soon comes to find that just about everyone she knows and meets has a big secret of their own. Cassandra Clare enthralls and entertains in what is only the first of many books (and series) depicting the amazing other world, hidden within our own, that she has created.
Violence Rating: PG13 (including death)
Romance Rating: PG13
Favorite (non-spoiler) Quotes:
Alec: "What's this?"
Jace: "It's a girl. Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one"
Luke: "Jesus!"
Simon: "Actually, it's just me. Although I've been told the resemblance is startling."
Simon: "What do you want?"
Clary: "Just coffee. Black-- like my soul!"
Clary: "I don't want tea, I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them."
Hodge: "Unfortunately, we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing."
"What would demons want with our microwave?" -Clary
Madame Dorothea: "Come into the parlor."
Clary: "There's a parlor?"
Madame Dorothea: "Of course there's a parlor. Where else would I entertain?"
Jace: "I'll just leave my hat with the footman."
Clary: "You're my best friend, I wasn't mad at you."
Simon: "Yeah, well, you clearly also couldn't be bothered to call me and tell me you were shacking up with some dyed-blond wanna-be goth you probably met at Pandemonium after I spent the past three days wondering if you were dead."
Clary: "I was not shacking up!"
Jace: "And my hair is naturally blond. Just for the record."
Alec: "I kind of doubt he sent a Ravener demon to her house because he wants to 'get back together.'"
Jace: "It wouldn't be my move. First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order."
Jace: "I wish you'd stop desperately trying to get my attention like this. It's become embarrassing."
Clary: "Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt."
Jace: "I can't help it. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain."
Clary: "Your pain will be outer soon if you don't get out of traffic. Are you trying to get run over by a cab?"
Jace: "Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood."
"Missing, as in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared." -Jace
"Jace was still staring at her as if she'd told him she'd found one of the Silent Brothers doing nude cartwheels in the hallway."
"That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I am a badass and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anythng because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain." -Simon
Comments: This is a good read, even if you don't plan to read any of the other books in this series. Cassie Clare writes hilarious characters and the relationships between them are totally believable. If you DO plan on reading this and her other Shadowhunters series then I would recommend reading The Infernal Devices first, or at least before reading the epilogue in City of Heavenly Fire because it does mention a few things that I wish I hadn't known when reading TID.
See my blog about the series, the show, and the movie here.
Favorite (SPOILER) Quotes:
Jace: "Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you'd get dressed up in a nurse's outfit and give me a sponge bath?"
Clary: "Actually, I think you misheard. It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath."
Jace involuntarily looked over at Simon, who smiled at him widely.
Simon: "As soon as I'm back on my feet, handsome."
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