![]() Hodge attacks her in an alleyway, but she is unexpectedly saved by Luke, who is a werewolf. ![]() Aided by Simon, they escape and return to the Institute where Hodge hands over the Cup and an unconscious Jace to Valentine. Clary retrieves the Cup, but the demon Abaddon has possessed Madame Dorothea and is disguised as her, as he attempts to take it. Hurt, Jace acts coldly towards her.Īs her memories emerge, Clary deduces that the Mortal Cup is hidden in one of Madame Dorothea's tarot cards. Simon walks in on them kissing and Clary hastily pulls away. That night, Jace takes Clary to the Institute's greenhouse on a midnight picnic to celebrate Clary's sixteenth birthday, where Jace then kisses her. Vampires take him away thinking Simon was one of their own, but Clary and Jace rescue him and restore him to human form. During the party, Simon ignores Isabelle's warning and drinks a blue liquid that transforms him into a rat. Clary meets him, who says his spell is too complex to remove but will fade naturally, and was placed at the behest of Jocelyn for Clary's protection. Alongside Jocelyn, Alec and Isabelle's parents also used to be Circle Members Luke was also a member and was a Shadowhunter and the parabatai - one half of a sacred bond between Shadowhunters - of Valentine.Ĭlary 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 placed by a warlock named Magnus Bane.Īt a party hosted by Magnus. ![]() Luke claims ignorance of where Jocelyn hid the Mortal Cup and refuses to negotiate with them or interfere with Valentine's plans.Ĭlary 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 (vampires, werewolves, faeries, warlocks, and others), which Jocelyn, Valentine's wife, joined when she was younger, revealing Clary to be Valentine's daughter. Luke returns with two men, Pangborn and Blackwell, whom Valentine sent to interrogate Luke about the Mortal Cup: a talisman sought by both parties. 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. Jace and Clary return to Clary's house and meet her neighbour Madame Dorothea, who has a teleportation portal. Jace proves that Clary has Nephilim blood by touching her with a stele, which leaves her unharmed, as all Nephilim are unharmed by steles, weapons used to mark Shadowhunters with angelic runes that give them their powers. Jace brings Clary to the "Institute": the local headquarters of the Shadowhunters, where she is introduced to Isabelle and Alec, and their tutor, Hodge. She is attacked by another demon, which she kills with Jace's Sensor (a device used by Shadowhunters to detect demon energy). It ends abruptly.Ĭlary returns to her house and finds it in disarray, and her mother gone. Clary answers a call from Jocelyn, who frantically warns her not to come home, and to tell Luke that "he" has found her. Jace claims Clary is not a 'mundane', a term for ordinary humans, as she has the Sight, allowing her to see beings from the Shadow World. ![]() They go to a poetry reading where Clary sees Jace, one of the boys from the previous night, who privately tells Clary about demon-hunters, called Shadowhunters or Nephilim. Simon mentions seeing thin, white scars on Jocelyn's back and shoulders, but Clary dismisses this. Clary, upset by the decision, confides in Simon that she knows almost nothing about her mother or her family. The next day, Jocelyn (Clary’s mother) announces that they are moving from New York to the country for the summer, where Jocelyn's friend, Luke, has a house. Simon enters the storeroom with a bouncer and questions why Clary is there alone Clary realizes no one else can see the others. She sends Simon for help and follows the group into the storeroom, where she witnesses the boy being killed, before vanishing. ![]() It is the first book in the first trilogy of The Mortal Instruments which includes the books City of Ashes and City of Glass.Ĭlary goes to the Pandemonium club with her best friend, Simon Lewis, where she sees a blue-haired boy and a girl sneak into a storeroom, pursued by two other boys, one armed with what appears to be a knife. The novel, first published in 2007, is set in modern-day New York City and has been released in several languages, including Bulgarian, Hebrew, Polish and Japanese. 485pp (hardback, first edition) 512 pp (paperback)Ĭity of Bones is the first urban fantasy book in author Cassandra Clare's New York Times bestselling series The Mortal Instruments. ![]()
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