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City Of Bones

by Cassandra Clare

Margaret K. McElderry Books | March 27, 2007 | Hardcover

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder-much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing-not even a smear of blood-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 with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know. . . .

Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare's ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end.

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    Rating: 5/5

    Totally Loved It!

    Chay .S.

    3 weeks ago

    Everything is turned into chaos when Claire's Life changes. When she meets Jace and the lightwoods everything else turns upside down. Follow Simon (Clairie's best friend) Jace , Claire and the rest of the charaters though an outstanding book series! I Really Really loved this book. I really loved the series that they have out so far! I think it's a great series about romance and Fiction! I still can get over what has happend throught out this book. I think the author did a great job with the characters and the setting. The plot was really awesome too! I really Really REALLY can't wait to see what happends in the next one! C:

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    Rating: 5/5

    A Must-Read!

    Katie Lynn

    3 weeks ago

    I have already read Clockwork Angel and Clockwork Prince, and I was fascinated by Shadowhunters. I decided to get into The Mortal Instruments, and I absolutely loved City of Bones! I'm looking forward to reading City of Ashes.

    I ws honestly surprised by how Cassandra Clare could come up with such an amazing plot and such an amazing conclusion. I was shocked at a lot of parts, especially the ending ; it was so unexpected ! I don't really like books that I can easily predict what will happen, and it was very hard to know what was going to happen everytime I turned a page! This IS a must-read! Once you read this book, you'll be hooked on the series!

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    Rating: 5/5

    Favourite Book Ever

    Lexi LuLu

    6 weeks ago

    I absolutely loved this book, it is amazing. I would recommend it to anyone who is thinking about reading it. I am not embarassed to say that I am mildly obsessed with Shadowhunters and this series. Clary was an excellent main character, I loved her and Jace from the start. This was a fast paced book and I was never bored. The series has a different plot line from others I have read. AMAZING!

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    Rating: 2/5

    Wasn't bad!

    Angel

    2 years ago

    It wasn't a bad read. I did feel it was similar to the Harry Potter series. I am definetely intrigued enough to read Book 2.

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Reviewed by Braden Lunn

City of Bones is a chilling science fiction thriller about demons, werewolves, vampires and warlocks that is certain to keep you up late at night. Cassandra Clare has created a vivid story line that is full of numerous plot-twisting surprises that will get the heart pounding and keep the senses sharp. With its "Harry Potter like" feel, the first novel in The Mortal Instruments trilogy is a great book that all sci-fi lovers will want to read!

City of Bones' fifteen-year-old Clary Frey's world has taken a turn for the worst. Her apartment has been ransacked and her mom has mysteriously disappeared, leaving only a desperate message on Clary's cell phone to not come home. As Clary tries to make sense of what has happened, she finds herself thrust into a world of demon slayers, a world she thought existed only in mythology. Now Clary must team up with the demon slayers, known as Shadowhunters, to find her mom and discover the truth behind why she disappeared.

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When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder-much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing-not even a smear of blood-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 with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know. . . .

Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare's ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end.

About the Author

Cassandra Clare was born in Teheran, Iran and spent much of her childhood travelling the world with her family. After college, Cassie lived in Los Angeles and New York where she worked at various entertainment magazines. Cassie started working on The Mortal Instruments series in 2004. City of Bones, A New York Times Bestseller, is the first book in the series and received numerous awards including: Finalist for the Locus Award for Best First Novel of 2007, An American Library Association Teens Top Ten Award winner, 2008, Winner of The 2010 Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award, and Winner of the 2010 Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award. She has gone on to write several more books in The Mortal Instruments series as well as its companion series The Infernal Devices. She is also the author of Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd.

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Junior Booklover Member Braden Lunn's e-interview with Cassandra Clare author of City of Bones
Q: While writing City of Bones, did you have a master plan for the series that you followed, or did you just focus in on the first book, leaving the plots of the other books for later?
A:. I had planned out all three books before I started writing the first one. In fact, I had some difficulty figuring out where to break the narrative up to figure out which was book one, which was book two, and so on! Writing a series is like a journey and for me it's important to know where the journey starts and also where it ends.

Q: City of Bones is your first novel. In the past, you have written short stories. Which do you find the most challenging to write and which do you prefer to write?
A: People are often surprised to hear this, but I find writing short stories more difficult and challenging than writing novels. Short stories are all about an economy of words. You have much less space to tell your story in short fiction, so you have to be incredibly careful about choice of words and how you establish your characters. It's like having a tiny little canvas to paint your picture on instead of a big sweeping one. But when short stories work, they're like little powerhouses. Still, I prefer writing novels overall because I get to spend more time with the characters that way.
Q: What was the hardest part of publishing this novel?
A: Getting published is always difficult. It's hard just getting someone to look at the book once you've written it! But I got a great agent fairly quickly, and from there the process went smoothly. The hardest part for me was writing the book! I must have started it six or seven times, with each version a little different. In the first version Clary was a tattoo artist and her job was putting tattoos on Shadowhunters.
Q: Did you base any part of your book on real-life events or people?
A: Well, I've never been in a battle to the death with a posse of vicious demons myself, and I don't know anyone like Jace or Clary. But I based a lot of the locations on real places. I wanted to give the book a sense of the New York that I know and love, so I worked in a lot of the neighbourhoods I'm familiar with, like Spanish Harlem, and Park Slope and Williamsburg in Brooklyn, and a lot of real New York landmarks like the old Domino sugar factory, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the old smallpox hospital on Roosevelt Island.
Q: What inspired you to write City of Bones?
A: The idea for City of Bones came to me one afternoon in the East Village. A friend of mine took to see the tattoo shop where she used to work. She wanted to show me that the footprints of everyone who'd worked there were on the ceiling, crisscrossing each other and making patterns. To me it looked like some fabulous supernatural battle had been fought there by beings who had left their footprints behind. I started thinking about a magical battle in a tattoo shop and the idea of a secret society of demon-hunters whose magic was based on an elaborate system of tattooed runes sprang into my mind.

Hardcover

496 Pages, 6 x 9 x 1.62 in

March 27, 2007

Margaret K. McElderry Books

English


1416914285
9781416914280

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"City of Bones has everything: vampires, werewolves, faeries, true love, and stuff that blows up. What''s more, Clare''s characters are brilliant -- she better not kill any of them off in the next two volumes!" -- Justine Larbalestier, author of Magic or Madness

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