Jerry W Stewart

In search of a potion for her dying mother, Clary sneaks into the City of Glass and is immediately caught up in a life-and-death battle. As the children of the Moon (werewolves), Night (vampires), and Faerie gather for a war that will rend the heavens, Clary calls upon her untrained powers to control an angel who will save or destroy them all. Readers should be familiar with the first two installments in the Mortal Instruments series, but there is nevertheless plenty of romance, loss, honor, and betrayal to make the journey worthwhile. An experienced storyteller, Clare moves the plot quickly to a satisfying end.

To save her mother’s life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters — never mind that enter-ing the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and Simon has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunter (more…)

City of Ashes is a great sequel to City of Bones. The story picks up almost exactly where the first book leaves you. For me, this book felt like it was a little more forced than the first book. There was more explanation of the supernatural world and its rules, as though Cassandra felt as though the world needed more structure and clarification. The extra explanation doesn’t make this a bad read; it just slows the pace of the story some. It is still a must read, though, if you want to read the last book in the trilogy for the action-packed final conclusion.
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City of Bones is an amazing first novel from Cassandra Clare. This book is her first published novel and it has it all—action, romance, vamps, wolves, angels, demons, and nephilim (humans with angel blood mixed into their DNA).

Clary Fray is the only one in a club of teenagers who can see three tattooed teenagers kill another teenager in cold blood. As she watches the corpse of the murdered teen disappears before her eyes along with any evidence that a crime had even taken place. She later discovers that the three teens in the club are Shadowhunters, a race of humans descended from the angels who hunt down and destroy the demons that are ever seeking the destruction of our world. When Clary’s Mom gets kidnapped by something not quite human she is finds herself in a world full of supernatural things, lies, and secrets. (read more at amazon…)