Clary has no choice but to travel to the City of Glass if she must save her mother. She does so knowing that to enter without permission is death. Jace doesn’t like it, and Simon has been imprisoned by the Shadowhunters. Clary begins to dig into her family’s past and crosses paths with a Shadowhunter named Sebastian. She doesn’t have much time, for the diabolical Valentine is mustering the full force of his power for one final assault on the Shadowhunters. Jace needs to discover how much he’s willing to risk for Clary, and Clary will need to control her newfound powers to save the Shadowhunters and their city.
Set in New York, and described as funny, smart, and romantic, with disturbing undertones, City Of Ashes is the second thrilling installment in the fantasy series for young adults, titled The Mortal Instruments. As the book reveals, Clary is now living in Luke’s house as her mother is in a coma. After returning to the institute, she learns that her brother Jace has been imprisoned in the Silent City. Jace has recently discovered that their father Valentine has killed the Silent Brothers in order to get the Mortal Sword. Clary frees Jace, and together they try to garner support against Valentine, and predict his next step. When they are invited to the court of the Queen of the Seelie Court of the Faeries, Clary, Jace, Simon, and Isabelle, attempt to convince her to help them defeat Valentine. The Queen ponders over lending her support, and also mentions that her court is privy to deeply guarded secrets.
When Clary Fray, a fifteen year old girl, goes to the Pandemonium Club in NYC, she has no idea what to do when she witnesses a murder. The murderers are three teenagers covered in strange tattoos and wielding stranger weapons. The body also disappears, leaving Clary baffled. Soon, her mother vanishes, and she begins to search for her. In her hunt she finds a barely recognizable New York, rife with wild warlocks, hidden faeries, rabid werewolves, and demons. All of these creatures who won't be satisfied until they destroy the land called Downworld. She travels through Downworld and meets a mysterious demon hunter named Jace. Jace is one of the Shadowhunters, and Clary doesn’t know why she’s having feelings for him. She joins the Nephilim, a secret cult of demon hunters and tries to master her newfound abilities quickly to rescue her mother. However, rescuing her mother might put Downworld itself at risk of destruction.
The Shadowhunter world faces darkness once again. Clary and the rest of the Nephilim have to fight her own brother in battle. Seemingly undefeatable, he is an enemy like no other. Can Clary, Jace, Simon and their friends defeat him, or will they be forced into another world to find a chance? Lives are at stake and love will be sacrificed, changing the entire world in this last installment to the series which has held readers around the world stuck to their seats for the past few years.
Tessa Gray's joy at her wedding is shortlived as evil automatons abduct her. She is a vital ingredient in the Clockwork Prince's plan to destroy the Shadowhunters. Jem and Will are ready to do anything to save her, but Will struggles with his own feelings for her even though she is engaged to Jem. In a race against time, Will must risk everything to save both his closest friend and the girl he loves. And Tessa must come to terms with her own abilities for once she does, she might become more powerful than she ever imagined. The first book in The Infernal Devices is Clockwork Angel and the second book is Clockwork Prince.
Sixteen-year-old Tessa Grey travels to London to find her brother during the reign of Queen Victoria. She journeys to the world below London, a world full of vampires, warlocks and other supernatural beings. This is Downworld, where the Shadowhunters fight against the demons and maintain law and order. Tessa is soon captured by the mysterious Dark Sisters who tell her that she is also one of them, a Downworlder. She has the power to transform at will into another person. Before she has a chance to control her powers, she discovers that there is someone who will do anything to claim it for himself by marrying her. Tessa will need to work with the Shadowhunters if she wants any chance of saving her brother, but she is soon caught between two close friends. The fragile Jem and the blue-eyed Will, both of whom begin to harbour feelings for her.
Two weeks after the events of the previous novel, Jace and Clary meet again and Clary discovers that Jace has been combined with her evil brother Sebastian. The Clave is after Sebastian but there is no way to harm one without harming the other. Realizing she has no other choice, Jace decides to gamble with fate and take up the Seelie Queen's promise. However the price may be more than she bargained for.
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