BTW: I've become obsessed and by obsessed I mean OBSESSED! Also, this is three or four pages long.
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is the first book in
the Mortal Instruments series. It starts off with Clary Fray going to a club
called Pandemonium with her best friend Simon. While in the club Clary
witnesses a murder. When she asks the murderers what they were doing they were
surprised that she could see them. One
of them, Jace, explains that they are shadowhunters and what they killed was
not a person, but a demon. Later on, while going to a poetry reading for Simon’s
friend Eric, Clary see’s Jace again. He tells her to meet him behind the coffee
shop they were in. Clary follows Jace out and he explains about shadowhunters
and demons. While he is explaining this to Clary, she gets a phone call from
her mother. Her mother tells her not to come home. All Clary can hear is loud
noises in the background before the call ends. Clary grabs what she thinks is
Jace’s cell phone and runs home. When
she gets home she finds a giant serpent-like creature in her home. The creature
attacks her and she shoves Jace’s cell phone, which she now has figured out is
a censor, into the demon’s mouth. This stalls the demon but it still comes back
to attack her before Jace comes in and saves her. Unfortunately, the demon bit
Clary and she is unconscious. When she wakes up she is in the institute with
Isabelle hovering over her. Isabelle offers Clary some clothes and a shower
before leaving to get Jace. When Clary walks out in her much too big borrowed
clothes Jace is waiting for her. Jace says he is going to take her to someone
named Hodge. Jace takes Clary to the gigantic library where Hodge is sitting at
a big desk. Hodge explains to Clary the best he can about the shadowhunter
world, and her mother. A few days later
they decide to go back to Clary’s apartment to see if they can find anything.
When they get to her apartment, Clary asks her neighbor Dorthia if she knows
anything about her mother. Dorthia (a “witch”) tries to read Clary and use tarot
cards. Dorthia explains that her mother painted them. While in Dorthia’s
apartment, Clary and Jace find a portal. Clary steps in, and the next thing she
knows she and Jace are at her Mom’s best friend, Luke’s house / bookstore.
While they are there they find Simon. Simon explains that he saw Luke packing a
green duffel bag with a bunch of weapons and wanted to see what they were for.
Clary and Jace go inside Luke’s house. There they find two men speaking with
Luke about Clary’s mother. Jace uses his stele to build an invisible wall
around them and they hear Luke say he never cared about Jocelyn. Later on in
the story, the clave comes to visit Clary. They try to read her thoughts to see
what she knows about the shadowhunter world. They can’t find much because there
is a block in her mind. They decide to take Clary to the City of Bones where
the silent brothers can remove her mind block. When she gets to the City of
Bones the silent brothers are unable to read her mind, but she finds out that a
warlock named Magnus Bane put it there. She and Jace must find him so he can
remove the block. When Clary and Jace do find Magnus, they find out he lives in
Brooklyn and is having a party. It just so happens that Isabelle somehow
charmed herself an invitation. When Isabelle,
Clary, Jace, Simon, and Alec get to the party, Jace and Clary decide to find Magnus,
while Alec and Isabelle watch Simon, a mundane.
Once Clary and Jace find Magnus, a VERY sparkly warlock, he tells them
that he cannot fully remove the block that he put there, but he explains how
her mother told him to put it in her mind and has her stare at a rune. This
rune helps Clary get past the glamour (the way mundanes see things) and see
things for what they truly are. When Clary and Jace leave Magnus’ room they
find that Simon has been turned into a rat. Clary puts him in her backpack, and
prepares to leave. Magnus declares the party over because too many vampires are
complaining about somebody pouring holy water in there motorcycles. As everyone
is leaving a vampire grabs Simon out of Clary’s backpack. While walking to the
subway, Clary discovers Simon is missing. Jace tells Alec and Isabelle to go
home, but Clary and he go to Hotel Dumont, the vampire’s hangout. When they get
to the hotel a boy named Rafiel tries to keep them out. Clary and Jace go in
anyway and get attacked by multiple vampires. While being attacked, Jace sees
that Rafiel has Simon. Jace threatens to tell the Clave the vampires broke the
accords if they don’t give Simon back. The vampires won’t agree, but Simon
bites Rafiel’s finger and hurts him just enough so that he can scurry over to
Clary and Jace. Clary and Jace bolt out of the vampire’s lair and steal one of
their bikes. They fly back to the institute where Simon is turned back into a
human. A few days later Clary learns
about the Claves search for the mortal cup. After finding out more about the
cup she thinks that it looks familiar to the ace of cups on Dorthia’s tarot
deck. While drawing in her sketchbook one night Clary decides to draw a rune on
the corner of the paper. This rune lets her pull the cup she drew out of the
paper. She shows Jace and explains how she thinks that this might mean Dorthia
has the mortal cup. Jace and Clary decide to go the next day. The next day Jace,
Clary, Isabelle, and Alec ask Simon if he can drive them to Clary’s old
apartment. He says he can and drives them to Dorthia’s. At Dorthia’s Clary
pulls the mortal cup out of the card. Dorthia asks Clary to give her the cup.
Clary won’t give it to her and this makes Dorthia so mad that she turns into a
demon. She also portals in a bunch of forsaken demons and tries to get the
mortal cup. Isabelle and Alec help defeat of the forsaken while Clary and Jace
keep Dorthia occupied. When the forsaken are finally gone, Alec tries to kill
Dorthia. Dorthia strikes at Alec, making him go unconscious. Finally, Simon
bursts in and shatters the dirt covered skylight. The light cause Dorthia to
fold in on herself and evaporates. When everyone finally makes it back to the
institute Isabelle and Simon go to heal Alec, while Jace and Clary go to the
library to show Hodge the mortal cup. When Hodge sees the cup he makes Jace go
unconscious and has his bird scratch Clary’s face, breaking her hold on the
cup. Then, he creates a glass wall separating him from Clary and takes off Jace’s
ring. Then, he twists the ring twice on his finger and a man appears. He takes
the cup from Hodge and frees him from the curse the clave gave him. Then he
takes Jace. Clary is so mad at Hodge for letting Valentine take Jace she
follows him out of the institute, where he then attacks her. She is saved by a
werewolf. Luke. Luke takes her back to an abandoned police station where he
leads his pack of werewolves. He
explains to Clary how he became a werewolf, how Valentine tried to make him
kill himself, and how he searched for Clary’s mother across the country. Clary
finds out that Valentine is staying at a certain place and Luke and his pack
plan to go and get back the mortal cup for the clave and save Clary’s mother.
When Clary and Luke get to the place surrounded by the rest of the pack, Clary
and Luke go inside. There, they find Clary’s mother chained to a bed, dying.
Clary and Luke try to unchain her but are caught by two of Valentine’s
servants. They take them up to Valentine where Jace is sitting completely
healed. Jace explains how Valentine is his real father, and he had lied to him
about his last name. Valentine explains how Clary and Jace are really brother
and sister! Then Valentine notices Luke. Luke and Valentine get into a huge
fight on the floor until Valentine almost kills Luke. Jace steps in and saves
him. Jace and Clary realize how evil Valentine is, but it is too late because
Valentine has already portaled back to Idris through the mirror then shattered
the portal into pieces with the mortal cup. I hope they can heal Clary’s
mother. I would recommend this book to Harry Potter fans because this book
incorporated some similar ideas.
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