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    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

    By Cassandra Clare

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    The first four books in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series, available in an eBook collection.

    Enter the secret world of the Shadowhunters with this eBook boxed set that includes City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass, and City of Fallen Angels. The Mortal Instruments books have more than five million copies in print.
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    PublisherMargaret K. McElderry Books
    Release dateApr 19, 2011
    ISBN9781442440432
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    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
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    Cassandra Clare

    Cassandra Clare is the author of the No. 1 New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Shadowhunter Chronicles. She is also the co-author of the bestselling fantasy series Magisterium with Holly Black. The Shadowhunter Chronicles have been adapted as both a major motion picture and a television series. Her books have more than fifty million copies in print worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Cassandra lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and three fearsome cats.

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    • 4/5
      Besides some of the squicky parts it all rights itself in the end. I have to say I like who Simon grew into! And I couldn't stand the whiny boy he was before.
    • 4/5
      This series keeps getting better and better as I go along. The first book was good, the second was fine but this one sucked me in so fast and so far that I lost track of time and when I wasn't reading, I couldn't wait to get back to the characters. I even stayed up late on a Tuesday night to finish because I couldn't put it down. You learn a lot about the characters in this book. You learn more about Jace's background and history, who he really is, what happened to him and Clary as babies. There is also an epic battle. This was supposed to be the third book of a trilogy and it feels like a wrap-up of the story but apparently the author had more to say. I'm fine with that, I wasn't ready to let them go. I highly recommend this series and I highly recommend you read them back-to-back. This has become one of my favorite series in this genre.
    • 4/5
      This is the third book of a planned trilogy, which has now expanded to six books. In this installment, we finally get to spend time in Idris, rather than just glimpsing it through mirrors and Portals.With her mother still in a magically induced coma, Clary discovers that the answers she needs to wake her are in Alicante, capital of the Shadowhunter other-world of Idris, so she makes plans for a short trip there. The Nephilim have also been called back to Alicante to address the problems posed by Valentine, until recently assumed dead.Meanwhile, Valentine has also turned his attention to Idris; he is proceeding with his plan to gain control of all 3 mortal instruments sacred to the Nephilim, in order to help him in his goal to rid the worlds of Downworlders (half-humans like vampires and werewolves, and faeries). The only slim chance the Shadowhunters have of defeating his army of demons - anathaema to both Nephilim and Downworlders - is to join forces. But can they overcome their centuries-ingrained prejudices against each other in time?I'm still enjoying this series, though perhaps the ending was a little neat and it was possible not as much fun (though still good) as the two previous books set in New York. It's full of teenage angst and quips, and I must admit I was getting a bit annoyed with Clary in the first third of the book.Alicante and Idris were interesting, though I had trouble placing them in time; they seemed essentially medieval, with witchlight torches instead of fire or even electricity, but with one or two time anomalies. I've only just realised that there are another 3 books to this 'trilogy', though they aren't in my library. I think it's worth looking for them to carry on reading this series sometime in the future.4 stars
    • 4/5
      Say this for the Mortal Instruments: it progressively gets better as it goes along. I'll be looking forward to Clare's next book!
    • 5/5
      This was definitely my favorite book so far in the series. This one started off with action and never slowed down. It was the most exciting.I liked learning more about Luke and meeting his sister. I know there was not much to it, but I still enjoy learning more about all of the characters in general.The brother and sister love was over the top! I know the relationship building between Jace and Clary was important, but I wish they would have known they were not related instead of playing more into the incest issues. I am liking the Simon and Elizabeth romance. I want to see Simon end up with someone.Sebastian! I know so many people loved him, and I do love what he brings to the story. But, man! I hated Sebastian. Overall, I am happy I have continued the series, and I am ready for the next one!
    • 5/5
      City Of Glass was perfect. I couldn't have hoped for a better conclusion to the Mortal Instruments series. I have the tendency to figure out important plot-twists in stories extremely early, and a lot of times, it takes away from the experience. However, in this case, even though I figured out so much so early, I was still completely enthralled in this book.
    • 1/5
      I wish I could be kinder to this book but I found it to be a slog to get through. At almost 500 pages long, the story moves in fits and starts. It just felt too overly padded, with lengthy stretches where little happened other than Clary going around and having the same conversations - usually about Jace or how she didn't belong in the Shadowhunter world - over and over again.While the plot was a lot more focused than that of City of Ashes, it also felt a bit forced. There is a lot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Harry Potter in this story, which I especially felt the scene in which Valentine offers his ultimatum to the Clave. The plot twist concerning the origins of Jonathan Morgenstern, while not quite a retcon, still didn't sit quite right to me. It just felt as though the purpose of this whole book was to undo a rather questionable plot twist from earlier in the series.The book also really lacked an emotional impact for me. I think this is possibly because I never felt as though any major protagonists would come to harm, which is a problem due to the world building. While Izzy at one point comments on how Shadowhunters tend to die young, it's not something we really see. Virtually all the deaths in this book are either older Shadowhunters and mostly occur off-page. This is a problem due to the fact it's a world where people can be healed from the brink of death by a single rune.The book also wraps up virtually every loose end in the series, leaving only one real hanging thread that I can see will have an impact going forward. For me, this felt a little odd. As we're only on the third book of a six book series, it's difficult to see where Clare intends to take her concept from here. It really felt as though the series could end at this point.In terms of character, this book was really more of the same. There isn't a lot of development for the supporting cast in this book because Clary and Jace are both such self-centred people. Even when their is a bereavement in the Lightwood family, the book never really focuses on how this will effect Izzy and Alec. Even Alec's coming out is shoved into the background, even though previous instalments indicated how taboo this was for a Shadowhunter. This also means that there is very little Magnus in this book, which is always a pity as he's one of the few characters that I actively like.Clary and Jace are both just insufferable. Despite having incredible powers, Clary is still a damsel. While I sometimes felt sorry for her because of how horrible the other cast - primarily Izzy and Jace - can be to her, she really does bring this on herself at times by just doing profoundly stupid things. Her constant pining over Jace became really tiresome in this novel, but moreso was Jace's mercurial moods, sometimes seeming to toy with her and other times breaking her heart as painfully as possible.However, I really did find myself rooting for newcomer Sebastian. Up until his climatic fight, he really did appeal to me. His "reading" of the core cast really summed up my feelings towards the series on the whole. Thank-you Sebastian, for your ability to put my feelings towards Clary and Jace to words.So, in all, I'm still not a fan of this series. While I can see why it appeals to young adult readers, there are far better works of urban fantasy out there. I will probably continue with this series one day, but I'm not in any hurry to.
    • 5/5
      THANK GOODNESS!!!!!!! That ending was all that I needed it to be and more! I could honestly stop the series right now and be happy! I doubt I really will, but I am so glad to see how things are finally ending up. It was such an emotional last two chapters, but wonderfully done! I was an emotional mess at time, but it was still perfect!
    • 4/5
      Great Again. Read with Jared :)
    • 5/5
      I am totally addicted to this series. I can't put them down. I'm excited to read the next book! Love how this one ended :)
    • 4/5
      Great book!
    • 4/5
      Continuing my guilty YA pleasure, this urban fantasy novel is the third book in the Mortal Instruments series. In order to save her mother's life, Clary travels to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters to locate a wizard who might be able to help restore her mother's health. However, while there, she quickly learns of her estranged father's plans to mount an attack on the Glass City using a demon army. Now Clary and her friends must assist in defeating Jonathan Morningstar.
    • 4/5
      It's very entertaining. I'm still a pretty big fan of the series and the world overall, but a lot of it steadily gets more and more ridiculous. The romance, for instance, and all the tortured souls and people in internal agony. It doesn't help that the ending is so sappy. It's basically a giant soap opera but with a lot of wars and stuff.But it's still entertaining. I enjoy it. It's definitely one of the better urban fantasy YA series, that's for sure.
    • 4/5
      Best book in the series so far. Action, suspense, intrigue, twists, & turns. Good character, plot, & storyline development.
    • 5/5
      I think this one might be my favourite so far, and honestly how do these books just keep better and better? There are moments when I think I might have it all figured out, but then it just catches me off-guard every time. What I love the most is that the characters never feel to be acting out of character, there is character development but they always feel like themselves, and everything that happens seems to be within the bounds of this world. If that makes sense.
      Sebastian is such a great villain, he's very very entertaining and unpredictable, and different. I will probably miss Valentine, just because he was one of the most interesting villains I've ever read about, mainly because he wasn't just 'evil', I feel like Cassandra Clare somehow succeeded in making him a 'round' character that you can't help but get attached to. In a way.
      I just hope nothing is going to happen to my favourite characters. Because that would be bad.
    • 5/5
      The third book of this book series is insanely good. I started reading this very relaxed and when I notice I'm sat on the bed either on the verge of tears or wanting to throw the book across the room with all the drama going on. This is by far the best out of the 3 books that I've read from The Mortal Instruments series. I would for sure read it all over again.
    • 4/5
      This one actually gets a full 4 stars. The author did a good job of making me want to slap the hellfire out of Clary, Jace, Alec, and some others I'm sure.

      On the mobile app again so, Spoilers Ahead:

      This gave us an all-access pass into Valentine's head. And while he was a complete and total lunatic, he had real belief in what he was doing. Though the real Jonathan was a monster, I think as his father Valentine had some inkling of love for him. I believe it pained him when he learned that Jace had killed him. I also believe it pained him very much to kill Jace. You have to admire his conviction, his utter belief in his cause. Again he was a raging psychopath, but dedicated.

      I almost felt sorry for him when the angel struck him down. Although I truly don't know what he expected. You kidnapped and tortured an angel for years and then you think to command the angel that made the nephilim?! And all for a very, very wrong and twisted cause. Yeah I don't know how he didn't see that coming, 'cause I sure did!

      Clary flipping out on her mom bugged me. I think because she had so very nearly lost her, and she had defied everything and everyone just to get her back, you'd think she would have hugged her before giving her a verbal smack down. Kind of like when you're a kid and don't check in at home all day and when you finally stroll through the door, your mom totally hugs the life out of you before shaking the shit out of you and screaming about how worried she was. I think that should have been more her reaction, but whatever.

      And don't even get me started about how disgusted I am about Clary and Jace not being blood siblings! I was really hoping this didn't go for the predictable, stereotypical ending. I was totally pulling for Simon! I also just wanted a romance that didn't turn out the way it was expected to...but there are a few more books so there could be a separation/break-up around the corner. Not that I don't want a happy ending or dislike them together. I was just hoping for something different, non-mainstream.

      Oh well. Disappointed as I am, at least Luke got his girl! I'll check out the rest of the series.
    • 3/5
      Clary and Jace, it had to be resolved somehow. The climatic battle scene I was expecting never happened. Slightly predictable but diverting enough.
    • 5/5
      Loved this series
    • 5/5
      Clary is hoping to get in to Idris to talk to a warlock who can help wake up her mother. But Jace has other plans, and Simon winds up coming along instead. Idris is going through troubled times and it looks as if Valentine may destory them all. An alliance with the downworlders may be there only hope.This was even better than the first two! It was packed with action and loads of twists and turns. Surprising and satisfying.
    • 5/5
      This is a must read! The first two novels in this series were amazing but they just don't compare to City of Glass. We follow Clary, Jace, and the rest of the characters to Alicante, where everything just starts falling into place. I've read that people disliked where it was predictable in parts but I didn't find any of that to be a problem. There was action, romance, comedy and everything fit well together. I hated to see it end, but am glad now that it is the ending no more. May 2011 will bring us City of Fallen Angels which will no doubt be another hit in this wonderful series! I've read them all twice now and I know I will never get sick of them. This is mynumber 1 favorite series! They are also not just for YA, i'm 20 and I absolutely loved this book and entire series, my mother and grandmother did as well too! If your looking for a great read then don't hesitate to pick up this series! It will blow you away! Keep it coming Clare!! :)
    • 4/5
      I have to say that I really hope that is not the last book. Although after three books, the girl gets the guy, they kill the villan, they save the world, and everyone is happy. Or are they? The last chapter started a whole new set of questions after I thouht everything was answered and then it reminded me of other things from the first book- Can I just say that this series of books is like a strange gulty pleasure for me. You have to read all the bookd from begining to end, because Clare does none of the recaping that a lot of authors do. The action and fight scenes are great, but I do find that sometimes the explaination of the "love" is just a bit much. I know that they are angels they may "feel" more intensely, but it just lasts a little long, thats all.Other than that, it was a great book, and left me wanting more.
    • 4/5
      This book does tie up the events of the series well, but there are definitely openings for another book or series with the same characters, which disappoints me in one way, but in another way makes me happy. I definitely cared for these characters a lot, and was glad to see that they survived this battle mostly intact. However, I am tired of series going on and on. And I noticed that Clare has some written tics that drive me a little crazy - like always seeing something behind their eyes as a clue that this person is not what they seem. All in all, I did love Clary and Jace, and knew that they could not be brother and sister, although after awhile in this book I wasn't so sure. And the twist, when it came, was something I partially suspected. I do like how this book brought all of the characters together in some pretty big changes. And I liked that not everything was easy for the characters - there were some hard choices to make too. Good final book, although I thought with a little editing it might have been made tighter.
    • 4/5
      City of Glass is the third book in the Mortal Instruments trilogy, the first two of which are City of Bones and City of Ashes. They're written by Cassandra Clare, who, as you may or may not know, was a very popular (and somewhat controversial) Harry Potter fanfiction author back in the Golden Fanfiction Age between the releases of books 4 and 5. This makes her pretty easy to make fun of, for example by pointing out that Jace in the Mortal Instruments books is basically Leather Pants Draco from her Draco Trilogy, and I won't argue with you there. (Shadowhunters even wear leather pants as part of their demon-killing gear. Trufax.) But Clare was a popular fic author for a reason. In my mind, she's proven her storytelling chops with the Mortal Instruments trilogy. I liked the third installment a lot, and I bet I'll be going back and rereading all three books someday. They're funny, they keep you interested, and I liked the world she built. It's basically Buffy the Vampire Slayer if there were a bunch of Slayers and they had their own city, but with the "Ooh, mysterious stuff happened in the previous generation and it's relevant now!" aspect of, say, Harry Potter. Also (spoilers! sort of), everyone has a different father than they thought. The characters basically play a constant game of Musical Parents. Endings of trilogies (or other series) are tricky. Sometimes the writer has thrown so many balls in the air in the first two books that they don't quite all get caught in the third. This isn't the case with City of Glass, which wraps up all the major plot points in a satisfyingly juicy way, while leaving a couple of things tantalizingly open-ended, so the ending doesn't seem too neat. This series isn't for everybody. If you get really annoyed by angsty teenagers making snarky quips that mostly involve taking things literally, you'll probably want to throw these books across the room. And I definitely grew tired of lines like "There was a breathless undercurrent in [character:]'s voice, if someone who never breathed could be said to be breathless" (p. 370). ESPECIALLY AFTER THE SEVENTH TIME. JUST FIND SOME OTHER WAY TO SHOW THE CHARACTER'S EMOTIONS! WE ALREADY KNOW [HE OR SHE:] IS A VAMPIRE!! Ahem. Obviously, lines like that weren't enough to deter me from finishing the book. The trilogy may not be winning the Printz award anytime soon, but I don't really care. It's fun and funny and addictive, and it has werewolves and magic runes and a sarcastic gay warlock, and everyone has a weird name that looks cool on paper but I have no idea how to pronounce in real life ("Aline"? "Amatis"?), so it's basically everything I expect from a good escapist YA fantasy.
    • 5/5
      Sadly this is the final installment in an awesome trilogy. Cassandra Clare turns up the heat, passion, and danger in the last book of The Mortal Insturments. Clary follows Jace to Idris, in a totallt unexpected manner. Likewise, in a very unexpected manner, Simon ends up in the City of Glass as well, and in a lot of trouble. Old families reunite, truths are revealed, lies are told, threats and promises made good upon.Ms. Clare does an amazing job of detialing the City of Glass, as well as the surrounding countryside, and the political tension that (sadly) is everywhere and for the same reasons - fear, and greed. She has written a spectacular trilogy, and this novel does a wonderful job of introducing new elements, as well as wrapping up and closing ones left open in the previous 2 novels.
    • 5/5
      I find myself inclined towards favoring the middle works of trilogies - Empire Strikes Back for example - and Clare's The Mortal Instruments follows that vein. Perhaps it is something in the rush of building upon the introduction the first in a series provides, yet not allowing for the final resolution that will come in the third. So when I arrive at the concluding chapter of trilogies, there is always that sense of sorrowful anticipation that the story is almost completed. Having been fortunate enough to receive an ARC of this book, I am left wondering if the salivation of waiting two more months until its March release would have heightened the thrill. Delayed gratification? Impossible I suppose. I am American after all. Be that as it may, the thrill radiated from this book. I dare not comment but indirectly for fear of spoiling the surprise and delight of discovering this joyous conclusion to a brilliant series, however I will say that City of Glass made me love Jace more, respect Clary for the young woman we see mature, and dearly hope that Clare has many more tales to relate on the horizon. Her villains are complex, her protagonists troubled but not whiny, her story is detailed and surprising, and she relates all of this with skill and joy.
    • 4/5
      Clary's story in City of Glass carries on from City of Ashes with the main characters trying to save Clary's mom, while stopping Valentine, and uniting all downworlders and Shadowhunters.I never was crazy about the love story in these books, but I was obviously enthralled nonetheless, because I read this thick volume in a day. While some might say that things ended a little too perfectly, I always enjoy a happy ending, so it didn't bother me much. In the end, the series was worthwhile. Very entertaining.
    • 4/5
      Well - definately a teen book in a teen series, but enjoyable none-the-less. The twists do a bit of a backflip - or at least half a backflip. Predictably the good guys win, but it does have a bit of fun getting there
    • 4/5
      At the end of City of Ashes, a woman named Madeleine suddenly informs Clary that she knows how to get her mother to wake up - and it involves finding the warlock named Ragnor Fell. Now, Clary is ready to journey to Alicante, knowing that Fell will be there as all the Shadowhunters will be meeting to discuss Valentine's threat now that he has two of the Mortal Instruments. She is planning on going with the Lightwoods, but Jace - concerned for her safety - doesn't want her to come.In the first two books, I especially enjoyed getting to know Jace, Clary and Simon (unfortunately, the secondary characters were not developed much) and the breakneck pacing of the stories. This book didn't hold up for me as much, primarily because a twist was telegraphed fairly early on and I'd figured it out much earlier than the characters themselves. I enjoyed the series, however, and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to those who want a fast-paced fantasy.
    • 5/5
      City of Glass by Cassandra Clare is the third book in her Mortal Instruments trilogy.If you like Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, I'm pretty sure you will like this trilogy even more. Really!Like the Twilight series the stories are aimed at a Young Adult audience and, like Twilight, they include vampires, werewolves and other "Downworlders." But where Twilight has a kind of soft, romantic, misty "otherworldliness" to it, Cassandra Clare's stories are set in gritty downtown Manhattan and peopled with "real" characters.The main character, Clary, is a typical New York City teen who discovered in the first book that she is a Shadowhunter, a special race of beings that protect the "mundanes" (also know as humans) from the demons and Downworlders that prowl the earth disguised as normal people.At the beginning of this last book, Clary's best friend, Simon, has been turned into a vampire; Jace, the handsome Shadowhunter that she is in love with, turns out to be her brother; her mother is lying in the hospital in a catatonic state; and her father is poised to destroy the entire race of Shadowhunters and loose all of hell's demons on the world.What's a girl to do when love is a mortal sin? Will she and Jace be able to unite the Shadowhunters and the Downworlders to defeat their father? Will Simon rot in the Shadowhunter's jail...and who is that in the next cell??You must read this trilogy and find out.