Jayce and Clary return to Clary's house and meet her neighbour Madame Dorothea, who has a teleportation portal.

Jayce proves that Clary has Nephilim blood by touching her with a stele, which leaves her unharmed, as all Nephilim are unharmed by steles, weapons used to mark Shadowhunters with angelic runes that give them their powers. Jayce brings Clary to the 'Institute': the local headquarters of the Shadowhunters, where she is introduced to Isabelle and Alec, and their tutor, Hodge. She is attacked by another demon, which she kills with Jayce's Sensor (a device used by Shadowhunters to detect demon energy).

It ends abruptly.Ĭlary returns to her house and finds it in disarray, and her mother gone. Clary answers a call from Jocelyn, who frantically warns her not to come home, and to tell Luke that 'he' has found her. Jayce claims Clary is not a 'mundane', a term for ordinary humans, as she has the Sight, allowing her to see beings from the Shadow World. They go to a poetry reading where Clary sees Jayce, one of the boys from the previous night, who privately tells Clary about demon-hunters, called Shadowhunters or Nephilim. Simon mentions seeing thin, white scars on Jocelyn's back and shoulders, but Clary dismisses this. Clary, upset by the decision, confides in Simon that she knows almost nothing about her mother or her family. The next day, Jocelyn (Clary’s mother) announces that they are moving from New York to the country for the summer, where Jocelyn's friend, Luke, has a house. Simon enters the storeroom with a bouncer and questions why Clary is there alone Clary realizes no one else can see the others. She sends Simon for help and follows the group into the storeroom, where she witnesses the boy being killed, before vanishing. It is the first book in the first trilogy of The Mortal Instruments which includes the books City of Ashes and City of Glass.Ĭlary goes to the Pandemonium club with her best friend, Simon Lewis, where she sees a blue-haired boy and a girl sneak into a storeroom, pursued by two other boys, one armed with what appears to be a knife.

The novel, first published in 2007, is set in modern-day New York City and has been released in several languages, including Bulgarian, Hebrew, Polish and Japanese.

485pp (hardback, first edition) 512 pp (paperback)Ĭity of Bones is the first urban fantasy book in author Cassandra Clare's New York Times bestselling series The Mortal Instruments.

City of Glass by Cassandra Clare