City of Bones

The City of Bones is a book from one of my favorite series of all time, second only to Harry Potter. This is the first book (of six) in The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare. This book is about a girl named Clary Fray, everything about her life is normal. All she wants is to hang out with her best friend Simon Lewis, and her mother whom she is very close to. Clary dreams of maybe even getting into art school. Then, she starts uncontrollably drawing strange symbols, her mother is kidnapped, and she is thrust into a mysterious world with Shadowhunters, Demons, Vampires, Werewolves, Faries, and even Warlocks. She drags Simon along for a wild wide, with twists around every corner. On Clary's journey to save her mother, she might meet lifelong friends, and discover things about herself that she never knew before.

FYI for interested readers - A adaption of this book just came out on ABC family, it's called Shadowhunters and it is amazing!!

Other important characters:

• Magnus Bane - A strange, cat-eyed, glittery warlock that might have all the answers Clary is searching for.
• Alec Lightwood - A  Shadowhunter who is best friends with Jace and who seems to hate Clary from first sight.
• Isabelle (Izzy) Lightwood - An extremely pretty Shadowhunter who is the younger sister of Alec.
• Jace Wayland - A blond Shadowhunter that thinks Clary is cute.  

I would give this series 5 chickens, but this book only four chickens. The series starts getting really good around the third book, City of Glass, but you have to read the first two to understand the story line. This series has amazing characters that you can connect to, and they keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time.

Some themes readers should know about are: Violence, Romance, and Language.

This book is for ages 12+