The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare
When 15 year old clary fray heads out to the pandemonium club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder - much less a murder committed but three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. The the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there's nothing - not even a smear of blood - to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?
This is clary frays first meeting with the shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a shadowhunter who looks like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within 24 hours clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like clary and her mother? And how did clary suddenly get the sight? The shadowhunters would like to know...
My favourite character was Simon because he went through so much within this series of books just to keep clary as his best friend because he loved her so much. He is such a true friend and also very human and tries to cling on to his humanity through all the supernatural and unexplainable things that happen thought out the mortal instruments.
The characters felt real and quite relatable, well the human ones did anyway, there are many different species in this series. From shadowhunters, warlocks, fairies, fair folk, and many more, there was always a new twist and turn and I could never guess what was coming next.
At the end of the first book, the City of Bones, there was a huge twist which changed the tone of the entire series and this twist was carried on throughout the rest of the series, which I found to be a very clever thing to do from Cassandra Clare's point of view as it kept me reading the book and wanting to find out if the twist would be resolved and what would happen next.
My favourite book of the series was probably the first book, the City of Bones because it was really well written and it was a great introduction into the series and I just really enjoyed every moment of the book. It is probably one of the best supernatural series I have read apart from Harry Potter.
There were moments in this series that made me laugh, cry and I was genuinely scared at some points too. It was written so well and anyone aged 15+ should read it, even adults can read this series because it is so thrilling, there's never a dull moment in the first 3 books, the last 2 drag on for a bit and there really is no need for series to carry on after the third book but they are still all worth a read and it is a great series to get your teeth into.
I think this series shows a different perspective on the acceptance of witches in society because the supernatural being in this book do not accept mundanes (humans) at all. They think they are slow, stupid creatures who need to be over ruled by the shadow hunters because they are half human, half angel so they are naturally better than the boring mundanes. The warlocks in the series are half human and half demon, which meant that they have one strange characteristic about them, like cat eyes, or horns, or a goats beard. So it was difficult for them to be accepted into human society so they used glamours (a spell to make them look like normal humans) so that they could be subtle and inconspicuous within society. This demonstrates that within the society in the mortal instruments series warlocks and other supernatural beings are not accepted within the secular society.
I give The Mortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare a 5/5.
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