City of Bones

City Of Bones  

By Cassandra Clare

Clary Fray is a fifteen-year-old girl comfortable in her life and with her friends who goes out to an all age nightclub called Pandemonium. A very interesting young man catches her eye and she sees that he might be in trouble. She follows to see if she can help and she observes a fight to the death and wants to call for help when she realizes that others cannot see what she has seen.

Thus begins a new phase of Clary’s life. Even as she is on her way home she receives a frantic call from her mother not to return home but to go to a friend’s house instead but it is too late because the things Clary have seen have thrust her into a new world and she cannot turn back. Now Clary needs answers, which she can’t get at home because her mother has disappeared.

 

The new world now open to Clary’s vision is one of another dimension in which forces of good, the Shadowhunters try to maintain a balance between the downworlders such as vampires, werewolves and faeries and even worse, the demons.

This is the first of a series and is an intriguing take on old villains, and is quite entertaining.