Mortal Instruments

<div style="text-align: center;"><u><strong>WELCOMES TO THE CITY OF BONES</strong></u><!--center--></div> This is the <strong>FIRST</strong> club here on MAL for the Mortal Instuments!!! The Mortal Instruments is a series of four novels by author Cassandra Clare including City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass, and the upcoming City of Fallen Angels.The series has been on the New York Times Bestseller List for Children's books for 9 weeks as of June 1, 2009. Movie is set to be released August 23, 2013. <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:blue"><strong>PLOT</strong><!--color--></span><!--center--></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong>City of Bones</strong><!--center--></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br> "The main characters, Clary Fray and Simon Lewis, are at a club where Clary witnesses a murder by a group of teens, and is shocked that Simon and the club's security guard, cannot see the culprit - a boy called Jace, who claims that the boy he murdered was a demon. The next day, Jace offers to take Clary to meet his tutor, but before she can do so, she receives a distressing phone call from her mother. She returns home to find her mother missing, the apartment trashed, and a monstrous creature lying in wait for her. She defeats the creature, but is injured in the process, and Jace takes her to his home, called "the Institute", to recuperate. There, she meets Hodge Starkweather, Jace's tutor, as well as his siblings Isabelle and Alec Lightwood. Returning to her apartment with Jace, Clary is attacked again by a demon, called a "Forsaken", which Jace kills. They escape through a magical portal to Luke's, a family friend's, house, where they meet Simon and overhear a conversation between Luke and two men who Jace reveals to have killed his father. They return, with Simon, to the Institute and recount the conversation to Hodge, who in return tells them the tale of a group of '"Shadowhunters", or demon hunters who are invisible to humans, known as "the Circle", who attempted to kill all "Downworlders", or demons. Although their leader, Valentine, was supposedly burned to death, Hodge feels that Valentine may have survived. Hodge also reveals that he, the Lightwoods, Luke, and Clary's mother were all members of the Circle. Hodge then acquires the help of a monk with magical powers, called a "Silent Brother", Jeremiah, to discover how Clary is able to see Shadowhunters and why she was attacked. Jeremiah discovers a block on Clary's mind, and takes her and Jace to the City of Bones, where the Silent Brothers attempt to break it. Although the attempt fails, Clary discovers flashes of information, particularly the name Magnus Bane, which, with Isabelle's help, Clary traces to a party, which she attends with Jace, Simon, Alec and Isabelle. There, they discover that Magnus is the High Warlock of Brooklyn, and he placed the block on Clary, although his attempts to help her remember are unhelpful. During the party, Simon is turned into a rat by a faerie drink, and Jace and Clary have to rescue him after he is taken home by a vampire. After returning to the Institute, Jace and Clary talk and eventually kiss, but when Simon catches them and gets angry they argue with each other. Clary begins to draw, and draws a rune which allows her to make her drawing real, leading her to believe that this was how her mother hid the Mortal Cup, within a Tarot card. They return to Clary's apartment, and are attacked by a demon who is searching for the Mortal Cup. The battle leaves Alec badly injured and Simon saves their lives. They return to the Institute and give Hodge the Cup, but he betrays them and gives the Cup, and Jace, to Valentine. When he tries to escape, Hodge is attacked by Luke in werewolf form. Luke then tells Clary that Valentine was her father, before he and his pack attack Valentine's HQ. During the attack, Luke and Clary get inside, and while Luke is distracted, Clary finds Valentine and Jace. Valentine reveals that he is also Jace's father, making them siblings. Luke then returns to fight Valentine, with Jace's help, but Valentine escapes to Idris, where he has hidden the Cup. Clay retrieves her mother, who is in a coma, and takes her to a hospital. In the meantime, Alec has been healed by Magnus Bane. Clary and Jace meet at the Institute and express their frustration that they cannot be together." wikipedia<!--spoiler--></span></div><!--center--></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong>City of Ashes</strong><!--center--></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br>After Jace is sent away from his home with Alec's parents, he picks a fight with a werewolf pack. Luke rescues him and, together with Clary, they confront Alec's mother, Maryse, who says she sent Jace away to spare him from the approaching Inquisitor. When the Inquisitor arrives, she locks Jace in the City of Bones. However, that night Valentine kills the Silent Brothers to get to the Soul Sword. Clary, Isabelle and Alec save Jace, and the Inquisitor agrees to let Jace stay with Magnus while he recovers. They go to The Faerie Realm, where Clary is tricked into eating fairy food, and is not allowed to leave until she kisses the boy she most desires. She kisses Jace, which angers Simon and he leaves, only to be brought back to the Institute by Raphael as he is dying, with no choice but to be turned into a vampire. Luke and Maia are attacked by demons, and go after them, while Jace leaves to visit Valentine on a boat in the river. This leads the Inquisitor to suspect Jace of working with Valentine, and she imprisons Jace, planning to use him as a hostage until Valentine returns the Mortal Instruments. However, Jace escapes by leaping supernaturally high above his prison's walls, revealing that this is the ability Valentine's experiments gave him - Clary's ability is to create new runes. Clary draws the rune 'Fearlessness' on Jace, before being kidnapped by a demon and taken to Valentine's boat. The boat is stormed by Shadowhunters, and the Inquisitor realises Jace's innocence. Jace kills the fear-creating demon on the boat, and gives Simon his blood to save Simon's life. Clary uses a rune to destroy the boat, and they discover that Simon is now able to walk in the sunlight, unlike normal vampires. Jace is welcomed back by Maryse, and tells Clary that he will act as a brother towards her from now on, unaware that she returns his romantic feelings. Finally, Clary meets Madeline Bellafleur, who says that she knows how to wake Clary's mother.<!--spoiler--></span></div><!--center--></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong>City of Glass</strong><!--center--></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br>As the Lightwoods, Jace and Clary prepare to leave for Alicante, the Institute is attacked by Forsaken, forcing the others to leave without Clary, and take Simon with them. While the others meet up with Aline and her cousin Sebastian, Clary, stranded in New York, creates her own Portal to the city and travels there with Luke. They arrive in Lake Lyn, where the cursed water makes Clary feverish, and Luke takes her to his sister Amatis to recover. Alec is ordered to bring Simon to the new Inquisitor, who wishes to know why a Downworlder is in Alicante. Under the ruse that Simon is being sent home, the Clave secretly interrogate and imprison him. Clary sneaks out to visit the Lightwoods, but argues with Jace and storms out. After leaving, Clary meets Sebastian, and tells him about her mother's coma and her need to find the warlock Ragnor Fell. Sebastian takes her to Ragnor's house, but Ragnor is dead and Magnus is there in his place. Magnus tells Clary to bring him a spell book from the Wayland country home, and she convinces Jace to take her there. Together, they find Valentine's underground lab, where a dying angel tells them that Jace was imbued with demon blood by Valentine while in the womb. The manor collapses, but Jace and Clary escape, and return to Alicante to find the city in flames. Alec, Isabelle, Aline, Sebastian and Max are attacked by demons in Alicante. Alec leaves to fight them while Sebastian, Max and Isabelle hide; however, Max diappears and Sebastian attacks Isabelle. Jace and Clary meet Alec at the Gard. Clary gives the spell book she recovered to Magnus, who promises to cure her mother, then leaves with the other two to break Simon out of jail. While there, they also release Hodge, who tells them that the final Mortal Instrument - the mirror - is in fact the waters of Lake Lyn. Sebastian arrives, kills Hodge, admits he is a spy for Valentine, and then runs away. The others learn that he also killed Max. Valentine gives the Clave until midnight the next day to surrender; if they do not, he will kill every Shadowhunter left. He kills the Inquisitor before leaving. Jace and Clary talk, and Jace tells Clary that he loves her, but he disappears the next morning, leaving Clary a note saying he has gone to find Sebastian. Clary's mother arrives, woken from her coma, and they argue. Clary storms out, and meets up with Simon on a hill, where they see the Clave preparing to surrender. Clary remembers a rune the dying angel showed her, which can be used to bind a Downworlder and a Shadowhunter so that they share each others' powers. She tells the Clave, and people begin bonding, including Alec and Magnus, who reveal that they have been having a relationship. Jocelyn tells Clary that Clary was given angel's blood in the womb, hence her power to create new runes, and also that Sebastian, not Jace, is the brother who was given demon blood. Jace is not Clary's brother, but he was also given angel blood, explaining his supernatural jumping ability. Meanwhile, Raphael agrees with the Clave that the vampires will fight if the Clave give them Simon; Simon agrees, but first Clary marks him with a protection rune so that Raphael cannot kill Simon as he plans to, although this means Simon will have to fight. Jace overhears Valentine and Sebastian talking, and learns that Valentine plans to summon Raziel at Lake Lyn. After Valentine leaves, the two boys fight, and Sebastian tells Jace that he is Clary's brother, not Jace. Sebastian almost kills Jace, but Isabelle arrives to help Jace kill Sebastian. Clary travels to Lake Lyn to stop Valentine from summoning Raziel. Valentine binds and silences her with runes, then tries to kill her, but Jace arrives and saves her life. Valentine then proceeds to kill Jace and summon Raziel. Raziel, however, sees through Valentine’s selfish plans, kills Valentine and instead offers Clary a wish. The runes now gone, she asks the angel for Jace to be alive again. He grants it and they are rescued by Shadowhunters going to the lake. Jace and Clary express their feelings to one another and make it publicly known by walking into a crowd holding hands.<!--spoiler--></span></div><!--center--></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong>City of Fallen Angels </strong><!--center--></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br>City of Fallen Angels takes place after the events of City of Glass. It shifts its focus from Jace and Clary to Clary’s best friend, Simon, and how he adjusts to life as a vampire. From the press release: “Love, blood, betrayal and revenge — the stakes are higher than ever in City of Fallen Angels. Simon Lewis is having some trouble adjusting to his new life as a vampire, especially now that he hardly sees his best friend Clary, who is caught up in training to be a Shadowhunter—and spending time with her new boyfriend Jace. Not to mention that Simon doesn’t quite know how to handle the pressure of not-quite-dating two girls at once. What’s a daylight-loving vampire to do? Simon decides he needs a break and heads out of the city—only to discover that sinister events are following him. Realizing that the war they thought they’d won might not yet be over, Simon has to call on his Shadowhunter friends to save the day — if they can put their own splintering relationships on hold long enough to rise to the challenge.”<!--spoiler--></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:blue"><strong>Characters</strong><!--color--></span><!--center--></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br> * <strong>Clary Fray</strong>, (also called Clarissa) the main protagonist of the series. A 16-year-old Shadowhunter who was brought up as human by her mother for protection. She is a little over 5 feet tall and has wavy red hair. She is an artist, and is in love with Jace Wayland, even though for much of the series they believe they are siblings. Much of the series is focused on Clary's quest to help her mother while adjusting to her new life as a Shadowhunter. She has the ability to create new runes after being experimented on by her father who put angel blood in her system. * <strong>Jace Wayland</strong> (also called Jonathan Christopher), another major character in the series. An orphaned Shadowhunter who lives with the Lightwoods at the Institute in New York City. He is said to be the best Shadowhunter his age, having been trained severely by his father prior to his death. He is described as having golden hair, eyes, and skin, making him popular with girls, although he has never had a serious relationship. He is sometimes very arrogant, but is a very kind and thoughtful person underneath. He falls in love with Clary, but is tormented by the belief that Clary is his sister. Some chapters in the series follow Jace exclusively, revealing the frustrated, lonely personality that he compensates for by lashing out at others. It is later discovered that he is neither Valentine's or Michael Wayland's son, but he was the son of Stephen and Céline Herondale. When a pregnant Céline committed suicide, Valentine cut the baby out of her and raised it separately, with the help of Hodge. Jace, like Clary, has as a result of Valentine's experiments more angel blood in him than the average Shadowhunter, which gives him the ability to jump supernaturally high. * <strong>Valentine Morgenstern</strong>, the books' main antagonist. A powerful and evil Shadowhunter. He turns up after several years when he was supposedly dead and attempts to steal the Mortal Cup from Jocelyn. He is also the real father of both Sebastian and Clary, and experimented on both of them, as well as Jace. Consumed by the belief that he must purify the Shadowhunter race and convinced of the righteousness of his cause, there is nothing he will not do to eradicate the earth of Downworlders. Joining forces with the demons he has his son Jonathan who is half demon and half shadow-hunter destroy the defenses surrounding Alicante which then allow's his demon army to attack Alicante. In the end, when he kills his step-son Jace he is in turn killed by the angel Raziel. * <strong>Alec Lightwood</strong>, the oldest of the Lightwood children, a Shadowhunter and Isabelle's brother. Alec believes he is in love with Jace, but can never reveal his true feelings. He also strikes up a secret relationship with Magnus Bane, which he makes public in City of Glass. His preferred weapon is the bow but he has been known to use a featherstaff. * <strong>Isabelle Lightwood</strong>, Alec's sister, a beautiful and obnoxious Shadowhunter. She seems to have difficulty with romantic relationships, gravitating towards boys whom her parents disapprove of and quickly losing interest in them. Her favorite weapon is her whip which has caused the death of countless demons. In the series, she has short flings with Simon and a fey knight called Meliorn. * <strong>Max Lightwood</strong>, Max is the little brother in the Lightwood family. He is interested in reading and loves comics. He always felt left out of the group because he was only nine years old and unable to fight like his Shadowhunter brothers and sister. Max is killed by Sebastien in City of Glass. * <strong>Simon Lewis</strong>, Clary's formerly-human, vampire best friend, who has been in love with her for several years. Upon nearly dying in City of Ashes, he is saved by Jace who allows Simon to drink his blood. After that event, he is able to be in direct sunlight without any damage. Because of this, he is called a "Daylighter". * <strong>Luke Garroway</strong> (Lucian Graymark), Clary's mother's best friend, once a Shadowhunter, now a werewolf. * <strong>Magnus Bane</strong>, the High Warlock of Brooklyn, homosexual and in love with Alec. * <strong>Hodge Starkweather</strong>, Isabelle, Alec, and Jace's tutor, confined to the Institute after his role in the Uprising. He is in league with Valentine. Killed by Sebastian (Johnathon) in City of Glass. * <strong>Raphael</strong>, the Spanish-speaking temporary leader of the local vampire gang. * <strong>Jocelyn Morgenstern</strong> (née Fairchild), Clary's mother and a Shadowhunter in hiding who, although plays a big part in the story's plot, is unconscious for a large portion of the time. She is married to Valentine but fled from him when she found out how evil he really was. After coming to Brooklyn, she changed her name to Fray. * <strong>Maia</strong>, a teen member of Luke's werewolf pack. She appears for the first time in City of Ashes. It is implied that she and Simon may have a romantic interest in one another. * <strong>Sebastian Verlac</strong>, a Shadowhunter, who appears in City of Glass staying with his cousin, Aline. It is later learned that Sebastian is actually Clary's brother, Jonathan, and a spy for Valentine, posing as Sebastian Verlac. He is half demon and half Shadowhunter making him the first of a race of hybrids Valintine was trying to create. He is extremely strong and can accomplish amazing feats but is cold and heartless. He is supposedly killed by Jace but the body was never found. * <strong>Aline Penhallow</strong>, Sebastian's cousin, she is Isabelle's opposite, conservative on the subject of Downworlders, and seems to have a crush on Jace. * <strong>Amatis Herondale</strong>, Luke's sister, once married to Stephan Herondale. She lives in Alicante and serves as Clary's guardian in City of Glass. * <strong>Malachi</strong>, The Consul, he pretends he is on the Clave's side but turns out to be a spy for Valentine all along, he is killed when he tries to harm Valentine's raven Hugin.<!--spoiler--></span></div> <!--center--></div><!--center--></div><!--center--></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color:green">The Book Covers<!--color--></span></strong><!--center--></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong>City of Bones</strong><!--center--></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.boggnasker.dk/vbforum/members/andra-de-lioncourt-albums-mine-favorit-boger-picture1402-the-mortal-instruments-city-of-bones.jpg" border="0" /><!--center--></div><!--spoiler--></span></div><!--center--></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong>City of Ashes</strong><!--center--></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://marshajorelly.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/n244247.jpg" border="0" /><!--center--></div><!--spoiler--></span></div><!--center--></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong>City of Glass</strong><!--center--></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://library.loganutah.org/teens/reviews/covers/cityglass.jpg" border="0" /><!--center--></div><!--spoiler--></span></div> Movie Trailer <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.com/v/W07pIgxgEnc&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/W07pIgxgEnc&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><!--center--></div> <span style="font-size: 200%;">Affiliates~~ <!--link--><a href="http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=17910">Short Hair Fanclub</a> <!--size--></span>