Mortal Instruments

Mortal instruments by Cassandra Clare Theme: Action/adventure fantasy theme

Mortal Instrument is about a young girl whose mother has been hiding her true family history from her for over 15 almost 15 years. When she finds out about her family being big Shadow hunters, she freaks out, but when she finds out who her real father is, she has no response. When her father steals the golden cup from her family, she realizes what she has to do to protect her mother and her immortal friends and family.

               

Clary Fray begins seeing strange things, worrying her mother and her mother's friend Luke. Later at a nightclub with Simon, Clary sees Jace killing to her, and innocent man. Soon after she realizes she’s the only one who could see Jace and the now deceased man. Meanwhile, Jocelyn is abducted by two men, Emil and Samuel, but she is able to call Clary and warn her about someone named Valentine. Jocelyn drinks a potion putting her in a coma. Returning home, Clary finds her mother missing and is attacked by a demon. Jace appears and kills it. Jocelyn was also Shadow hunter, a warrior that slays demons, and Clary has inherited her powers, shadow hunting.

               

I would recommend this book to others if they enjoy action filled fantasy books. The book has many unexpected twists in turn during the rising action and falling action which makes it very interesting and definitely a page turner. I think if you have a lot of free time to sit down and read the book you should. Its very detailed and creates a great portion of imagery as you are reading each page. There is also now a movie out but I would recommend the books first! I would give this book an eight out of ten because I don’t read a lot and this was a really long book. 

Book Review by Alex H.