Mortal Instruments 1: City of Bones

Cassandra Clare is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series, the Last Hours series, the Dark Artifices trilogy and the Infernal Devices trilogy. She is the co-author of the Eldest Curses series with Wesley Chu; The Shadowhunters' Codex with Joshua Lewis; The Bane Chronicles with Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson; Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy with Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson and Robin Wasserman; and Ghosts of the Shadow Market with Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, Kelly Link and Robin Wasserman. Her books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide and have been translated into more than 35 languages and made into a feature film and a TV show.

The perfect young adult novel. The tale of a shadowy underworld of elegant half-angel demons hunters in New York is thrilling. It’s romantic. The pages fly by. The characters leap off the page and into your heart. I aspire to write like this. And I want to fight like a Shadow Hunter