City of Ashes

The Mortal Instruments 2: City of Ashes By Cassandra Clare

This is the second book in the gripping Mortal Instruments series. In the first book Clary Fray finds out that her mother was once part of a hidden and paranormal world and that by blood she is one of the society of demon killers called Shadowhunters. This magical world does not only contain Shadowhunters, it also contains Wherewolves, Vampires, Faeries and Warlocks and all of these are put into the catergory of Downworlders. But unfortunatly this world has one more group of creatures and these are demons. All of the creatures in this society are living in the human world hiding out or disguising themselves. Once Clary comes to terms with this her and her new friends and fellow Shadowhunters Isabelle, Alec and Jace set out to find one of the The Mortal Instruments (these are magical items) before an evil Shadowhunter Valentine does. Through all the twists and turns of the book in the end Clary and Jace discover that they are both the children of Valentine and Jocelyn who was origianaly only known as Clarys mother. Valentine gets away with the Mortal Instrument and Clary and Jace find that he has been hiding their Mother and that she is in a terrible state where she will not wake up. In the second book Clary and Jace the now known sibling have to hold back the love they have felt since the first time they met, save their Mother and find Valentine before he can get to the second Mortal Instrument. The Mortal Instruments is an intense, deadly and darkly humorous series I would recomend to fans of the Hunger Games and Uglies series and others who like suspence and violence in books.