City of Bones

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Simon and Schuster, 14 apr 2009 - 512 pagina's
Discover this first installment of the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and “prepare to be hooked” (Entertainment Weekly).

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing -- not even a smear of blood -- to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know...

Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare's ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end.

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Pagina 438 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...
Pagina 225 - To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Pagina 23 - ... flights of oratory is it given to catch a glimpse of the last flutter of the standards of the retreating host, to hear the beat of their invisible wings, the sound of their mocking laughter, or the swell of angel music dying away in the distance. Far otherwise is it with the savage. To his imagination the world still teems with those motley beings whom a more sober philosophy has discarded. Fairies and goblins, ghosts and demons, still hover about him both waking and sleeping. They dog his footsteps,...
Pagina 225 - I fail to see what any of this has to do with me," she said in clipped tones, her head high, her chin thrust forward Bette Davis style.
Pagina 468 - She remarked, the instant she passed the door-way, "He was here yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that. Come, my child, let us not stay.
Pagina 12 - You'd better get out of here if you know what's good for you," a deep menacing voice rumbled from somewhere inside a nearby gas mask.
Pagina 125 - Thee utterly, Mother Kali! For I was born under an evil star, And one so born becomes, they say, the eater of his mother— Then: O Kali, my Mother full of Bliss! Enchantress of the almighty Shiva! In Thy delirious joy Thou dancest, clapping Thy hands together!.
Pagina 377 - But the protagonist, after this reflection that in the waste land of modern life even death is sterile— "I think we are in rats...

Over de auteur (2009)

Cassandra Clare is the author of the #1 New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Shadowhunter Chronicles. She is also the coauthor of the bestselling fantasy series Magisterium with Holly Black. The Shadowhunter Chronicles have been adapted as both a major motion picture and a television series. Her books have more than fifty million copies in print worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Cassandra lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and three fearsome cats. Visit her at CassandraClare.com. Learn more about the world of the Shadowhunters at Shadowhunters.com.

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