Thursday, March 25, 2021

Morton Library Teen News for April

 I know that a lot of you read the author, Cassandra Clare. Her books are checked out all the time!

Well if you want to read her books in order but don't know where to start, worry not, here are a few choices for you to choose from. But first off, let me tell you a little bit about the series.

     City of Bones is the first of three books in the young adult urban fantasy trilogy, The Mortal Instruments. City of Bones is about a fifteen-year-old girl named Clary Fray, whose search for her missing mother leads her into an alternate New York called Downworld, filled with mysterious faeries, hard-partying warlocks, not-what-they-seem vampires, an army of werewolves, and the demons who want to destroy it all. She also finds herself torn between two boys — her best friend, Simon, for whom she’s developing new feelings, and the mysterious demon hunter, Jace. She becomes a part of the secret world of the demon hunters or Nephilim, and as she does she discovers that rescuing her mother might mean putting their whole world in jeopardy. City of Bones is followed by the second book, City of Ashes, and the third, City of Glass. You can find all sorts of detailed information about these books on the Mortal Instruments website.

The first and best option is to read the Cassandra Clare books in this order (based on the order she suggests, updated by us):

  1. The Mortal Instruments, Part One
    1. City of Bones
    2. City of Ashes
    3. City of Glass
  2. The Eldest Curses, Part One
    1. The Red Scrolls of Magic 
  3. The Infernal Devices
    1. Clockwork Angel
    2. Clockwork Prince
    3. Clockwork Princess
  4. The Mortal Instruments, Part Two
    1. City of Fallen Angels
    2. City of Lost Souls
    3. City of Heavenly Fire
  5. The Bane Chronicles
  6. Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
  7. The Eldest Curses, Part Two
    1. The Lost Book of the White
  8. The Dark Artifices
    1. Lady Midnight
    2. Lord of Shadows
    3. Queen of Air and Darkness
  9. Ghosts of the Shadow Market
  10. The Last Hours
    1. Chain of Gold
    2. Chain of Iron (March 2021)
  11. The Shadowhunter’s Codex
  12. The second method is to read the Cassandra Clare books in order of each series. You can start at book #1 of any of these series (but this order is recommended):

    1. The Mortal Instruments
      1. City of Bones
      2. City of Ashes
      3. City of Glass
      4. City of Fallen Angels
      5. City of Lost Souls
      6. City of Heavenly Fire
    2. The Eldest Curses
      1. The Red Scrolls of Magic
      2. The Lost Book of the White
    3. The Infernal Devices
      1. Clockwork Angel
      2. Clockwork Prince
      3. Clockwork Princess
    4. The Dark Artifices
      1. Lady Midnight
      2. Lord of Shadows
      3. Queen of Air and Darkness
    5. The Last Hours
      1. Chain of Gold
      2. Chain of Iron
    6. Books not part of a series:
      1. The Bane Chronicles
      2. The Shadowhunter’s Codex
      3. Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
      4. Ghosts of the Shadow Market
      5. Whichever way you choose to read them is up to you but they are all a great read that you won't want to put down!

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