The City Of Bones Essay

“The City of Bones” by Cassandra Clare is the first instalment in the Mortal Instruments series. The book follows Clary Fray, a 15 year old artist who soon discovers that she is much more than that. Clary is at an underage nightclub, Pandemonium, when she witnesses what appears to her as a brutal murder in a storage closet. She runs for help, looking for someone to either arrest or fend off the criminals, when she discovers that she is the only person who can see them. These strangers are not human, they are part of the Nephilim, or Shadowhunters, and they boy they murdered was a demon. It is soon after this she discovers that she too is a Shadowhunter, and from there her life changed immensely. “The City of Bones” is an excellent portrayal of a variety of characters, an excellent writing style, and the workings of a wonderfully complex plot. Clary’s story begins at a nightclub, as previously stated, with her best friend, Simon (who we later …show more content…
I absolutely adore her voice in writing, but even more so her ability to describe a scene or person so effectively that not only can you see her stories come to life, but you see them in vibrant technicolor. “Girls tossed their long hair, boys swung their leather-clad hips, and bare skin glittered with sweat. Vitality just poured off them, waves of energy that filled him with a drunken dizziness. His lip curled. They didn’t know how lucky they were. They didn’t know what it was like to eke out life in a dead world, where the sun hung limp in the sky like a burned cinder. Their lives burned as brightly as candle flames — and were as easy to snuff out.” The way she can manage to have this effect in just a few adjectives and manage to not sound over-explanatory is something I deeply admire about her works. If I was to pick an author as a role model, Cassandra Clare would most definitely be at the top of my